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Carbon Nanotube Pipettes Could Become Key to in-situ DNA Sequencing

Drexel University College of Engineering researchers have successfully developed carbon nanotube-tipped pipettes that could become key to cell biology in-situ DNA sequencing and organelle-targeted drug delivery. Acco...

10 Apr 2007

DC Nanogenerator Fabricated Using an Array of Zinc Oxide Nanowires

Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, mechanical vibr...

From Nanogen 10 Apr 2007

MicroCHIPS Receives Equity Investment from Leading Pharmaceutical Company

MicroCHIPS, Inc., a developer of innovative drug delivery and biosensing devices, has announced a $13.4 million dollar round of investment funding led by Novartis Venture Fund. Reinhard Ambros, Global Head of Novartis Ve...

4 Apr 2007

Liquid-State-Field-Effect Transistors Promise Improvements for "Lab on a Chip" Devices

Parting a tiny red sea at the University of Cincinnati: Today's - and tomorrow's - sophisticated electronic devices may hinge on our ability to control microdrops of liquid on a surface. This effect, called elect...

4 Apr 2007

Bubble Anomaly for a Hydrophilic Microheater Attributed to Nanobubbles

Using a microscope and some extreme 'snapshot' photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have u...

2 Apr 2007

Nanostructured Membranes Adopt Properties of Guest Molecules

Virginia Tech researchers announced last year that they had created a nanostructured membrane that incorporates DNA base pairs in order to impart molecular recognition and binding ability to the synthetic material. This ...

2 Apr 2007

European Nanobiocom Project Aims to Develop Intelligenet Bone Replacement Materials

More than half a million people in the European Union and a million in the United States suffer from disorders in or serious defects of some part of their bone structure. Operations involving grafts or implants, required...

2 Apr 2007

Formation of Nanobubbles in Boiling Water Captured Witnessed

Using a microscope and some extreme “snapshot” photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University ha...

2 Apr 2007

Never-Before-Seen Configurations of Metal Crystals

Appropriating cellulose fibers from cotton and crystallizing them, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have grown never-before-seen configurations of metal crystals that show promise as components in bios...

29 Mar 2007

Iron Containing Nanoparticles Found to be Toxic to Nerve Cells

Researchers at UC San Diego have discovered that iron-containing nanoparticles being tested for use in several biomedical applications can be toxic to nerve cells and interfere with the formation of their signal-transmit...

29 Mar 2007