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Conference: 21st Century Medicine: Breakthroughs and Challenges

The Institute of Nanotechnology in the UK is organizing a conference '21st Century Medicine: Breakthroughs and Challenges' being held on November 26-27, 2008 at The Royal Institute of British Architects, London.

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The 'wall paper mystery' explained by physicists

When you try to remove adhesive paper from a surface, you inevitably get a pointy flap, while what you want is to remove the entire piece. A team from the Laboratoire de physique et mecanique des milieux heterogenes, collaborating with the University of Santiago in Chile and with MIT, has explained the physics behind this frustrating experience.

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Lasers and milk: The common denominator

Researchers at Yale University have extended the conventional laser theory such that it can be applied to random lasers, one of the most exotic type of lasers in existence, as well.

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Test of maturity for stem cells

Stem cells can differentiate into 220 different types of body cell. The development of these cells can now be systematically observed and investigated with the aid of two new machines that imitate the conditions in the human body with unprecedented accuracy.

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University of Colorado wins $1.5 million contract to aid In cooling of electronic devices

A University of Colorado at Boulder research center has won a $1.5 million contract with its long-time partner Lockheed Martin Corp. to demonstrate new micro- and nanotechnologies that promise to significantly improve thermal management in electronic devices, one of the critical constraints on today's consumer and military electronic systems.

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IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin wins IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award

At the IEEE International Magnetics Conference today in Madrid, IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin received the Daniel E. Noble Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of magneto-resistive devices for non-volatile, high density, random access memory.

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Nano2Life Annual Meeting in Crete

About 100 researchers from the nanobiotechnology network Nano2Life coming from 12 EU Member States or Associated Countries are expected to attend the last Nano2Life conference to be held in Heraklion, Crete, on June, 25?27.

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Researchers target tumors with tiny 'nanoworms'

Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed nanometer-sized 'nanoworms' that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body?s immune defense system and - like tiny anti-cancer missiles - home in on tumors.

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NJIT applauds students for studies on brain injury, glaucoma and more

A better understanding of brain injury, a way to rejuvenate dead nerve endings and a device allowing patients to monitor their glaucoma at home, number among this year's nine winners at New Jersey Institute of Technology?s annual provost?s student research day.

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Lab in a drop

Lab-on-a-chip to the extreme: pocket-sized PCR rapid test including sample preparation.

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$3.5 million to foster nanotechnology research and development in Pennsylvania

The Nanotechnology Institute, a consortium of Philadelphia-area research and technology organizations that includes the University of Pennsylvania, has received $3.5 million in funding from the Commonwealth's Pennsylvania Initiative for Nanotechnology.

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Gordon speaks to NanoBusiness Alliance regarding the Committee's work on nanotechnology reauthorization

Today, House Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon spoke at the NanoBusiness 2008 Conference regarding advancement of nanotechnology.

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AeA, UAlbany NanoCollege announce line-up of leading executives to speak at CIRCA '08 conference

?Open Innovation of Nanotechnology in the Adjacent Markets of Transportation, Energy and Security' is theme for Convergence of International Research and Commercialization

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Korea, Japan und Deutschland bilden Konsortium fuer Mikro- und Nanotechik

Die koreanische Nano Technology Research Association (NTRA), die japanische Organisation ICS und der deutsche Mikro- und Nanotechnik-Verband IVAM haben auf dem 14. World MicroMachine Summit in Daejeon, Korea, jetzt ein Abkommen fuer eine engere Zusammenarbeit und den Austausch von Informationen unterzeichnet.

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Nanosurgery on a specially designed microchip reveals anesthetics interfere with nerve regeneration process

A hair strand-thin worm is providing substantial clues on how nerves regenerate, offering insight and hope to finding genes that affect nerve generation and ultimately new drugs and therapies for human neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.

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Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors

Rresearchers in the University of Warwick?s Department of Chemistry have found a way of producing carbon nanotubes in which they instantly form a highly sensitive ready made electric circuit.

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