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Using Nanowires to Generate Electricity by Harvesting Energy from the Environment

As the sizes of sensor networks and mobile devices shrink toward the microscale, and even nanoscale, there is a growing need for suitable power sources. Because even the tiniest battery is too big to be used in nanoscale...

28 Sep 2007

IBM to Establish a Worldwide Center for Developing Products and Applications Using its Advanced Cell Chip Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University

IBM announced it will establish a worldwide center for developing products and applications using its advanced Cell chip technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis -- the first such IBM facility on a...

28 Sep 2007

First Ever Atomic Detail Computer Simulation of How Proteins Vibrate in a Crystal

An international collaboration directed by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher has performed the first-ever atomic-detail computer simulation of how proteins vibrate in a crystal. Jeremy Smith, who leads ORNL&...

28 Sep 2007

Tumor Cell Receptor Provides New Therapeutic Target

Working with a line of highly metastatic head and neck cancer cells, a research team at the Winship Cancer Institute and Emory University School of Medicine has found that a specific cell surface receptor present at very...

28 Sep 2007

Novel 3-D Cell Culture Model Shows Selective Tumor Uptake of Nanoparticles

A nanoparticle drug delivery system designed for brain tumor therapy has shown promising tumor cell selectivity in a novel cell culture model devised by University of Nottingham scientists. The results of this resear...

28 Sep 2007

Nanoparticle Could Help Detect Cancer and Other Diseases Early

Most people think of hydrogen peroxide as a topical germ killer, but the medicine cabinet staple is gaining steam in the medical community as an early indicator of disease in the body. Furthering that trend, Georgia I...

28 Sep 2007

PET Scanning Tracks Injected Quantum Dots

A wide variety of experiments have shown that nanoscale quantum dots have the potential to detect early-stage cancer and even monitor the progress of anticancer therapies. But a new study from a team of investigators...

28 Sep 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Have Room for Multifunctionality

In the quest to turn carbon nanotubes from nanoscale wonder into clinically useful drug and imaging agent delivery agents, researchers have often added polymer coatings to the outside of the nanotubes in order to render ...

28 Sep 2007

Gold Nanorods Image Tumors

A growing body of research has demonstrated that gold nanorods can serve as extremely bright imaging agents. Now, by linking gold nanorods to an antibody that binds to tumor cells, researchers at the Georgia Institut...

28 Sep 2007

Nanoparticles Yield Safer Light-Activated Cancer Therapy

Photodynamic therapy, in which light activates a chemical known as a photosensitizer, triggering the production of cell-killing reactive oxygen, has proven itself as an effective therapy for a limited number of cancers. ...

28 Sep 2007

Farfield Scientific Director Wins Prestigious Award

More than 700 of the North West's business elite gathered together at the IoD North West Director of the Year Awards where Dr Simon Carrington of Farfield Scientific Ltd. won the coveted Institute of Directors title ...

28 Sep 2007

Surrey Nanosystems Win Award for Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Tool

Surrey NanoSystems, a spinout from The University of Surrey which has developed a tool for manufacturing carbon nanotubes, has been recognised by an awards scheme that follows ground-breaking research by UK universities ...

From Surrey Nanosystems 28 Sep 2007

Using Bacteria Enzymes to Print Features on Microdevices 100 Fold Smaller Than Before

Using enzymes from E. coli bacteria, Duke University chemists and engineers have introduced a hundred-fold improvement in the precision of features imprinted to create microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip. Their inkles...

27 Sep 2007

Template for Creating One Molecule Wide Wires for Crafting Molecular Level Organic Semiconductors Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

Researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh have created the best method so far of assembling wire-like structures only a single molecule wide, a significant step in science's increasing attempts to reduce the ...

27 Sep 2007

Blending Semiconductors Chip Technology and Nanomachines by Building Atom by Atom

With the help of a device capable of depositing metals an atom at a time in the materials used in computer chips, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has successfully blended modern semiconductor technolo...

27 Sep 2007