The House Science and Technology Committee today introduced legislation that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.
Jan 15th, 2009
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Ever since the 1966 Hollywood movie, doctors have imagined a real-life Fantastic Voyage a medical vehicle shrunk small enough to 'submarine' in and fix faulty cells in the body. Thanks to new research by Tel Aviv University scientists, that reality may be only three years away.
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The study, which includes about 20 different materials, could help researchers choose materials for the ultra-efficient nuclear reactors now under development.
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Inexpensive solar cells, vastly improved medical imaging techniques and lighter and more flexible television screens are among the potential applications envisioned for organic electronics.
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A handheld, ultra-portable device that can recognize and immediately report on a wide variety of environmental or medical compounds may eventually be possible, using a method that incorporates a mixture of biologically tagged nanowires onto integrated circuit chips, according to Penn State researchers.
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After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype in 2006, a team of Duke University engineers has produced a new type of cloaking device, which is significantly more sophisticated at cloaking in a broad range of frequencies.
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Rapid, easy and affordable tests for cancer, avian flu and other infectious diseases move a step closer to patients as DYAMED Biotech Pte Ltd (Dyamed) licenses a unique all-inone automated diagnostic system called MicroKit from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore.
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Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits.
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Wissenschaftlern ist es zum ersten Mal gelungen, die Verteilung von Oberflaechenplasmonen - das sind elektronische Dichteschwankungen an der Oberflaeche von Metallen - auf Gold-Nanoteilchen mit Energiefilterungs-Elektronenmikroskopie zu messen.
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Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz are currently investigating how bacteria manage to pass information on their environment across their membranes into their cell nuclei.
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Researchers have developed a novel synthetic nanoparticle developed for noninvasive imaging of angiogenesis.
Jan 14th, 2009
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University of Toronto quantum physicists Jeff Lundeen and Aephraim Steinberg have shown that Hardy's paradox, a proposal that has confounded physicists for over a decade, can be confirmed and ultimately resolved, a task which had seemingly been impossible to perform.
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The ability of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the safety of dietary supplements using nanomaterials is severely limited by lack of information, lack of resources and the agency's lack of statutory authority in certain critical areas, according to a new expert report released by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN).
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Researchers investigated the crystallization of calcium carbonate, known commonly as chalk, and found that stable nanoclusters form in water with a small quantity of dissolved calcium carbonate - not how it was assumed to happen in the past.
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Representatives from GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, University of Glasgow, Imperial College London and the London Centre for Nanotechnology come together to discuss the increasingly important convergence of Nanotechnology and Life Sciences in London on 11th February
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Am 19. Februar 2009 treffen Experten aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft in Berlin aufeinander, um die heute schon bedeutende Rolle der Nanotechnologie in der ostdeutschen Forschungs- und Wirtschaftslandschaft zu diskutieren.
Jan 14th, 2009
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