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Nanoparticle Treatment Being Tested on Stage 4 Lung Cancer Patients

A cancer-suppressing gene has been successfully delivered into the tumors of stage 4 lung cancer patients via an intravenously administered lipid nanoparticle in a phase I clinical trial at The University of Texas M. D. ...

26 Apr 2007

Nanotechnology to Revolutionise Medical Diagnostic Testing

University of Queensland researchers are using nanotechnology to revolutionise medical diagnostic testing of diseases such as cervical cancer. Dr Simon Corrie, from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering &a...

26 Apr 2007

Water Behaves Like Molasses at The Nanoscale

A Georgia Tech research team has discovered that water exhibits very different properties when it is confined to channels less than two nanometers wide – behaving much like a viscous fluid with a viscosity approach...

26 Apr 2007

mPhase Technology Set to Transform Homeland Security

mPhase Technologies, Inc., today said that the new subsidiary it announced last week, AlwaysReady, Inc. is poised to transform homeland security, among other markets. The combination of the sensitivity of the company&...

From MyPebble 26 Apr 2007

Nano-Sized Compounds with Properties of Many Different Metals

The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie, the journal of the German Society of Che...

25 Apr 2007

Using the Internet to Debate Whether the Benefits of Nanotechnoplogy Outweigh the Costs

Governments, academics and commercial bodies are all waiting to see if developments in nanotechnology will cause the same uproar as that generated by the biotech industry. A University of Leicester academic, Professor...

25 Apr 2007

Nano Chemical Systems Launch Biodegradable Marine Oil

Nano Chemical Systems Holdings, Inc., announced today their latest entry into the multi-billion dollar performance chemical category, NANOILMARINE(TM), a "nano-enhanced" GREEN 2-cycle oil for use on marine appl...

25 Apr 2007

Hiden Analytical Add Pulsed Chemisorption to CATLAB Range

Hiden Analytical have added a pulsed chemisorption option to their CATLAB range of combined microreactor-mass spectrometer systems. The new CATLAB-PCS now provides for gas uptake measurements, adsorption isotherms and di...

From Hiden Analytical 25 Apr 2007

BudgetSensors Introduces AFM Probes with Magnetic Coating

BudgetSensors®, a Bulgarian manufacturer of silicon and silicon nitride probes, as well as AFM accessories for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), announces the launch of a new product type - the magnetic AFM probe Multi...

25 Apr 2007

NanoVic Art in Nanotechnology Prizes Awarded at 5th World Conference of Science Journalists

Nanotechnology Victoria will announce the winners of its inaugural prizes for Art in Nanotechnology during the 5th World Conference of Science Journalists on Thursday 19th April at 10:20 am. The prizes were established t...

24 Apr 2007

Sensitive Nanoparticle Sensors from Nebraska to be Promoted at BIO 2007

In Nebraska, research on nanoparticle sensors with sensitivity rivaling human fingers could give robots a delicate sense of touch. A computer-aided orthopedic surgical system could enable surgeons to do faster, less inva...

24 Apr 2007

Nanoindent Achieves ISO 9001:2000 Certification

NANOIDENT Technologies AG, the world leader in printed semiconductor-based optoelectronic sensors, announced achievement of ISO 9001:2000 certification for the NANOIDENT Group of companies, which includes NANOIDENT Techn...

24 Apr 2007

ULURU Presented Nanoparticle Wound Care Technology at Biomaterials 2007 Annual Meeting

ULURU Inc. announced that its nanoparticle aggregate technology was presented today at the Society for Biomaterials 2007 Annual Meeting and Exposition. This presentation was given by Dr. John St. John, Vice President of ...

24 Apr 2007

IBM Use Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Visualise Nanoscale Objects

IBM announced that researchers at its Almaden Research Center have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) techniques to visualize nanoscale objects. This technique brings MRI capability to the nanoscale level fo...

24 Apr 2007

Scanning Tunnelling Microscope Used to Show How Molecules Recognise Each Other

A human body has more than 10 to the power of 27 molecules with about one hundred thousand different shapes and functions. Interactions between molecules determine our structure and keep us alive. Researchers at the Max ...

24 Apr 2007