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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

Health Impact of Inhaled NanoMetals to be Studied by Multidisciplinary Team

Every day, everywhere we go, whether we know it or not, we are exposed to nanomaterials-particles with one dimension no bigger than 1/100,000th the width of a human hair. They can be found in cosmetics, sunscreens, pharm...

4 Sep 2008

Researchers Want to Know if Nanoparticles can be Transported Through Food Chain

Working to ensure the safe use of nanomaterials is the basis of a new Rice study funded by the National Science Foundation. Led by Pedro Alvarez, the George R. Brown Professor and chair of the Civil and Environmental...

4 Sep 2008

M3 Series Enables Cost Effective Biomarker Discovery and Profiling

HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA(TM)) system and service partner for the life sciences industry, today introduced the M3® Series, the industry's first multiplexed mini-micro...

3 Sep 2008