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Leading Global Characterization Service Provider Announce Acquisition of Nano Intergrated Solutions

EAG, Inc. (“EAG”), the leading global provider of surface analysis and materials characterization services, and microelectronic “release to production” (“RTP”) and failure analysis (&l...

22 Dec 2008

Carl Zeiss Imaging Software Examines Intracellular Process in Nanoseconds

The Dual Camera module for the AxioVision image analysis software from Carl Zeiss is intended for all users in the life sciences, including cell biologists, virologists and physiologists

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 21 Dec 2008

New Study Shows the Nanotoxicity of Nanoparticles

The ability of nanoparticles to cross the lung-blood barrier suggests that they may translocate to blood and to targets distant from their portal of entry. Nevertheless, nanotoxicity in organs has received little attenti...

21 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology to Help Build Molecular Computers

Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next 60?

18 Dec 2008

New Label-Free Imaging Technique Set to Revolutionize Biomedical Imaging

The key to this new chemical imaging technique is the use of two lasers with different frequencies. Researchers visualize samples by tuning the laser frequencies to match the vibrational frequency of a specific chemical bond. Each type of molecule within a sample, including nutrients or drugs, is detectable at a unique frequency.

18 Dec 2008

New Centrifugation Method Capable of Separating Carbon Nanotubes

Double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) can be separated from mixtures of single- (SWNTs) and multiwalled nanotubes (MWNTs) by using a centrifugation method recently developed at Northwestern University

18 Dec 2008

Animation Reveals the Mysterious Properties of the Quantum World

Quantum physics is both mysterious and difficult to grasp. Barry Sanders, director of the University of Calgary's Institute for Quantum Information Science, is hoping to change that.

17 Dec 2008

Introducing NanoArt Online Competition - A New Art Discipline

NanoArt is a new art discipline at the art-science-technology intersections. It features nanolandscapes (molecular and atomic landscapes which are natural structures of matter at molecular and atomic scales) and nanosculptures (structures created by scientists and artists by manipulating matter at molecular and atomic scales using chemical and physical processes).

17 Dec 2008

New "Super-Resolution" Fluorescence Microscopy Technique Reveal Features of Cells at 20-30 nanometers (nm)

Thanks to a new "super-resolution" fluorescence microscopy technique, Harvard University researchers have succeeded in resolving the features of cells as miniscule as 20-30 nanometers (nm), an order of magnitud...

17 Dec 2008

Scientists Now Able to Observe Membrane Fission in Real Time

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved one of biology's neatest little tricks: they have discovered how a cell's outer membrane pinches a little pouch from itself to bring molecules outside the cell inside—without making holes that leak fluid from either side of the membrane.

15 Dec 2008