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Nanoparticles are Used to Enhance Quality of Cosmetics Products

Increasing acceptance of organic and herbal-based cosmetic products will drive the cosmetics industry in near future, RNCOS identified. According to our latest industry monitory report “Cosmetics Trends”, ...

29 Sep 2010

B + C to Moderate Science Policy Debate at NanoBusiness Conference

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C) is pleased to announce that on September 27, 2010, Lynn L. Bergeson will moderate a panel discussing key nanotechnology-related U.S. regulatory and science policy issues impacting ...

29 Sep 2010

NIST to Award Up to $15 Million to UMD to Support Nanotechnology Research

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) will award a five-year cooperative agreement totaling $15 million to the University of Maryland (UMD), College ...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 28 Sep 2010

Scientists Use Plasmonic Nanobubbles to Remove Implanted Cancer Cells

Rice University physicist Dmitri Lapotko has demonstrated that plasmonic nanobubbles, generated around gold nanoparticles with a laser pulse, can detect and destroy cancer cells in vivo by creating tiny, shiny vapor bubb...

28 Sep 2010

Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Receives NCI Grant to Advance Cancer Therapy

The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $13.6 million grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (C-CCNE) based at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer through applying/using advances in nanotechnology.

28 Sep 2010

NPL and Orla Receive Funds to Improve TB Detection

Two UK companies have been awarded joint funding for a research project that could see significant advances in the quest to aid detection and eradication of Tuberculosis (TB), across the world. The National Physical L...

28 Sep 2010

Celebration of 25th Anniversary of Nanotechnology Research at Rice University

If a gathering for 800 could ever be considered "nano," this would be the one. Next month Rice University's Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology will kick off its Week of Nano ...

27 Sep 2010

Rice Researchers Develop New Nano Antenna that Captures Light

Everybody who's ever used a TV, radio or cell phone knows what an antenna does: It captures the aerial signals that make those devices practical. A lab at Rice University has built an antenna that captures light i...

27 Sep 2010

New Nano-Based Approach Provides Controlled and Sustained Drug Delivery

The mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene results in CF. The most common mutation, DeltaF508-CFTR, is a temperature-sensitive, trafficking mutant with reduced chloride transpo...

27 Sep 2010

Protein Nanopore Enables DNA Strand Sequencing

Research published this week in Nature Nanotechnology shows a new method of enzyme-controlled movement of a single strand of DNA through a protein nanopore. The paper, by researchers at the University of California S...

27 Sep 2010