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Argonne receives $29 million in additional Recovery Act funds for major facilities upgrades, research

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has received an additional $29.1 million in DOE Office of Science (SC) funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for a range of improvements and upgrades to major scientific facilities and other projects.

August 26, 2009 Read more

Golden nanotubes as imaging agents to detect cancer cells

Biomedical researchers have developed a special contrast-imaging agent that is capable of molecular mapping of lymphatic endothelial cells and detecting cancer metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes. The new material could be used as a more efficient and less toxic alternative to nanoparticles and fluorescent labels used in the non-invasive, targeted molecular detection of normal cells, such as immune-related cells, and abnormal cells, such as cancer cells and bacteria.

August 26, 2009 Read more

Singapore and Swiss institutes collaborate to boost microfluidics technology development

An outcome of the multi-disciplinary collaboration is the integrated use of microsystem and polymer technologies as well as solutions to realise more powerful and cost effective microfluidic devices for use in biomedical research and strategic industrial applications.

August 26, 2009 Read more

Tasty sandwich recipe for nanoelectronics researchers

Researchers have found a simple method of sandwiching organic molecules between silicon and metal, two materials fundamental to electronic components. By doing so, the team may have overcome one of the principal obstacles in creating switches made from individual molecules, which represent perhaps the ultimate in miniaturization for the electronics industry.

August 25, 2009 Read more

Safer, denser acetylene storage in an organic framework

A NIST research team has figured out why a recently discovered material can safely store at low pressure up to 100 times as much of acetylene as can be done with conventional methods

August 25, 2009 Read more

LEGO toy helps researchers learn what happens on nanoscale

Researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces shaped like pegs to re-create microscopic activity taking place inside lab-on-a-chip devices at a scale they can more easily observe.

August 25, 2009 Read more

New DNA test uses nanotechnology to find early signs of cancer

Using quantum dots, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a highly sensitive test to look for DNA attachments that often are early warning signs of cancer.

August 25, 2009 Read more

Northeastern's Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing receives $12m renewal grant

Northeastern University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Research Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a $12.25 million renewal grant from the National Science Foundation to continue its industry-leading research: translating nanoscale scientific processes into commercially viable technologies.

August 25, 2009 Read more

Major European science project to increase bioscience data handling capacity

The UK has made its first substantial commitment to a major emerging pan-European science project with a GBP10M investment by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

August 25, 2009 Read more

Hand-held device for point-of-care blood cell analysis

A hand-held device which could offer point-of-care blood cell analysis in doctors' surgeries is being developed by academics at the University of Southampton.

August 25, 2009 Read more

Nanotechnology-enabled consumer products database grows to over 1000

Over 1,000 nanotechnology-enabled products have been made available to consumers around the world, according to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN).

August 25, 2009 Read more

Potential drug delivery system into tissue uses nanoparticles

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a potential new drug delivery system. The finding is a biological mechanism for delivery of nanoparticles into tissue.

August 25, 2009 Read more

Expanded conference program announced for 8th Annual NanoBusiness 2009

The NanoBusiness Alliance today announced details of its expanded conference program for the 8th annual NanoBusiness 2009 conference and exhibition, which will held at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL, from September 8 - 10.

August 24, 2009 Read more

University of Houston gets $3.2m for a Comp-Tox Developmental Toxicity Center

The Texas Indiana Virtual STAR (TIVS) Center will contribute to the evolution of more reliable chemical risk assessments by developing high throughput in vitro and in silico screening models of developmental toxicity.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Remote-control closed system invented for inserting radioactive atoms inside fullerenes

Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry C. Dorn, Emory and Henry College chemistry Professor James Duchamp, and Panos Fatouros, professor and chair of the Division of Radiation Physics and Biology at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine have co-invented a hands-off process for filling fullerenes with radioactive material.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Putting a new model of quantum gravity under the microscope

Does an exciting but controversial new model of quantum gravity reproduce Einstein's theory of general relativity? Scientists at Texas A+M University in the US explore this question.

August 24, 2009 Read more