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Forum Showcases Treatments for Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries Involving Nanotechnology

The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA announced today that it will host an international forum featuring some of the world's most innovative scientists and technology leaders at the vanguard of treatmen...

15 Aug 2008

Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Delivery Vehicles

The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process. Hence the value of the more surgical flyswatter.

15 Aug 2008

Cell's Recognition of Danger Through Protein Response

In joint experimental work, physicists at Sandia National Laboratories and biologists at the University of New Mexico’s Cancer Research and Treatment Center have combined unusual techniques to make real-time movies that show exactly how a 50-nanometer-thick membrane notifies the cell it encloses that a hostile alien presence — an antigen — has made a landing.

14 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology Conference Attracting Top Minds in Science from Around the World

What has been called “the most important nanotechnology conference in the Americas” is again shaping up for October 2-3 during International Nanotechnology Week at the Hyatt Regency Dallas convention hotel. ...

14 Aug 2008

MCP Technology Creates New Inorganic Molecules for Custom Applications

Applied NanoWorks, an inorganic materials development company, announces the availability of MCP Technology™ for research and development, joint development agreements and material manufacturing applications. The M...

13 Aug 2008

BioForce Receives Equity Interest in Aspera under License Agreement

BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc., a producer of integrated biological and mechanical systems for life science researchers at the micro and nano scales, today announced the completion of a transaction where it license...

13 Aug 2008

MicroRNA Provides Completely New Way of Addressing Cardiovascular Disorders

The development and repair of heart tissue and blood vessels is intimately tied to a tiny piece of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is found nowhere else in the body, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

12 Aug 2008

New Metamaterial Could Help Form Nanocircuits for High-Powered Computers

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development that could help form the basis for higher resolution optical imaging, nanocircuits for high-powered computers, and, to the delight of science-fiction and fantasy buffs, cloaking devices that could render objects invisible to the human eye.

11 Aug 2008

Research and Markets Releases Report on Electrospun Nanofibres

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Electrospun Nanofibres and their Applications" report to their offering. The report contains an array of colour diagrams, mathematical models, equatio...

11 Aug 2008

Undergraduate Students Displayed Nano Findings at a Poster Presentation

Twenty-five undergraduate students who spent the summer doing real-world research at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") - including 17 who are New York State residents - displayed their findings at a Poster Presentation on August 8 that marked the capstone of CNSE's 2008 Summer Internship Program.

9 Aug 2008