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Nanostructured Material Offers Environmentally Safe Armor-Piercing Capability

Armor-piercing projectiles made of depleted uranium have caused concern among soldiers storing and using them. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are close to developing a new composit...

6 Feb 2007

Novel Approach to Synthesizing Nanowires

A novel approach to synthesizing nanowires (NWs) allows their direct integration with microelectronic systems for the first time, as well as their ability to act as highly sensitive biomolecule detectors that could revol...

6 Feb 2007

Scientists Discover How and Why Electrical Conductance of Nanowires Changes With Length

A Georgia Tech physics group has discovered how and why the electrical conductance of metal nanowires changes as their length varies. In a collaborative investigation performed by an experimental team and a theoretical p...

6 Feb 2007

NanoMed Pharma Completes Second Closing of Series A Financing

NanoMed Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has achieved its preclinical development milestone for the company's lead oncology product which is intended to overcome multidrug resistance in remission induction thera...

6 Feb 2007

Coated Nanoparticles Solve Sticky Drug-Delivery Problem

The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, investigators at Johns Hopkins University have ...

6 Feb 2007

Brightly Fluorescent Europium Nanoparticles May Improve Cancer Assays

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have created a new type of nanoparticle that could be used in tests for medical diagnostics, environmental pollution, and contamination of food products. The particles,...

6 Feb 2007

Heat and pH-Sensitive Nanoparticles Designed to Target Tumors

Using a novel polymer that becomes unstable under the pH conditions inside tumor cells, investigators at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have developed a core-shell nanoparticle targeted ...

6 Feb 2007

Bright Nanoparticles Aid Basic Cancer Biology Studies

Though there is little doubt that nanoscale devices are going to play a critical role in improving cancer detection and treatment over the next five to ten years, nanoparticles are already having a major impact on the wa...

6 Feb 2007

Polymer Nanofibers Become Stronger When Their Diameter Shrinks Below a Ceratin Size

Bigger may be better, but tinier is stronger. So say scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, who have shown that tiny polymer nanofibers become much stronger when their diameters shrink below a certain...

5 Feb 2007

Nanoscale Magnets Enhance Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Nanoscale magnets in the form of iron-containing molecules might be used to improve the contrast between healthy and diseased tissue in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - as long as the concentration of nanomagnets is ca...

2 Feb 2007