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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

Researchers Developed New Type of Property-Changing Polymer

Researchers have developed a new type of property-changing polymer: It is water-repellent at 37°C, which makes it an ideal culture substrate for biological cells. At room temperature it attracts water, allowing the cells to be detached easily from the substrate.

2 Sep 2008

Physicists Who Discovered World's Thinnest Material have Scooped Major Award for Their Work

Professor Andre Geim FRS and Dr Kostya Noveselov of the Centre of Mesoscience and Nanotechnology have been awarded the prestigious Europhysics Prize for discovering graphene - and also their subsequent work to reveal its...

1 Sep 2008

Zinc-Oxide Nanoparticles - Remarkable Breakthrough in Cancer Treatment

Boise State researchers have made a remarkable breakthrough in cancer treatment that may provide the "magic bullet" for the debilitating effects of chemotherapy. The interdisciplinary group of researchers a...

31 Aug 2008

Practices Proven to Enhance Economic Viability of Industry

Pete Grannis, Commissioner of New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, hosted an open house today at Rochester Institute of Technology, showcasing the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, also k...

26 Aug 2008

Agency Lacks Budget, Authority and Expertise to Ensure Nanoproducts are Safe

The inability of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to carry out its mandate with respect to simple, low-tech products such as children's jewelry and toy trains bodes poorly for its ability to oversee the ...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 21 Aug 2008

Diatom Reduces Red Tide’s Toxicity to Animals and Other Algae

It's estimated that the red tide algae, Karenia brevis, costs approximately $20 million per bloom in economic damage off the coast of Florida alone. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that a diatom can reduce the levels of the red tide's toxicity to animals and that the same diatom can reduce red tide's toxicity to other algae as well.

21 Aug 2008

Evaluating the Risk of Nanoparticles in the Environment

Thanks to emerging technologies and other advances, nano-enabled products and materials are appearing more often in our environment. But these products may hold unknown risks or dangers to ecosystems and the people who u...

20 Aug 2008