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Thermo Fisher Introduces ITQ Series of Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC - MS) Ion Trap Instruments

Thermo Fisher Scientific released ITQ Series of gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) ion trap instruments, featuring external ionization.

13 Mar 2008

Unregulated and Unlabelled Food Full of Nanotechnology Poses Risks to Human Health Claims New Report into Nanofood Safety

Food, packaging and agricultural products containing manufactured nanomaterials pose a toxic health risk and should be suspended from sale until new safety testing, laws and appropriate labelling are created, a new report says.

11 Mar 2008

Largest Meeting of Physicists Happening in New Orleans - But if You Don't Look in the Conference Room, Are They Really There

The March Meeting of American Physical Society is taking place from March 10-14, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. More than 7,000 scientists are expected to be on hand. The principal topic areas will be condensed matter p...

11 Mar 2008

Environmentally Safe and Friendly Nanoparticles to be Launched into Solar Cells, Nanotechnology Based Lighting and Security Devices

Voxtel is set to announce its entry into the business of manufacturing
“green” semiconductor and metal-oxide nanocrystals for a wide variety customer applications, including:
photovoltaic solar cells, electro-luminescent lighting, anti-counterfeiting taggants, and security
inks.

7 Mar 2008

New Nanotube Findings Give Boost to Potential Biomedical Applications

Carbon nanotubes have shown real promise as highly accurate vehicles for delivering antitumor agents into malignant cells, but a dearth of data about what happens to the tubes after they discharge their medical payloads ...

4 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Advances Brain Cancer Detection and Therapy

Brain cancer is one of the most aggressive and lethal of malignancies, made even more difficult to treat by the fact that most anticancer drugs have a hard time even getting to the tumors. Now, studies by three differ...

4 Mar 2008

Targeted Dendrimer Advances in Preclinical Studies

Although a variety of nanoparticles continue to show promise for improving cancer imaging and therapy, regulators and drug developers are concerned that these delivery systems may prove difficult to manufacture on a cons...

4 Mar 2008

Nanotech Scientist Awarded as Outstanding Missourian

University of Missouri scientist Kattesh Katti recently discovered how to make gold nanoparticles using gold salts, soybeans and water. Katti’s research has garnered attention worldwide and the environmentally-frie...

29 Feb 2008

Federal Toxics Reporting Statute Could be Applied to Production and Commercialization of Nanotechnology

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has released a first-time legal analysis that finds a key federal toxics reporting statute could be applied to production and commercialization of nanotechnology, providing ...

26 Feb 2008

Nano-Scale Scaffolds Made of Silica and Loaded with Nitric Oxide Deliver Knock-Out Blow to Bacteria

Mark Schoenfisch and his lab of analytical chemists at UNC have created nano-scale scaffolds made of silica and loaded with nitric oxide (NO) - an important molecule in mammals that plays a role in regulating blood pressure, neurotransmission and fighting bacterial infections, among other vital functions.

26 Feb 2008

Nanotoxicology News

Thermo Fisher Introduces ITQ Series of Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC - MS) Ion Trap Instruments

Unregulated and Unlabelled Food Full of Nanotechnology Poses Risks to Human Health Claims New Report into Nanofood Safety

Largest Meeting of Physicists Happening in New Orleans - But if You Don't Look in the Conference Room, Are They Really There

Environmentally Safe and Friendly Nanoparticles to be Launched into Solar Cells, Nanotechnology Based Lighting and Security Devices

New Nanotube Findings Give Boost to Potential Biomedical Applications

Nanotechnology Advances Brain Cancer Detection and Therapy

Targeted Dendrimer Advances in Preclinical Studies

Nanotech Scientist Awarded as Outstanding Missourian

Federal Toxics Reporting Statute Could be Applied to Production and Commercialization of Nanotechnology

Nano-Scale Scaffolds Made of Silica and Loaded with Nitric Oxide Deliver Knock-Out Blow to Bacteria

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

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

A New Understanding of Metal-Carbon Interactions

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

A New Language for Nanopore Design

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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