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First Luminescent Nanoparticle Designed to Minimize Toxic Side Effects

Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nanoscale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule flakes of silicon that gl...

26 Mar 2009

Research Team Develop Nanoparticle that Transports Antitumor Genes Selectively to Cancer Cells

Given that cancer is ultimately a genetic disease, it has long been the hope of researchers to use gene therapy to attack tumors where they might be most susceptible. Those prospects have taken a significant step forward...

26 Mar 2009

Symyx Technologies Announces the Release of DiscoveryGate Web Service

By providing programmable access to the DiscoveryGate content platform, this new service accelerates scientific workflows, decision making, and productivity in R+D by giving scientists 24/7 access to current chemical sourcing, molecular property, synthetic methodology, bioactivity, and toxicology information from Symyx and participating content providers.

26 Mar 2009

Researchers Have Produced a Strongly Hydrophobic Nanodiamond Material

Vadym Mochalin, Senior Researcher, and Yury Gogotsi, Trustee Chair Professor of Materials Science + Engineering at Drexel University, have produced a strongly hydrophobic nanodiamond material that shows bright blue fluorescence, just as macroscopic diamonds do.

25 Mar 2009

Using Nanotechnology, Brookhaven Lab Scientists Patent Corrosion-Resistant Coating for Metals

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method for coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film containing nanoparticles - particles measuring billionths of a meter - which renders the metal resistant to corrosion and eliminates the use of toxic chromium for this purpose.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 25 Mar 2009

Report Addresses Regulatory Oversight for The Next Biotech Revolution

The safety of early applications of synthetic biology may be adequately addressed by the existing regulatory framework for biotechnology, especially in contained laboratories and manufacturing facilities. But further adv...

25 Mar 2009

Conference Discusses Carbon Nanocarbons from Biological to Biomedical and Environmental Effects

Carbon Nanotubes (CNT), discovered in 1991, have amazing mechanical, thermal and electrical conductivity, as well as excellent field emission properties. Actual uses of CNT are already about to be numerous (car industry, sport accessories, etc.), and future applications are foreseen to be in constant development.

24 Mar 2009

Comparing Quantity of Artificial Carbon-Based Nanoparticles to Natural Carbon-Based Nanoparticles

The quantity of artificial carbon-based nanoparticles in lake and river-beds, originating from new products, is negligible compared to the concentration of natural carbon-based nanoparticles that are present in such beds...

23 Mar 2009

Nanopoint Recognized by Frost and Sullivan for its Pioneering Cell Imaging Solution

Based on its recent analysis of the cell imaging solutions market, Frost + Sullivan presents Nanopoint, Inc. with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation of the Year. The company's c...

From Frost and Sullivan 23 Mar 2009

A Long-Awaited Advance Toward Applying Marvels of Nanotechnology in the Battle Against Cancer

Researchers are describing a long-awaited advance toward applying the marvels of nanotechnology in the battle against cancer. They have developed the first hollow gold nanospheres - smaller than the finest flecks of dust - that search out and "cook" cancer cells.

22 Mar 2009

Nanotoxicology News

First Luminescent Nanoparticle Designed to Minimize Toxic Side Effects

Research Team Develop Nanoparticle that Transports Antitumor Genes Selectively to Cancer Cells

Symyx Technologies Announces the Release of DiscoveryGate Web Service

Researchers Have Produced a Strongly Hydrophobic Nanodiamond Material

Using Nanotechnology, Brookhaven Lab Scientists Patent Corrosion-Resistant Coating for Metals

Report Addresses Regulatory Oversight for The Next Biotech Revolution

Conference Discusses Carbon Nanocarbons from Biological to Biomedical and Environmental Effects

Comparing Quantity of Artificial Carbon-Based Nanoparticles to Natural Carbon-Based Nanoparticles

Nanopoint Recognized by Frost and Sullivan for its Pioneering Cell Imaging Solution

A Long-Awaited Advance Toward Applying Marvels of Nanotechnology in the Battle Against Cancer

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

Revolutionary Nanofibers Made from Flour for Tissue Regeneration

Breakthrough in Broadband Photodetectors: Nanomaterial Gii Could Bring Faster Broadband and Higher Quality Medical Imaging

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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