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Balancing Important Benefits of Nanoscale Silver Against Environmental Risks

Widespread use of nanoscale silver will challenge regulatory agencies to balance important potential benefits against the possibility of significant environmental risk, highlighting the need to identify research prioriti...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 9 Sep 2008

Exciting Advances in the Ability to Work at the Atomic Level to be Unveiled at nanotxUSA'08

Among the more dramatic tools to be demonstrated during International Nanotechnology Week at the Hyatt Regency Dallas convention hotel October 2-3 is by InsituTec Inc, a Nano-Tool company commercializing an innovative pl...

9 Sep 2008

Researchers Developed New Method for Producing GOld Nanorods for Biomedical Applications

Gold nanoparticles are under consideration for a number of biomedical applications, such as tumor treatment. A German-American research team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Hunter College in New York, and the RWTH Aachen has now developed a new method for the production of nanoscopic gold rods.

8 Sep 2008

Scientists Studying Arsenic Pollution Discovered Living Sensor

Scientists studying arsenic pollution have discovered a living sensor that can spot contamination. They have also discovered new bacteria that can clean up arsenic spills even in previously untreatable cold areas, microb...

8 Sep 2008

Senior Attorney Analyzes Need For Nanotechnology Regulation

Although analysts forecast that more than 15 percent of all products will incorporate some form of nanotechnology by 2014, there is very little federal regulation or oversight on this burgeoning sector. The challenge, as...

6 Sep 2008

Bilayer Clusters of Atoms Less Than a Nanometer in Dimension Found to be Responsible for Vital Oxidation Reaction

Few materials have exercised as much of a hold on the human imagination, or on human history, as has gold. But for all of its popular uses - money, medals, jewelry and more - gold's potential as a catalyst lay hid...

5 Sep 2008

UT Health Science Center Announces License Agreement for Lipid Nanospheres

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Azaya Therapeutics Inc. today announced a licensing agreement for a novel nano-scale, lipid-sphere technology conceived and pre-clinically tested by Health...

5 Sep 2008

Scientists Find a Way to Help Make New Reactions

Princeton scientists have discovered a way of stimulating organic molecules that they expect will prompt researchers to create materials from new kinds of chemical reactions. The method of catalysis, when used, could ...

5 Sep 2008

Nanoparticles for Therapy and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

Today, the NAD (Nanoparticles for therapy and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease) Project is being launched. This is a multidisciplinary project with the goal of early diagnosis and effective treatment of Alzheimer&#39...

4 Sep 2008

Workshop Bringing Nanotechnology from Laboratory to Manufacturing Floor

Northeastern University's Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the University of New Hampshire will hold the 6th New England International Nanomanufacturing Worksho...

4 Sep 2008