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Ultrasmooth Silver Surfaces Promise Invisibility Cloaks and Ultrahigh-resolution Lenses

Surface plasmon resonance—the coherent excitation of free electrons on the surface of metals—is crucial to the operation of extremely small photonic devices, which have applications ranging from optoelectroni...

24 Nov 2010

Highly Specific Electronic Sensor Array Detects Messenger RNA Below Femtomolar Concentrations

Electrical sensor arrays are useful tools for rapid and early diagnosis of cancer and other genetic diseases. Zhiqiang Gao and co-workers at the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have developed an arr...

24 Nov 2010

Magnetically Vectored Nanocapsules for Tumor-Penetration and Remotely Switchable On-Demand Drug Release

To improve the tumor-specific delivery of drug to tumors, a team of investigators from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has created a system of nanoparticles-within-a-nanoparticle that can be directed to an...

23 Nov 2010

Performance of Expansile Nanoparticles in Treating Lethal Abdominal Cavity Tumors

Too often, patients with ovarian cancer or mesothelioma develop metastases that spread within the abdominal cavity, and when that occurs, the chances of surviving beyond five years drops to less than 40%, even after surg...

23 Nov 2010

Integrated Microfluidic and Imaging Platform for Kinase Activity Radioassay to Analyze Minute Patient Cancer Samples

Inappropriate growth and survival signaling, which leads to the aberrant growth of cancer cells, is a driving force behind the development of tumors. Much current cancer research focuses on the kinase enzymes whose mutations are responsible for such disregulated signaling, and many successful molecularly targeted anti-cancer therapeutics are directed at inhibiting kinase activity.

23 Nov 2010

Gold Nanoshells Sensitizes Breast Cancer Stem Cells to Radiation Therapy

Gold nanoparticles have shown promise as miniature thermal scalpels that when irradiated with near-infrared light are capable of cooking tumors to death. Now, a team of investigators from The Methodist Hospital, Baylor C...

23 Nov 2010

Microfluidic Device Capable of Trapping Rare Circulating Tumor Cells from Blood of Cancer Patients

In 2007, Mehmet Toner and Daniel Haber and their collaborators at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School developed a microfluidic device capable of trapping rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the...

23 Nov 2010

TechPrecision Wins Order for Advanced Thin Film Panel Production Equipment

TechPrecision Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: TPCS) ("TechPrecision", or "the Company"), a leading manufacturer of large-scale, high-precision machined metal fabrications with customers in the altern...

23 Nov 2010

New Nanohole Biosensor to Detect Dangerous Viruses Quickly

Boston University researchers have developed a simple diagnostic tool that can quickly identify dangerous viruses like Ebola and Marburg. The biosensor, which is the size of a quarter and can detect viruses in a blood...

23 Nov 2010

Researcher Develops New Microscope to Advance Studies in Biomedical

AMES, Iowa – Sanjeevi Sivasankar was looking for a better tool to study how cells adhere to each other.

23 Nov 2010

Nansulate Coating Stops Critical Computer Shutdowns in IMSS Building in Mexico

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. an emerging global leader in nanotechnology based energy saving solutions, today announced that the Company’s patented Nansulate® energy saving protective coating was successfully used to solve the problem of computer shutdowns due to high temperatures in a building of the IMSS (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social - Social Security Administration).

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 23 Nov 2010

CEA-Leti to Present New Findings on Silicon Nanowires at IEDM/IEEE 2010

CEA-Leti will present 10 papers, including two invited papers, at the IEDM/IEEE 2010 International Electron Devices Meeting Dec. 6-8, in San Francisco, Calif.

From CEA-Leti 23 Nov 2010

Naval Researchers Create Water-Repellant Nanofilm to Control Directions

In nature, water striders can walk on water, butterflies can shed water from their wings, and plants can trap insects and pollen. Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory are part of a research team working to engineer surfaces that imitate some of these water repellency features found in nature.

23 Nov 2010

Paper-Based Display Technology Featured in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces November Issue

A breakthrough in a University of Cincinnati engineering lab that could clear the way for a low-cost, even disposable, e-reader is gaining considerable attention.

23 Nov 2010

Shrinking the Computer Chip Highlighted in ACS Science Video Series

The science that helped make today's smartphones and iPods smaller but more powerful than yesterday's desktop computers highlights the latest episode in the American Chemical Society (ACS) Prized Science video series.

From American Chemical Society 23 Nov 2010

Nanotechnology News

Ultrasmooth Silver Surfaces Promise Invisibility Cloaks and Ultrahigh-resolution Lenses

Highly Specific Electronic Sensor Array Detects Messenger RNA Below Femtomolar Concentrations

Magnetically Vectored Nanocapsules for Tumor-Penetration and Remotely Switchable On-Demand Drug Release

Performance of Expansile Nanoparticles in Treating Lethal Abdominal Cavity Tumors

Integrated Microfluidic and Imaging Platform for Kinase Activity Radioassay to Analyze Minute Patient Cancer Samples

Gold Nanoshells Sensitizes Breast Cancer Stem Cells to Radiation Therapy

Microfluidic Device Capable of Trapping Rare Circulating Tumor Cells from Blood of Cancer Patients

TechPrecision Wins Order for Advanced Thin Film Panel Production Equipment

New Nanohole Biosensor to Detect Dangerous Viruses Quickly

Researcher Develops New Microscope to Advance Studies in Biomedical

Nansulate Coating Stops Critical Computer Shutdowns in IMSS Building in Mexico

CEA-Leti to Present New Findings on Silicon Nanowires at IEDM/IEEE 2010

Naval Researchers Create Water-Repellant Nanofilm to Control Directions

Paper-Based Display Technology Featured in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces November Issue

Shrinking the Computer Chip Highlighted in ACS Science Video Series

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