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Targeted nanoparticles incorporating siRNA offer promise for cancer treatment

Researchers have been using small interfering RNA (siRNA), sometimes known as silencing RNA, to "silence" specific genes that are implicated in certain malignancies.

May 20, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology water desalination for Australia

The delivery of energy efficient desalination in Australia received a boost with the establishment of a major new research collaboration between CSIRO and nine of Australia's leading universities.

May 19, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology supercomputing center

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offered the first glimpse of what is planned to be the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center.

May 19, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology pasta: Toward nanoscale electronics

Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic properties than their non-spiraling cousins.

May 18, 2007 Read more

Tunable photonics with high refractive index

Scientists in Hong Kong have created a polymer with a refractive index that can be tuned as high as 1.81

May 18, 2007 Read more

CAS reports progress in developing nanotechnology data storage

New advancements have been scored by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) scientists on ultrahigh-density information storage as they successfully carried out the reversible, erasable and rewritable nanorecording on H2 thin films of rotaxane

May 18, 2007 Read more

Europe races ahead of US in university-industry collaboration

A Europe-wide survey has found that European collaboration between industry and universities exceeds that of the US.

May 18, 2007 Read more

Report accuses government of gross failure in protecting public from nanotechnology

A report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) accuses the U.S. government of gross failure to use its authority to protect citizens from the potentially dangerous effects of nano-scale chemistry.

May 18, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology timelines and mapviews in Google Experimental

New, experimental Google Search features Timeline and Map Views use nanotechnology as example.

May 17, 2007 Read more

Commercializing university research - Hopping robots, liquid shoes, electricity from heat

A not-so-whacky university-based center for entrepreneurism has funded some, well, somewhat unusual research projects that actually may have commercial potential.

May 17, 2007 Read more

Solutions emerging for wafer cleaning at 45 nm and beyond

Potential solutions are starting to emerge for preparing wafers for manufacturing at and beyond the 45 nm technology generation, technologists indicated at a recent industry meeting.

May 17, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology fingerprint analysis could replace blood sample

British scientists want to make it possible to use fingerprints to reveal drug and doping transgressions and to diagnose diseases.

May 17, 2007 Read more

UK publishes report on environmental benefits of nanotechnology

The 'Environmentally Beneficial Nanotechnologies: Barriers and Opportunities', a new report by the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), was published today.

May 17, 2007 Read more

Making strides in quantum dot infrared photodetectors

Researchers have made significant strides in the development of quantum dot infrared photodetectors -- technology that may provide new imaging techniques with applications in medical and biological imaging, environmental and chemical monitoring, night vision and infrared imaging from space.

May 17, 2007 Read more

Carbon nanotubes aerogels capable of supporting 8,000 times their own weight

Physicists develop a carbon nanotube aeroegel optimizing strength, shape and conductivity.

May 16, 2007 Read more

Growing nanoparticles from the inside out

Gold particles have been grown inside silica nanoshells in an inside out approach to synthesis.

May 16, 2007 Read more