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Dr. Sally Tinkle Joins National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Sally Tinkle as the Deputy Director of the NNCO and Coordinator for Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS). As Deputy...

26 Oct 2010

Nanotechnology Enables Image-Guided Breast Cancer Therapy

By combining an iron oxide nanoparticle, a tumor-targeting peptide, and a therapeutic nucleic acid into one construct, a team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have creat...

26 Oct 2010

Understanding How Cells Respond to Nanoparticles

Gold nanoparticles are showing real promise as vehicles for efficiently delivering therapeutic nucleic acids, such as disease-fighting genes and small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules, to tumors. Now, a team of investig...

26 Oct 2010

Activities Showcase Growing Impact Of Nanotechnology

The month-long series of events and activities gives both children and adults an inside look at nanotechnology, which is described by the National Nanotechnology Initiative as "leading to the next Industrial Revolution," and at CNSE's Albany NanoTech Complex, a $6.5 billion megaplex that is the most advanced research enterprise in the academic world.

26 Oct 2010

Nanotechnology Deliver Combination Chemotherapy Directly to Prostate Cancer Cells

In recent years, studies have shown that for many types of cancer, combination drug therapy is more effective than single drugs. However, it is usually difficult to get the right amount of each drug to the tumor. Now, re...

26 Oct 2010

Tracking Tumor-Targeting Nanoparticles in the Body

Though targeted nanoparticle-based imaging agents and therapeutics for diagnosing and treating cancer are making their way to and through the clinical trials process, researchers still do not have a good understanding of...

26 Oct 2010

NIST Hosts 2011Mobile Microrobotics Challenge

They’ve played soccer, run dashes and deftly inserted pegs into holes—all within a world that can fit inside a single grain of rice. Now, it’s time for microrobots—mechanical workhorses whose dime...

26 Oct 2010

Researchers Awarded Julius Springer Prize for Pioneering Achievements in Nanoscale Physics and Applications

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physical scientist Henri Lezec and Federico Capasso of Harvard have received the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2010 for their "pioneering achievements in nanoscale physics and applications."

26 Oct 2010

WUSTL Co-Hosts 2nd Annual Missouri NanoFrontiers Symposium

Scientists from across Missouri will meet Wednesday, Oct. 27, at Washington University in St. Louis to learn — in one jam-packed day — about the latest advances in nanotechnology and opportunities for commerc...

26 Oct 2010

Optical Surface States in Magnetophotonic Crystals

Magnetophotonic crystals are artificial media that provide efficient coupling of light to their magnetic constituents. Light confinement inside magnetophotonic crystals results in a large enhancement of their magneto-opt...

26 Oct 2010

Neural Recording Capability Of Micrometer Sized VLS-Silicon Wires

In nanotechnology, the so-called vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) method is widely used for synthesizing a variety of one-dimensional wire-structures including carbon nanotubes, and metallic and semiconducting nanowires for fabricating nanodevices.

26 Oct 2010

Table-Top Device Capable of Producing Synchrotron X-Rays

If you say 'synchrotron' to most scientists, they will picture an immense, highly expensive and rather rare facility designed to produce highly intense beams of light, such as the UK's Diamond Light Source th...

26 Oct 2010

Using Calcium Carbonate Templates to Assemble Uniformly Pure Protein Microparticles

Proteins are an interesting class of drugs because they demonstrate high biological activity and are highly specific in their effects. It has become possible to produce more and more proteins with tailored pharmacological properties; however transport and controlled release of the protein drugs in the body have remained a challenge.

26 Oct 2010

Competition Targeting Startup Ventures and Emerging Companies in Nanotechnology.

Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame are teaming up with state officials to offer Indiana's first business plan competition targeting startup ventures and emerging companies in nanotechnology. The Na...

26 Oct 2010

Joint Development Agreement for Highly Targeted Radiotherapy

Lumiphore Inc., a portfolio company of Nanostart AG, has signed a global cooperation with Algeta ASA (Oslo Stock Exchange, ticker: ALGETA), a leading company specializing in innovative radiopharmaceutical therapies to tr...

From Coreo AG 26 Oct 2010