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Nano-vaccine beats cattle virus

A world-first cattle vaccine based on nanotechnology could provide protection from the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV), which costs the Australian cattle industry tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue each year.

May 5, 2011 Read more

Intel reinvents transistors using new 3-D structure for 22 nanometer chips

Intel Corporation today announced a significant breakthrough in the evolution of the transistor, the microscopic building block of modern electronics. For the first time since the invention of silicon transistors over 50 years ago, transistors using a three-dimensional structure will be put into high-volume manufacturing.

May 4, 2011 Read more

Nanotechnology roadmap links academia, industry, government

The Nanoinformatics 2020 Roadmap is the first broad-based nanotech community effort to attempt to comprehensively meet the needs and goals of nanoinformatics, which is the intersection of nanotechnology, computer science and data management.

May 4, 2011 Read more

Signpost for chemical snaps

Copper ions as morphogens for the formation of polymer films by click chemistry.

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Hitting target in cancer fight now easier with new nanoparticle platform

In a new study, UCLA scientists report that by using engineered mesoporous silica nanoparticles as delivery vehicles, they were able to achieve significant increases in the percentage of drug-carrying nanoparticles that reach and are retained at tumor sites.

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COIN hosts nanobiotechnology event on nanomedicines and the regulatory path

The Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN) today announced the upcoming NanoBio Executive Roundtable event to be hosted at RTP Foundation in Durham, NC on May 17, 2011. This Roundtable will tackle regulatory issues surrounding nanomedicine commercialization.

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Revolutionary new paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets

The world's first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing.

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Nokia's Morph nanotechnology concept device to benefit from graphene (w/video)

Without the new materials, i.e. new structures enabled by the novel materials and manufacturing methods it would be impossible to build a Morph kind of device. Graphene has an important role in different components of the new device and the ecosystem needed to make the gateway and context awareness possible in an energy efficient way.

May 4, 2011 Read more

European Commission funds 10-year, 1,000 million euro coordination action on graphene

A coordination action on graphene (GRAPHENE-CA) will be funded by the European Commission to develop plans for a 10-year, 1,000 million euro FET flagship. This is an ambitious, large-scale visionary research initiative, aiming at a breakthrough for technological innovation and economic exploitation based on graphene and related two-dimensional materials.

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Researchers create novel nanoantennas

An international team of plasmonics researchers has developed a novel type of nanoantenna that could one day lead to advances in security applications for the detection of drugs and explosives.

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Waking up the immune system to fight cancer with nanoparticle drug delivery

UCLA scientists have discovered a way to wake up the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system-stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into lung cancer tumors, harnessing the body's natural defenses to fight disease growth.

May 3, 2011 Read more

Researchers develop technique for measuring stressed molecules in cells

Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have helped develop a new technique for studying how proteins respond to physical stress and have applied it to better understand the stability-granting structures in normal and mutated red blood cells.

May 3, 2011 Read more

Synthetic hydrogels improve testing of active substances in 3-D cell culture

The life science company Cellendes in Germany has developed synthetic hydrogels that make it possible to culture cells in three-dimensional environments. Their invention has fundamental advantages over other hydrogels for three-dimensional cultivation, also on the market.

May 3, 2011 Read more

Inexpensive, easy-to-use cotton candy-like glass nanofibers appear to speed healing in initial venous stasis wound trial

Imagine a battlefield medic or emergency medical technician providing first aid with a special wad of cottony glass fibers that simultaneously slows bleeding, fights bacteria (and other sources of infection), stimulates the body's natural healing mechanisms, resists scarring, and-because it is quickly absorbed by surrounding tissue - may never have to be removed in follow-up care.

May 3, 2011 Read more

Nature of bonding determines thermal conductivity

Optical data carriers such as DVDs, Blu-rays and CD-RWs store data in layers of so-called "phase change materials". In the future, these materials will enable the development of fast, non-volatile and energy-saving main memories. A prerequisite for this is a low thermal conductivity. Phase change materials display a surprisingly low thermal conductivity even in the crystalline state.

May 3, 2011 Read more

Physicists create ultracold designer atom

Synthetic quantum system to improve understanding of fundamental few-body systems.

May 3, 2011 Read more