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New House bill in the U.S. addresses need for more nanotechnology risk research, oversight

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.

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Scientists develop a medical 'mini-submarine' to blast diseased cells in the body

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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Large-scale nuclear materials study shapes national collaborations

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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Organic solar cells are getting one step closer

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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Easy assembly of electronic biological chips with biologically tagged nanowires

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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Researchers demonstrate next generation cloaking device

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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Lab-in-a-cartridge for fast and accurate detection of cancer and infectious diseases

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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Single electron pump produces spin-polarized electrons on demand

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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Durchbruch in der Nano-Optik - Forschergruppe entwickelt weltweit neue Messmethode

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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How the sensory organs of bacteria function

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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Synthetic nanoparticles for noninvasive imaging of angiogenesis

Researchers have developed a novel synthetic nanoparticle developed for noninvasive imaging of angiogenesis.

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Physicists resolve a paradox of quantum theory

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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Nanotechnology in your vitamins

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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A crystal clear view of chalk formation

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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NanoKTN and The Wellcome Trust announce world leading experts as key speakers at Nano4Life

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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Zukunftskonferenz Nanotechnologie in Berlin

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.

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