For cancer drug developers, finding an agent that kills tumor cells is only part of the equation. The drug also must spare healthy cells, and ideally its effects will be reversible to cut short any potentially dangerous side effects. Investigators from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report that they have assembled a new cancer drug delivery system that, in cell culture, achieves all of the above.
Aug 28th, 2009
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The Finland-Japan Workshop on Nanophotonics and Related Technologies will take place on 28 August 2009 at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT).
Aug 28th, 2009
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Nanotechnologies are presented as providing unprecedented technological solutions, yet serous environmental risks and costs are being trivialised or ignored, the International Persistant Organic Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) argues in a new paper.
Aug 28th, 2009
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Associate Professor Lam Yeng Ming, a lecturer with the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), has been awarded one of the three inaugural L'Oreal Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowships 2009.
Aug 28th, 2009
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Was verbindet einen Lautsprecher, einen Sensor und drahtlose Energieuebertragung? Gemeinsam ist allen die Nutzung von Oberflaecheneffekten: Thermoakustische, kapazitive und induktive Effekte werden dabei durch Beschichtungen hervorgerufen oder kontrolliert.
Aug 28th, 2009
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Scientists in Singapore have been awarded S$27.5 million in research funding for 28 projects in four key areas of Sustainable Development, namely, Carbon Capture and Utilisation, BioEnergy and BioFuels, Sustainable Construction and Sustainable Materials.
Aug 28th, 2009
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The nervous system's circuitry is linked together via intercellular junctions known as synapses, and signal transmission across these connections depends on neurotransmitters?specific chemicals that directly deliver excitatory or inhibitory signals from one neuron to another. Scientists are now able to monitor receptor activity in living cells with unprecedented precision.
Aug 28th, 2009
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Electrospray-deposited polymer films can be used to make organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with better characteristics than those made from spin-coated films.
Aug 28th, 2009
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IBM scientists have been able to image the 'anatomy' - or chemical structure - inside a molecule with unprecedented resolution, using a complex technique known as noncontact atomic force microscopy.
Aug 28th, 2009
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A team of Brown University scientists has pinpointed why carbon nanotubes tend to block a critical signaling pathway in neurons. It's not the tubes, the team finds, but the metal catalysts used to form the tubes.
Aug 27th, 2009
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A hybrid of silicon nanocircuits and biological components that mimics some of the processes that control the passage of molecules into and out of cells has been created by a team of scientists from UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC Berkeley.
Aug 27th, 2009
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University of Iowa researchers have modified siRNA so that it can be injected into the bloodstream and impact targeted cells while producing fewer side effects.
Aug 27th, 2009
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Untersuchungen zeigen, dass Metallofullerene geordnete supramolekulare Strukturen mit unterschiedlichen Orientierungen ausbilden. Durch gezielte Manipulation dieser Orientierungen koennten Daten gespeichert und wieder ausgelesen werden.
Aug 27th, 2009
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Six project proposals from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have received research funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF), following its second call for proposals under the Proof of Concept (POC) scheme.
Aug 27th, 2009
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Materialwissenschaftler der Fachhochschule Muenster und ein Entwicklerteam der Evonik Degussa GmbH in Marl wollen mit neuartigen Nanopartikeln das Herstellungsverfahren von elektronischen Bauelementen revolutionieren.
Aug 27th, 2009
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The fourth international conference on 'Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials' will be held in Vienna, Austria from September 6 to 9, 2009.
Aug 27th, 2009
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