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Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy One Hundred Times Faster With New Technique

Using an existing technique in a novel way, Cornell physicist Keith Schwab and colleagues at Cornell and Boston University have made the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) - which can image individual atoms on a surface...

9 Nov 2007

Off the Shelf Camera and High Tech Custom Equipment Team Up to Produce Images of Proton Radiactive Decay

Radioactivity, discovered more than 100 years ago and studied by physicists ever since, would seem to be a relatively closed subject in science. However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open question about h...

9 Nov 2007

Risks of Nanotechnology Addressed in New Blog

Are nanoparticles safe to breathe? Do carbon nanotubes behave like asbestos? What does the public think about nanotechnology's risk-benefit trade-offs? You can find the answers to these questions and more in an exciti...

9 Nov 2007

Nanoelectronic Biosensors Detecting and Treating Deadly Staphylococcus Aureus, Golden Staph

University of Idaho researchers are crossing academic and geographical bounds to develop more effective defenses against Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and other deadly pathogens. One of the goals of that effort is to...

9 Nov 2007

Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network to be Managed by Cenamps

Cenamps, a national centre for emerging technologies, has secured a major contract to manage the newly created ‘Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network’ (KTN), funded by the Government’s Technology St...

9 Nov 2007

Nanoscale Heat Transistor Fabricated Using Electron Beam Lithography

A Finnish group of researchers at the Low Temperature Laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) have developed and fabricated a nanoscale heat transistor, and simultaneously the smallest refrigerator ever mad...

9 Nov 2007

Farfield Scientific Supply AnaLight Instrument to High Profile Chinese Laboratory

Farfield Scientific is proud to announce a key sale and installation in China. The instrument has been installed in the group of Prof. Xiurong Yang, Head Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Electro-analytical Chemis...

9 Nov 2007

Molecular Level Nanoelectronics a Step Closer to Reality With DNA Nanowire Research

Biological and physical studies on DNA structure have revealed considerable interest into the electronic properties of DNA. Part of this interest is in using DNA as the basis for forming minute nanowires for use in ultra...

8 Nov 2007

Innovations in Medicine and Business Models, Financing and Risk to be Discussed at Nanotechnology Conference

Nanotechnology is redefining fields like imaging, diagnosis, drug delivery, regenerative medicine and biomaterials as well as underpinning the development of new generations of medical products. Many of these advances wi...

8 Nov 2007

Nanoparticle Images and Treats Cancer, Reports on Drug Delivery

Using a quantum dot plus an aptamer that doubles as a tether for the anticancer drug doxorubicin, a team of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excelle...

8 Nov 2007

Oligonucleotides Create Versatile Coating for Nanoscale Imaging Agents

Nanoparticles made of metals such as gold or iron oxide show tremendous promise as contrast agents for molecular imaging, but turning promise into clinical utility requires adding tumor targeting molecules to the surface...

8 Nov 2007

Mining Tiny Diamonds for Drug Delivery

Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds are effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs to cells without the negative effects associated with current drug delivery agents. Their study, publish...

8 Nov 2007

Implantable Microfluidic Device Could Detect Cancer Markers

A tiny implant now being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could one day help doctors rapidly monitor the growth of tumors and the progress of chemotherapy in cancer patients. The implant, ...

8 Nov 2007

Tracking Targeted siRNA Nanoparticles With In Vivo Imaging

Using nanoparticles tagged with both a fluorescent label and a radioactive isotope of the element copper, a team of investigators at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has shown that targeting siRNA-contain...

8 Nov 2007

Remote Magnetic Field Triggers Nanoparticle Drug Release

Magnetic nanoparticles heated by a remote magnetic field have the potential to release multiple anticancer drugs on demand at the site of a tumor, according to a study published in the journal Advanced Materials. Moreove...

8 Nov 2007

Nanotechnology News

Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy One Hundred Times Faster With New Technique

Off the Shelf Camera and High Tech Custom Equipment Team Up to Produce Images of Proton Radiactive Decay

Risks of Nanotechnology Addressed in New Blog

Nanoelectronic Biosensors Detecting and Treating Deadly Staphylococcus Aureus, Golden Staph

Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network to be Managed by Cenamps

Nanoscale Heat Transistor Fabricated Using Electron Beam Lithography

Farfield Scientific Supply AnaLight Instrument to High Profile Chinese Laboratory

Molecular Level Nanoelectronics a Step Closer to Reality With DNA Nanowire Research

Innovations in Medicine and Business Models, Financing and Risk to be Discussed at Nanotechnology Conference

Nanoparticle Images and Treats Cancer, Reports on Drug Delivery

Oligonucleotides Create Versatile Coating for Nanoscale Imaging Agents

Mining Tiny Diamonds for Drug Delivery

Implantable Microfluidic Device Could Detect Cancer Markers

Tracking Targeted siRNA Nanoparticles With In Vivo Imaging

Remote Magnetic Field Triggers Nanoparticle Drug Release

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