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Acclaimed Researcher Named as the First Recipient of Millipore Seed Grant Fellowship

Millipore Corporation, a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today named acclaimed stem cell researcher Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia as the f...

30 Jul 2008

A Novel Way to Kill Tumor Cells Using Nanoparticles and Light

Medical physicists at the University of Virginia have created a novel way to kill tumor cells using nanoparticles and light. The technique, devised by Wensha Yang, an instructor in radiation oncology at the University of...

30 Jul 2008

Nanobialys Soon Be Carrying Medicinal Compounds to Tumors or Atherosclerotic Plaques

Ultra-miniature bialy-shaped particles - called nanobialys because they resemble tiny versions of the flat, onion-topped rolls popular in New York City - could soon be carrying medicinal compounds through patients' bloodstreams to tumors or atherosclerotic plaques.

30 Jul 2008

Nanoscale Mass Sensor Can be Used to Weigh Individual Atoms and Molecules

There's a new "gold standard" in the sensitivity of weighing scales. Using the same technology with which they created the world's first fully functional nanotube radio, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) at Berkeley have fashioned a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) that can function as a scale sensitive enough to measure the mass of a single atom of gold.

29 Jul 2008

New Instrument Combines Traditional Computer-Chip Technology with Microfluidics

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip.

29 Jul 2008

How Nanotechnology is Helping Address Growing Energy Needs

A research team from Purdue University's Discovery Park will travel to India next month to lead a joint India-United States workshop on how advancements in nanotechnology are helping address growing energy needs. ...

28 Jul 2008

Paving the Way for New Approaches to Developing Anti-Cancer Drugs

A fruitful collaboration between chemists and biologists has made it possible to identify the effects of a new class of molecules, polyoxometalates (1), primarily composed of metals and oxygen. These molecules are very powerful inhibitors of a specific protein kinase, CK2, an enzyme that is overactive in a number of cancers.

26 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology May Hold Key to Improving Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

Once limited to the electronics industry, semiconductor material may hold the key to improving early detection of prostate cancer among African-American men. Nanotechnology using quantum dots (QD) made from semicondu...

25 Jul 2008

Nanoparticle-Based Assay Able to Detect Telomerase Activity

Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for meas...

25 Jul 2008

Particle Sizing System Demonstrates DNA-Guided Formation of Ordered 3-D Crystalline Structures

A research team led by Dr Oleg Gang at the Brookhaven Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) in New York is using the Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system from Malvern Instruments in ground-breaking work that has demonstrated successful DNA-guided formation of ordered 3-D crystalline structures.

25 Jul 2008