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Nanoswimmers Make Big Splash for Improved Drug Delivery

They may never pose a challenge to Olympic superstar Michael Phelps, but the "microswimmers" developed by researchers in Spain and the United Kingdom could break a long-standing barrier to improving delivery of...

12 Jan 2009

Unconventional Superconductivity in New Iron Arsenide Compounds

Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot be explained by conventional theories.

11 Jan 2009

Mapping Local Strain and Cracks of Nanoscale Dimensions

A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared mapping of strain fields in semiconductors.

11 Jan 2009

Mechanistic Details Revealed Through Unique Light Source Technique

Using two simultaneous light-based probing techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy' (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, a team of researchers has illuminated important details about a class of enzymes involved in everything from photosynthesis to the regulation of biological clocks.

10 Jan 2009

Aposense Wins 2008 European Technology Innovation of the Year Award

Frost + Sullivan today announced that the 2008 European Technology Innovation of the Year Award in molecular/cellular imaging has been bestowed upon Aposense Ltd., for its pioneering molecular platform for the targeting ...

10 Jan 2009

Project to Study Hazardous Effects of Nanomaterials on Immune System

Researchers from Sweden, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States have been awarded € 3.358.500 from the European Commission to study the hazardous effects of engineered nanomaterials on t...

10 Jan 2009

Kylin Therapeutics Receives Grant to Further Develop Disease-Fighting Technology

Kylin Therapeutics announces plans to further develop a Purdue University technology that could allow physicians to target drug delivery for treatment of diseases ranging from AIDS to cancer.

9 Jan 2009

Nanotechnology - New Weapon to Fight Cholesterol Problems

Buttery Christmas cookies, eggnog, juicy beef roast, rich gravy and creamy New York-style cheesecake. Happy holiday food unfortunately can send blood cholesterol levels sky high. Northwestern University scientists now...

9 Jan 2009

Visualization and Manipulation of Atoms Using Nanotechnology and AFM

An international team of scientists, among them researchers from the department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), present a new method to manipulate atoms. Nanot...

9 Jan 2009

Using Nano Balls to Manipulate Properties of Glass

Liquid or glass, hard or soft - researchers at the University of Twente are investigating a new 'model material' that can adopt a series of different properties. This is possible because of miniscule balls of knotted polymers which become enlarged as the temperature drops.

9 Jan 2009

Largest Annual Nanotechnology Event in Europe Moves to Berlin in 2009

Europe's largest annual nanotechnology conference and exhibition, Nanotech Northern Europe moves to Berlin, Germany's capital city at the heart of Europe becoming Nanotech Europe. In its fifth year, Nanotech Euro...

9 Jan 2009

Researchers Develop Theoretical System Allowing Single Photons to be Controlled Reliably

Modern electronics is built upon the control of electric charges through an electric field. Computing based on photons rather than electrons, on the other hand, promises significantly faster computation and information processing. An international team of researchers has now developed a theoretical system that would allow single photons to be controlled reliably.

8 Jan 2009

Northwestern University to Create Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation Alliance

Northwestern University and Baxter Healthcare Corporation will create a multidisciplinary research and innovation alliance, the two entities announced today. Under the three-year renewable agreement, Baxter will fund...

8 Jan 2009

TIRF Ideal for Reproducible Microscopic Examinations of Near-Cell Membrane Processes

With Laser TIRF 3, Carl Zeiss infuses its imaging system for Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence microscopy with an entirely new level of quality. The TIRF system is suitable for reproducible microscopic examinations of near-cell membrane dynamic processes and interactions of single molecules in cell-free systems with high time resolution.

8 Jan 2009

Milestone Towards Fabricating Low-Cost GaN Power Devices

IMEC, Europe's leading independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics, and AIXTRON, the world leader in metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment, have demonstrated the growth of high-qua...

8 Jan 2009