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Gene Therapy Using Biodegradable Polymers

In work that could lead to safe and effective techniques for gene therapy, MIT researchers have found a way to fine-tune the ability of biodegradable polymers to deliver genes. Gene therapy, which involves inserting n...

11 Sep 2007

Titanium Oxide Nanotubes and Nanorods Being Made in New Ways for Applications Like Sunscreens and Catalysts

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed new ways to make or modify nanorods and nanotubes of titanium oxide, a material used in a variety of industrial and medical ...

11 Sep 2007

Scientists Develop New Nanolithography Technique For Drawing Nanosized Features

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) and liquid...

11 Sep 2007

Fighting Cancer With Liquid Crystal Pharmaceuticals

A partnership between Kent State University, Summa Health System and IC-MedTech Inc. has yielded an innovative liquid crystal technology that offers the promise of new drugs which may more effectively manage cancer and o...

10 Sep 2007

Super Large Molecule to Adorn Building

The Bristol skyline now has an exciting addition of a large-scale representation of a carbon molecule installed on the new Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information in the heart of the University’s precinct. ...

10 Sep 2007

Microscopy Breakthrough Shows Smallest Details Ever Seen by Electron Microscopy

The highest-resolution images ever seen in (S)TEM electron microscopy have been recorded using a new instrument developed jointly by U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, FEI Company and CEOS GmbH, in Heidelbe...

10 Sep 2007

MEMS Display and Imaging Company Wins 2007 North American American Technology Innovation Award

Based on its recent impact analysis of MEMS-based sensors and actuators on industrial automation, Frost & Sullivan has presented Microvision, Inc. with the 2007 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technolog...

10 Sep 2007

Quantum Dot Nanoparticles to be Basis for Next Generation Solid State Lighting

American Elements announced the formation of a new product group to manage the production, sales and marketing of its quantum dot nanopowder production facilities. The new division was spun off from the Nanometals™...

10 Sep 2007

Finalists Announced For 2007 Feynman Prize

Foresight Nanotech Institute, a leading think tank and public interest organization focused on nanotechnology, announced the finalists for the 2007 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes. These prestigious prizes, named in h...

10 Sep 2007

The XGT-7000, The Latest in Energy Dispersive X-ray Fuorescence (EDXRF) Microscopes

HORIBA Jobin Yvon is pleased to offer the XGT-7000, the latest system in the XGT series of energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) microscopes. This ground breaking instrument offers fast, high sensitivity qua...

7 Sep 2007

Manipulating Atoms and Seeing The Results

In 1959, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman presented a talk entitled “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom. “ Feynman concluded that there was no physical reason why humans couldn't manipulate atoms....

7 Sep 2007

New Benchmarks in Precision Control of Jet Printing

By combining electrically induced fluid flow with nanoscale nozzles, researchers at the University of Illinois have established new benchmarks for precision control and resolution in jet-printing processes. “We ...

7 Sep 2007

Important Advances Towards Quantum Computing

Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky." In doing so, the researchers have made an advance...

7 Sep 2007

Best Nanoimages in the World Arise from Scanning Probe Microscope Image Contest

The International Scanning Probe Microscope Image Contest (SPMage07) has announced their five awarded images. In this first edition around 300 images have been submitted from over the world. Choosing the best images has ...

7 Sep 2007

Nanomedicine, is it the Real Deal?

The Institute of Nanotechnology is organising a public engagement evening ‘Nanomedicine…hype? Or a real revolution in healthcare?’ on the 28th November at the Royal College of Surgeons of London. This ...

6 Sep 2007