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'Heroes of Chemistry' for saving teeth, clean water, new high blood pressure drug

The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, puts unsung heroes like in the limelight once a year, and is announcing the newest inductees into its Heroes of Chemistry 'hall of scientific fame' that recognizes the achievements of chemists in industry.

August 16, 2009 Read more

California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute funded with $2.25M grant

Researchers at the University of California, Merced, and its sister campuses in Berkeley and Santa Barbara, will attempt to do just that thanks to a five-year $2.25 million grant that will fund a new UC-wide solar energy research program.

August 16, 2009 Read more

No data - no market? Challenges of nanotechnology information

Moving nanotechnology to market also involves addressing challenges regarding information and communication management. This year's 5th NanoRegulation Conference will bring together executive representatives from industry companies and associations, authorities, NGOs and politics to discuss how to add transparency to the black box of nanotechnologies.

August 14, 2009 Read more

Innovations-Briefing 'Smart Materials' an der Empa: Investition in intelligente Materialien lohnt sich

Das Thema 'Intelligente Materialien und Systeme' hat Zukunft - darueber sind sich Wissenschaftler und Politikerinnen einig. Deshalb lud die Foerderagentur fuer Innovation KTI zum Innovations-Briefing zum Thema 'Smart Materials'.

August 14, 2009 Read more

Nanowire and nanotube transistors for lab-on-a-chip applications

Nanostructures have the potential to transform the way we investigate life processes but only if we can find good ways to make them. Seunghun Hong, at Seoul National University, Korea, and colleagues discuss ways to integrate nanowires and nanotubes on chips.

August 14, 2009 Read more

Nanotechnology and occupational and environmental health

The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health is organizing the 4th International Conference on Nanotechnology - Occupational and Environmental Health on 26-29 August 2009 in Paasitorni, Helsinki, Finland.

August 14, 2009 Read more

Nanoelectronics research uses spintronics to revolutionize how computers work

The London Centre for Nanotechnology is leading two international projects to develop radically new approaches to miniaturising computer systems, which would require less energy and make data storage completely stable, among other benefits.

August 14, 2009 Read more

Sticky fingers? Tiny robots to grip nanotubes

How do you handle the tiny components needed for constructing nanoscale devices? A European consortium has built two microrobotic demonstrators that can automatically pick up and install carbon nanotubes thousands of times thinner than a human hair.

August 14, 2009 Read more

Bionanomachines: Proteins as resistance fighters

Scientists of Dresden BIOTEC and MPI-CBG measure drag/friction of single molecules.

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Raising the alarm when DNA goes bad

Scientists have known for a long time that when DNA is damaged, a key enzyme sets off a cellular 'alarm bell' to alert the cell to start the repair process. Researchers have now identified a whole family of proteins capable of a direct response to the alarm signal.

August 14, 2009 Read more

Harry Potter magic? Researchers create first tunable electromagnetic gateway

While the researchers can't promise delivery to a parallel universe or a school for wizards, books like Pullman's Dark Materials and JK Rowling's Harry Potter are steps closer to reality now that researchers in China have created the first tunable electromagnetic gateway.

August 14, 2009 Read more

Next meeting of the ANSI Nanotechnology Standards announced

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced that it will hold a meeting of its Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP) this September in Chicago, co-located with the NanoBusiness Alliance's Eighth Annual NanoBusiness Conference.

August 14, 2009 Read more

A tight fit helps energy transmit in artificial photosynthetic systems

Researchers in Japan have found a simple way to mimic the initial stage of photosynthesis by mechanically trapping a guest molecule inside a cage structure.

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Nanoelectronics team models single-molecule field-effect transistor

A diagram of the three-terminal single-molecule transistor looks like an elaborate necklace and pendant, made up of six-sided rings of carbon atoms bedecked with hydrogen and nitrogen atoms.

August 13, 2009 Read more

IMEC to demonstrate wireless bio-sensor healthcare systems at IEEE EMB conference

mproving medical monitoring and diagnosis through wearable bio-technology devices is IMEC's aim at Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference.

August 13, 2009 Read more

NCI leads effort to introduce more targeted cancer therapies as quickly as possible

A team of scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, and the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences will be working with the National Cancer Institute as part of a national effort to bring more targeted cancer therapies to patients as quickly as possible.

August 13, 2009 Read more