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An Online, Community-Driven Wiki for Information About Safe Handling of Nanomaterials

The Rice University-based International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) today introduced the GoodNanoGuide, an online, community-driven wiki for information about the safe handling of nanomaterials. The beta version ...

From International Council on Nanotechnology - ICON 1 Jun 2009

New Tool May Help Scientists and Physicians Monitor Heart Disease and Grow New Vascular Tissue for Transplants

Testing people for heart disease might be just a finger prick away thanks to a new credit card-sized device created by a team of researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities in Boston. In a research report publ...

1 Jun 2009

UCL Offering Cutting-Edge Course in Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine

UCL is offering a cutting-edge course in the rapidly expanding field of nanotechnology and regenerative medicine. The MSc in Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine will give students a robust scientific understanding and equip them with research and transferable tools.

1 Jun 2009

Researchers Successfully Conduct a Remotely Controlled SAXS Experiment

Nanyang Technological University's School of Biological Science (SBS) has partnered the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg to conduct successfully a remotely controlled Solution X-Ray Scattering ...

29 May 2009

Chiral Processes on Surfaces

Catalysts do function, despite the fact that not all the chemical reactions (and partial reactions) which occur are fully understood, including those which take place during the treatment of automobile exhaust.

29 May 2009

Engineers Designed Cells that Can Count and Remember Cellular Events

MIT and Boston University engineers have designed cells that can count and "remember" cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of genes are activated in a specific order. Such circuits, which...

28 May 2009

Detecting Viruses in Minutes

Imagine being able to detect in just a few minutes whether someone is infected with a virus. This has now become a reality, thanks to a new ultra-sensitive detector that has been developed by Ostendum, a spin-off company of the University of Twente.

28 May 2009

Clinical Application of Nanomedicine-Based Technology for Non-Invasive Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells

A first-of-its-kind clinical trial exploring a way to diagnose cancer in its earliest stages is being conducted at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute through a National Cancer Institute grant.

27 May 2009

Rice Physicist on a Quest to Understand Death

Rice physicist Huey Huang is on a quest to understand death -- or at least a little piece of it. Huang has spent the past 15 years studying the properties of cell membranes in an effort to unravel a mystery about cell suicide, a mystery that starts with a tiny hole.

27 May 2009

Guanajuato First to Try Rice's Arsenic-Cleansing 'Nanorust'

Rice University researchers today announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the university's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year...

27 May 2009