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PET Scanning Tracks Injected Quantum Dots

A wide variety of experiments have shown that nanoscale quantum dots have the potential to detect early-stage cancer and even monitor the progress of anticancer therapies. But a new study from a team of investigators...

28 Sep 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Have Room for Multifunctionality

In the quest to turn carbon nanotubes from nanoscale wonder into clinically useful drug and imaging agent delivery agents, researchers have often added polymer coatings to the outside of the nanotubes in order to render ...

28 Sep 2007

Gold Nanorods Image Tumors

A growing body of research has demonstrated that gold nanorods can serve as extremely bright imaging agents. Now, by linking gold nanorods to an antibody that binds to tumor cells, researchers at the Georgia Institut...

28 Sep 2007

Nanoparticles Yield Safer Light-Activated Cancer Therapy

Photodynamic therapy, in which light activates a chemical known as a photosensitizer, triggering the production of cell-killing reactive oxygen, has proven itself as an effective therapy for a limited number of cancers. ...

28 Sep 2007

Farfield Scientific Director Wins Prestigious Award

More than 700 of the North West's business elite gathered together at the IoD North West Director of the Year Awards where Dr Simon Carrington of Farfield Scientific Ltd. won the coveted Institute of Directors title ...

28 Sep 2007

Surrey Nanosystems Win Award for Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Tool

Surrey NanoSystems, a spinout from The University of Surrey which has developed a tool for manufacturing carbon nanotubes, has been recognised by an awards scheme that follows ground-breaking research by UK universities ...

From Surrey Nanosystems 28 Sep 2007

Using Bacteria Enzymes to Print Features on Microdevices 100 Fold Smaller Than Before

Using enzymes from E. coli bacteria, Duke University chemists and engineers have introduced a hundred-fold improvement in the precision of features imprinted to create microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip. Their inkles...

27 Sep 2007

Template for Creating One Molecule Wide Wires for Crafting Molecular Level Organic Semiconductors Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

Researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh have created the best method so far of assembling wire-like structures only a single molecule wide, a significant step in science's increasing attempts to reduce the ...

27 Sep 2007

Blending Semiconductors Chip Technology and Nanomachines by Building Atom by Atom

With the help of a device capable of depositing metals an atom at a time in the materials used in computer chips, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has successfully blended modern semiconductor technolo...

27 Sep 2007

Superconducting Quantum Computing Cable Demonstrated by NIST

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have transferred information between two “artificial atoms” by way of electronic vibrations on a microfabricated aluminum cable, demonst...

27 Sep 2007

Yale Researchers Make Giant Steps Towards Quantum Computing

Two major steps toward putting quantum computers into real practice - sending a photon signal on demand from a qubit onto wires and transmitting the signal to a second, distant qubit - have been brought about by a team o...

27 Sep 2007

University Of Alabama and Imago Scientific Instruments have Announced Plans to Establish a New Research Facility for Atom Probe Tomography

The University of Alabama and Imago Scientific Instruments® announced plans to establish a new research facility for atom probe tomography. LEAP® microscopy, also known as atom-probe tomography, provides very ...

27 Sep 2007

Nanotechnology Medicine Breakthroughs to Be Reported by Mayo Clinic Engineer

The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota is sending Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Biomedical Engineering, to report on his findings at nanoTX’07. ...

27 Sep 2007

PI Releases New Brochure on Miniature Precision Linear Stages with Servo Motors, Steppers, Piezo Motors and Voice Coil Drives

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision motion-control and sensing equipment for bio / nanotechnology, photonics, semiconductor and life science applications - offers a new brochure o...

27 Sep 2007

Chemical Detection System from NANOIDENT Scoops Technology Innovation Award

BIOIDENT Technologies Inc., the leading company in the development of printed opto-electronic solutions for life sciences, today announced that the company is a co-winner in the semiconductor category for the seventh ann...

27 Sep 2007

Nanotechnology News

PET Scanning Tracks Injected Quantum Dots

Carbon Nanotubes Have Room for Multifunctionality

Gold Nanorods Image Tumors

Nanoparticles Yield Safer Light-Activated Cancer Therapy

Farfield Scientific Director Wins Prestigious Award

Surrey Nanosystems Win Award for Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Tool

Using Bacteria Enzymes to Print Features on Microdevices 100 Fold Smaller Than Before

Template for Creating One Molecule Wide Wires for Crafting Molecular Level Organic Semiconductors Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

Blending Semiconductors Chip Technology and Nanomachines by Building Atom by Atom

Superconducting Quantum Computing Cable Demonstrated by NIST

Yale Researchers Make Giant Steps Towards Quantum Computing

University Of Alabama and Imago Scientific Instruments have Announced Plans to Establish a New Research Facility for Atom Probe Tomography

Nanotechnology Medicine Breakthroughs to Be Reported by Mayo Clinic Engineer

PI Releases New Brochure on Miniature Precision Linear Stages with Servo Motors, Steppers, Piezo Motors and Voice Coil Drives

Chemical Detection System from NANOIDENT Scoops Technology Innovation Award

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