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Genetic Test for Warfarin Sensitivity and Nanotechnology Based Molecular Diagnostics Platform Cleared by FDA

Nanosphere, Inc., a nanotechnology-based molecular diagnostics company, today announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Verigene® System, a random access, molec...

19 Sep 2007

Advances in Nano Chemistry to Lead to Polymer Lasers and Better Displays on Laptops and Mobile Telephones

UCLA chemists working at the nanoscale have developed a new, inexpensive means of forcing luminescent polymers to give off polarized light and of confining that light to produce polymer-based lasers. The research, whi...

19 Sep 2007

MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids Book Shows Children and School Students that Small technologies are Cool

Bourne Research has announced publication of the new book, MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids . Authored by Marlene Bourne, President & Principal Analyst of Bourne Research, the book gives readers a basic overview of M...

18 Sep 2007

Cheaper and More Effective Vaccine Using Nanoparticles

Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fra...

18 Sep 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Help Bone Grow on Titanium Implants

For orthopaedic implants to be successful, bone must meld to the metal that these artificial hips, knees and shoulders are made of. A team of Brown University engineers, led by Thomas Webster, has discovered a new materi...

18 Sep 2007

How to Make Solar Energy Generation as Cheap as Growing Grass

Scientists are working to produce cheap, sustainable solar energy by imitating nature. Nanotechnology researchers like California Institute of Technology professor Nate Lewis are exploring nanoscale materials that mimic ...

18 Sep 2007

Phase Change Computer Memory Works 1000 Times Faster Than Current Memory

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Fl...

18 Sep 2007

Miniature Sensor Measures Contaminants in Water and Air

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a miniature sensor that uses polymer membranes deposited on a tiny silicon disk to measure pollutants present in aqueous or gaseous environments. An array...

18 Sep 2007

Graphene Sheet of Carbon Atoms Acts Like Billiard Table, May Replace Silicon in Computer Chips

A game of billiards may never get smaller than this. Physicists at UC Riverside have demonstrated that graphene – a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings – can act as an atomic-scal...

17 Sep 2007

Magnetic Nanparticles Improve Data Storage

New research led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory physicist Matthias Bode provides a more thorough understanding of new mechanisms, which makes it possible to switch a magnetic nanoparti...

15 Sep 2007