UMass Amherst is host to a new nanomedicine institute focused on developing super-tiny structures for biomedical research. Work will focus on engineering fluorescent nanostructures for tagging proteins, engineering magnetic nanoparticles to remove pathogens from blood; and developing biodegradable nanostructures for fighting the malaria parasite.
Nov 19th, 2007
Read moreThe National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is announcing a new funding opportunity to support individual research projects as part of the Superfund Basic Research and Training Program (SBRP).
Nov 19th, 2007
Read moreDuPont has conducted three demonstration projects in order to evaluate the comprehensiveness, practicality, and flexibility of the Nano Risk Framework.
Nov 19th, 2007
Read moreThe Conference will discuss global safety issues surrounding nanoparticles and nanotechnologies, in occupational safety and health in particular; and will provide an insight into future actions for assuring the safety, and thereby the future success of nanotechnology.
Nov 17th, 2007
Read moreThe technique would allow the use of light rather than electrons to store memory in devices such as computers, enabling an increase in operating capacity of 1,000% by using light�??s broad spectrum rather than single electrons. Slow light could also be used to increase the speed of optical networks, such as the Internet.
Nov 17th, 2007
Read moreThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kaguya (Selene) lunar explorer took an amazing video last week of the Earth rising and setting over the moon's horizon.
Nov 16th, 2007
Read moreRapid advances in biofuel research and development are being driven by concerns about the environment and the need for renewable fuels, according to top industry and government officials from China, Canada, the United States and Hawaii attending the second annual Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy.
Nov 16th, 2007
Read moreMIT scientists have devised remotely controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field, release drugs to attack tumors.
Nov 16th, 2007
Read moreSurrey NanoSystems, a joint venture between the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute and CEVP Ltd, is currently building its third NanoGrowth system for fabricating carbon nanotube structures, and is rapidly commercializing its technology.
Nov 16th, 2007
Read moreSome people want to move mountains. Kunal Das, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, wants to move electrons.
Nov 16th, 2007
Read moreA discovery of a new way to manipulate light a million times more efficiently than before is announced in the journal Science this week.
Nov 16th, 2007
Read moreWorld-renowned materials science expert Robert Hull will join Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in early 2008 to head the School of Engineering's Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Nov 16th, 2007
Read morePhiladelphia's Central High will be the nation's first high school to gain access to nanoscale (inner space) exploration with a new Phenom microscope donated by FEI Company.
Nov 15th, 2007
Read moreSafeway Inc. and the Prostate Cancer Foundation today announced they will collectively donate $6 million to fund the S.T.A.R. Program (for Special Team Amplification of Research), an innovative research initiative focused on exploring the role of targeted heat in cancer therapy to treat prostate cancer, as well as other research strategies.
Nov 15th, 2007
Read moreScientists are closer to developing novel devices for optics-based quantum computing and quantum information processing, as a result of a breakthrough in understanding how to make all the spins in an ensemble of quantum dots identical.
Nov 15th, 2007
Read moreThe Academy of Sciences for the Developing World has announced the winners of the TWAS Prizes for 2007.
Nov 15th, 2007
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