Can genetic information be controlled by light?
Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences.
Oct 13th, 2008
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Chemist Svile Bobev receives ACA Early Career Award for crystallographic research
Svilen Bobev, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware, has been selected to receive the 2009 Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award from the American Crystallographic Association (ACA).
Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreWorkshop on environmental nanoparticles on November 10-11
The University of Delaware will host 'Environmental Nanoparticles: Science, Ethics and Policy' on Nov. 10-11 at the John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center in Newark, Del. The registration deadline is Monday, Oct. 20.
Oct 12th, 2008
Read moreNanotechnology boosts war on superbugs
This week Nature Nanotechnology journal (October 12th) reveals how scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL are using a novel nanomechanical approach to investigate the workings of vancomycin, one of the few antibiotics that can be used to combat increasingly resistant infections such as MRSA.
Oct 12th, 2008
Read moreInternational photo exhibitions includes nanotechnology images
Acclaimed scientists and photographers from around the world will share their scientific research, discoveries and observations of natural wonders in an international photography exhibition opening today. The Rochester Institute's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences will host Images from Science 2 featuring 61 photographs from various scientific disciplines including astronomy, biology, engineering, medicine, oceanography, physics and nanotechnology.
Oct 11th, 2008
Read moreNew instrument puts new spin on superconducting materials
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy?s Ames Laboratory are part of collaborative team that?s used a brand new instrument at the DOE?s Spallation Neutron Source to probe iron-arsenic compounds, the 'hottest' new find in the race to explain and develop superconducting materials.
Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreCenter for Nanotechnology in Society helps land $24m center to study nanotechnology environmental impacts
The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California at Santa Barbara (CNS-UCSB) helped to win the new University of California Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN), a five-year, $24 million center co-funded by the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency to study the environmental impacts of nanotechnology.
Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreNanotechnology researchers create breakthroughs in single-electron device fabrication
In developmental breakthroughs, Materials Science and Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have created new single-electron device designs and processes that enable their fabrication on a large scale.
Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreNanoCareer Day offers students glimpse of careers in nanotechnology
Amid the growing number of nanotechnology-related career opportunities in the Capital Region and New York State, more than 300 elementary, middle- and high-school students got an inside look at the high-tech workplace of the future when they participated in NanoCareer Day held today at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany.
Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreTotally secure communication using quantum cryptography demonstrated in commercial network
On October 8th, secure communication using quantum cryptography was demonstrated for the first time in a commercial telecommunications network by SECOQC, an EU-funded project.
Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreNanowire disease detectors for point-of-care use
Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection.
Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreCopper catalyst recycles greenhouse gas
RIKEN chemists have developed a catalyst that should allow carbon dioxide to be used as a versatile synthetic chemical.
Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreIdentifying the molecular machinery required to halt immune cell activation
Researchers in Japan have identified part of the mechanism responsible for preventing prolonged - and potentially dangerous - activation of immune cells called T lymphocytes
Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreNew lens design allows subwavelength imaging in color
Researchers in Japan have developed a design concept for a device that allows imaging at scales previously impossible for optical instruments. Their advance is based on novel imaging techniques that allow optical imaging in the subwavelength regime, where the wavelength used is larger than the smallest features of the object being imaged.
Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreUAlbany NanoCollege to co-host National Technology Transfer Society Conference
'Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clusters' is the theme of the 2008 annual conference of the national Technology Transfer Society, to be co-hosted this month by the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and School of Business.
Oct 9th, 2008
Read moreMimicking gecko feet leads to new dry adhesive based on carbon nanotubes
The race for the best 'gecko foot' dry adhesive got a new competitor this week with a stronger and more practical material reported in the journal Science by a team of researchers from four U.S. institutions.
Oct 9th, 2008
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