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Nanoparticles Advance Light-Activated Cancer Therapy

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a powerful approach for destroying tumors, one that uses light and a light-sensitive chemical to rapidly kill cells. Unfortunately, PDT is associated with significant side effects that large...

22 Feb 2007

NanoSensors Release new Range of Silicon Probes for Magnetic Force Microscopy MFM

NANOSENSORS™ has launched a new series of silicon probes for Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) today. For visualisation of magnetic domains by scanning probe microscopy different magnetic force microscopy probes are neces...

From Nanosensors 22 Feb 2007

FEI Release Powerful Dual Beam FEG SEM for 3D Research and Development

FEI Company released a powerful analytical DualBeam™ for advanced 3D research and development, the Quanta™ 3D FEG. Combining FEI’s latest advances in ion and electron optics and the unique environmental...

22 Feb 2007

The El-Mul Elion Dual Detection Platform to be Integrated into FIB/SEM Instrument Range

The Elion™ Dual Detection Platform, El-Mul Technologies’ revolutionary electron and ion beam hybrid detector, has been chosen by a leading FIB/SEM instrument manufacturer for integration into its advanced lin...

22 Feb 2007

Nanopores in Carbon Briquettes Derived from Corn Make Effective Fuel Tanks

Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh th...

21 Feb 2007

Aphios Awarded Patent for Nanospheres Encapsulating Therapeutic Proteins

Aphios Corporation today announced that it was awarded United States Patent No. 7,147,806 B2 for “Polymer Microspheres/Nanospheres and Encapsulating Therapeutic Proteins Therein.” Biologically adherent poly...

21 Feb 2007

Nanotechnology Breakthroughs in Medicine Webcast

What if doctors in Kenya could equip cells of the retina with photoswitches that can be flipped on, essentially making blind nerve cells see and restoring light sensitivity in people with degenerative blindness? What if ...

21 Feb 2007

Hyphenated Systems Announces Microfluidics Joint Development Program with UCSB

Hyphenated Systems, a world-wide provider of hybrid microscopy solutions for three-dimensional (3D) imaging and metrology in micro- and nanotechnology, announced today a joint development program (JDP) with the Universit...

21 Feb 2007

pSivida Announces US$9m Placement

pSivida Limited has announced the private placement, subject to shareholder approval, of 50 million fully paid ordinary shares issued at A$0.23 each to raise A$11.5m (US$9m at current exchange rates) before costs t...

From pSivida Corp 20 Feb 2007

EPA Issues Nanotechnology White Paper

EPA’s Science Policy Council has issued the Nanotechnology White Paper (EPA/100/B-07/001, February 2007). The purpose of the White Paper is to inform EPA management of the science issues and needs associated with n...

20 Feb 2007

ASU Studies Impact of Nanoparticles on Aquatic Organisms

Sun screen - you can't live without it in the Southwest. But the very product that is protecting human skin from harmful solar rays could be wreaking havoc on the environment because of one ingredient. Researchers...

20 Feb 2007

QUT Scientists Develop Ceramic Membranes for Nanofiltration

HIV may one day be able to be filtered from human blood saving the lives of millions of people, thanks to a world-first innovation by Queensland University of Technology scientists. QUT scientists have developed special...

19 Feb 2007

Xerox, Government of Alberta and NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology Invest $4.5 Million in Nanotechnology

In Canada's first major public-private nanotechnology research partnership, the Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC), the National Research Council Canada (NRC), the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT...

19 Feb 2007

Precise Control of Water Through a Nanotube Membrane Demonstrated

By fusing wet and dry nanotechnologies, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found a way to control the flow of water through carbon nanotube membranes with an unprecedented level of precision. The resear...

19 Feb 2007

Scientists Use Quantum Dots and Nanoparticles to Improve Identification of Disease Biomarkers

Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory ...

19 Feb 2007

Nanotechnology News

Nanoparticles Advance Light-Activated Cancer Therapy

NanoSensors Release new Range of Silicon Probes for Magnetic Force Microscopy MFM

FEI Release Powerful Dual Beam FEG SEM for 3D Research and Development

The El-Mul Elion Dual Detection Platform to be Integrated into FIB/SEM Instrument Range

Nanopores in Carbon Briquettes Derived from Corn Make Effective Fuel Tanks

Aphios Awarded Patent for Nanospheres Encapsulating Therapeutic Proteins

Nanotechnology Breakthroughs in Medicine Webcast

Hyphenated Systems Announces Microfluidics Joint Development Program with UCSB

pSivida Announces US$9m Placement

EPA Issues Nanotechnology White Paper

ASU Studies Impact of Nanoparticles on Aquatic Organisms

QUT Scientists Develop Ceramic Membranes for Nanofiltration

Xerox, Government of Alberta and NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology Invest $4.5 Million in Nanotechnology

Precise Control of Water Through a Nanotube Membrane Demonstrated

Scientists Use Quantum Dots and Nanoparticles to Improve Identification of Disease Biomarkers

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