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Prostate Cancer Treatment With Nanomedicines Gets Boost With Funding Gift

The Prostate Cancer Foundation, largely through the generosity of David H. Koch, has given $5 million to four institutions, including Weill Cornell Medical College, to support novel research in prostate cancer. The gift ...

30 Jan 2008

Genetically Modified Food Poisoning Bacteria Could be Source of Future Energy

For most people, the name “E. coli” is synonymous with food poisoning and product recalls, but a professor in Texas A&M University’s chemical engineering department envisions the bacteria as a futur...

30 Jan 2008

Safety of Carbon Nanotubes in the Body Investigated to See if Carbon Nanotubes Build Up in Essential Organs

Carbon nanotubes-cylinders so tiny that it takes 50,000 lying side by side to equal the width of a human hair-are packed with the potential to be highly accurate vehicles for administering medicines and other therapeutic...

30 Jan 2008

Medical and Genetic Testing Using Cheap, Reliable Lab-On-A-Chip Testing Equipment

University of Alberta researchers in Edmonton, Canada, have developed a portable unit for genetic testing about the size of a shoebox, which has the same capability as a lab full of expensive equipment. The device &nd...

30 Jan 2008

Carbon Nanotube Based Drugs may Prevent Damage from Acute Radiation

More than half of those people who suffer acute radiation injury die within 30 days from the devastation they cause in the immune system. A new drug based on carbon nanotubes could protect against ionising radiation.

30 Jan 2008

Adhesive Developed that has Mastered the Mystery of the Sticky Gecko Foot That Can Easily Grip and Release Incredible Loads

Researchers have developed a directional adhesive, inspired by the gecko, using microfibers made from a hard polymer, polypropylene. The polymer fibers are 600 nanometers in diameter, just 1/100 the diameter of a human hair, and are formed by a casting process. Like the gecko, the synthetic microfiber array is not sticky except when fibers slide a small distance along a surface. While the present microfiber array works on smooth glass, future versions could be useful for medical equipment, sporting goods, or climbing robots where a directional and easy attach-release adhesive is needed.

30 Jan 2008

Surface Made of an Array of Nanonails Can Change Wettability at the Flick of a Switch

Sculpting a surface composed of tightly packed nanostructures that resemble tiny nails, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and their colleagues from Bell Laboratories have created a material that can repel almost any liquid.

30 Jan 2008

Mobile Telephone Set to Hit the Market Complete With Electronic Ink Screen

Hitachi is expecting to have available in March a new mobile phone for the Japanese market that comes complete with a 2.7 inch e-ink display.

30 Jan 2008

Nanoelectronics Collaboration to Develop Smart Power for the Future

AMI Semiconductor, a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art mixed-signal and digital products for the automotive, medical, industrial, aerospace, and high-voltage communication markets, has entered into a ...

29 Jan 2008

Toxin Detector to be Built with Grant Funding for NanoDynamics

NanoDynamics subsidiary ND Life Sciences announced its receipt of a two-year $350,000 Phase II SBIR contract from the National Institute of Environmental Health Services (NIEHS). The contract, which runs through Au...

29 Jan 2008

Workshop to Look at Advancing the Oil, Energy and Petroleum Industries with Nanotechnology

Epik Energy Solutions announced that it will present at the upcoming Society of Petroleum Engineers’ (SPE) “Nanotechnology in Upstream E&P: Nano-Scale Revolutions to Mega-Scale Challenges” applied t...

29 Jan 2008

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applied to Microscale Gas Phase Reactions may Improve Future Catalysts and Catalytic Reactors for Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawre...

29 Jan 2008

Nanotechnology News

Prostate Cancer Treatment With Nanomedicines Gets Boost With Funding Gift

Genetically Modified Food Poisoning Bacteria Could be Source of Future Energy

Safety of Carbon Nanotubes in the Body Investigated to See if Carbon Nanotubes Build Up in Essential Organs

Medical and Genetic Testing Using Cheap, Reliable Lab-On-A-Chip Testing Equipment

Carbon Nanotube Based Drugs may Prevent Damage from Acute Radiation

Adhesive Developed that has Mastered the Mystery of the Sticky Gecko Foot That Can Easily Grip and Release Incredible Loads

Surface Made of an Array of Nanonails Can Change Wettability at the Flick of a Switch

Mobile Telephone Set to Hit the Market Complete With Electronic Ink Screen

Nanoelectronics Collaboration to Develop Smart Power for the Future

Toxin Detector to be Built with Grant Funding for NanoDynamics

Workshop to Look at Advancing the Oil, Energy and Petroleum Industries with Nanotechnology

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applied to Microscale Gas Phase Reactions may Improve Future Catalysts and Catalytic Reactors for Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

First Steps Taken by the EPA to Address Nanotechnology Safety With More Action Required to Ensure Public Confidence

Microscopic Printing Process Ten Times Better Than Current Methods for Producing Printed Electronics

Solar Cells With Low Cost and High Efficiency May Arise From Breakthroughs With Nanowires

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