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Aspirin plus co - organometallic compounds as new drugs?

Despite considerable progress in modern chemotherapy, there remains a large demand for innovative anti-tumor agents. A new approach involves modeling the pharmacological properties of established drugs with organometallic fragments.

January 14, 2009 Read more

New guidelines open up the potential of molecular diagnostics

A new EU-funded research project is set to lead the way in creating top-quality healthcare standards for in vitro diagnostics, an area of medicine that could be of vital importance to personalised medicine.

January 13, 2009 Read more

Simply weird stuff: Making supersolids with ultracold gas atoms

Physicists have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold 'boson' atoms - the ingredients of Bose-Einstein condensates - into a 'supersolid', an exotic state of matter that behaves simultaneously as a solid and a friction-free superfluid.

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Insights into polymer film instability could aid high-tech industries

While exploring the properties of polymer formation, a team of scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has made a fundamental discovery about these materials that could improve methods of creating the stable crystalline films that are widely used in electronics applications.

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Super sensitive gas detector goes down the nanotubes

Researchers at NIST describe a new method for creating gas detectors so sensitive that some day they may be able to register these tiny emissions from a single cell, providing a new way to determine if drugs or nanoparticles harm cells or to study how cells communicate with one another.

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'Two-faced' bioacids put a new face on carbon nanotube self-assembly

A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Rice University offers an inexpensive process that gets nanotubes to obediently line themselves up - that is, self-assemble - in neat rows, more like ducks.

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New tool gives researchers a glimpse of biomolecules in motion

Using a new technique based on terahertz (THz) spectroscopy, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently taken the first step toward revealing the hidden machinations of biomolecules in water.

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Lack of thermoelectric effect is cool feature in carbon nanotubes

Recent experiments have shown the absence of the thermoelectric effect in metallic carbon nanotubes. Building upon earlier theoretical work, researchers at the University of Illinois say they can explain this peculiar behavior, and put it to good use.

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Magnetic nanotubes could lead to treatment for neurodegenerative disorders

Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have demonstrated that magnetic nanotubes combined with nerve growth factor can enable specific cells to differentiate into neurons.

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Curved photodetectors with nanomembranes sharpen images

Researchers have developed a flexible light-sensitive material that could revolutionize photography and other imaging technologies.

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LLNL and Chevron to develop the next generation of fuel catalysts

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has signed a research agreement with Chevron to develop the next generation of catalysts for production of clean, more efficient fuels from crude oil.

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EPA's voluntary approach captures only a thin slice of nanomaterials in the U.S.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has acknowledged that its voluntary approach to reporting has yielded only limited information on a small fraction of the hundreds of potentially toxic nanomaterials already in commercial use or in development in the United States, according to Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

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New application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in (nano)gold

Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.

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U.S. Department of Energy kicks off 19th National Science Bowl

Thousands of high school and middle school students begin a journey this month that they hope will take them to the finals of the U.S. Department of Energy?s (DOE) annual National Science Bowl, America?s largest and most prestigious science competition for middle and high school students.

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Photonic crystals enable precise control of terahertz cascade lasers

Researchers have used photonic crystals to control a terahertz cascade laser beam and considerably restrict its divergence.

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Seven innovative Canadian biosensor projects receive $2.65 million in funding

NanoQuebec, the Canadian Space Agency and the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations announce the projects selected for support from the Support Program for Integrative Biosensor Research.

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