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DNA Technique Used to Engineer 3D Structures for Catalytic, Magnetic and Optical Nanomaterials

In an achievement some see as the "holy grail" of nanoscience, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have for the first time used DNA to guide the creation of three-d...

31 Jan 2008

Purpose Built Nanotechnology Research Insitute at Trinity College Dublin to be Built as Part of Science Facility

The Naughton Institute, a €100 million state-of-the-art new science facility at Trinity College Dublin which will house Ireland’s first purpose-built nanoscience research institute, the Centre for Research on ...

30 Jan 2008

Prostate Cancer Treatment With Nanomedicines Gets Boost With Funding Gift

The Prostate Cancer Foundation, largely through the generosity of David H. Koch, has given $5 million to four institutions, including Weill Cornell Medical College, to support novel research in prostate cancer. The gift ...

30 Jan 2008

Genetically Modified Food Poisoning Bacteria Could be Source of Future Energy

For most people, the name “E. coli” is synonymous with food poisoning and product recalls, but a professor in Texas A&M University’s chemical engineering department envisions the bacteria as a futur...

30 Jan 2008

Safety of Carbon Nanotubes in the Body Investigated to See if Carbon Nanotubes Build Up in Essential Organs

Carbon nanotubes-cylinders so tiny that it takes 50,000 lying side by side to equal the width of a human hair-are packed with the potential to be highly accurate vehicles for administering medicines and other therapeutic...

30 Jan 2008

Medical and Genetic Testing Using Cheap, Reliable Lab-On-A-Chip Testing Equipment

University of Alberta researchers in Edmonton, Canada, have developed a portable unit for genetic testing about the size of a shoebox, which has the same capability as a lab full of expensive equipment. The device &nd...

30 Jan 2008

Carbon Nanotube Based Drugs may Prevent Damage from Acute Radiation

More than half of those people who suffer acute radiation injury die within 30 days from the devastation they cause in the immune system. A new drug based on carbon nanotubes could protect against ionising radiation.

30 Jan 2008

Molecular Sized Machines Might Get Around Using Two Legged DNA Walker Legs

Researchers have synthesized a molecular structure designed from single and double-stranded pieces of DNA that responds to a similarly modeled track, by walking down it autonomously.

29 Jan 2008

Miniature Machines Diagnosing Disease in the Body a Step Closer With Tiny Camera in a Pill

What if swallowing a pill with a camera could detect the earliest signs of cancer? The tiny camera is designed to take high-quality, color pictures in confined spaces. Such a device could find warning signs of esophageal...

25 Jan 2008

Major EU Research Project to be Run from Copenhagen Nano-Science Centre

Nanotechnology allows scientists to observe atoms and molecules and manipulate them. New materials, improved medicine, high-speed computers, and enhanced environmental protection are just a few of the benefits that can b...

24 Jan 2008

Nanomedicine News

DNA Technique Used to Engineer 3D Structures for Catalytic, Magnetic and Optical Nanomaterials

Purpose Built Nanotechnology Research Insitute at Trinity College Dublin to be Built as Part of Science Facility

Prostate Cancer Treatment With Nanomedicines Gets Boost With Funding Gift

Genetically Modified Food Poisoning Bacteria Could be Source of Future Energy

Safety of Carbon Nanotubes in the Body Investigated to See if Carbon Nanotubes Build Up in Essential Organs

Medical and Genetic Testing Using Cheap, Reliable Lab-On-A-Chip Testing Equipment

Carbon Nanotube Based Drugs may Prevent Damage from Acute Radiation

Molecular Sized Machines Might Get Around Using Two Legged DNA Walker Legs

Miniature Machines Diagnosing Disease in the Body a Step Closer With Tiny Camera in a Pill

Major EU Research Project to be Run from Copenhagen Nano-Science Centre

Nanopore-Based Sensor Enables Rapid and Precise Disease Diagnosis

Combining Nanofluids and Turbulators for Sustainable Energy

Multiscale Force Sensing with Photon-Avalanching Nanocrystals

Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology

Enhancing Material Properties through Nanotube Encapsulation

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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Characterization of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, Injectables, and Proteins

The Future of Wound Care: Why Nanofibers are Key to Accelerated Healing

The Evolution of Lipid Nanoparticles

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