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siRNA Containing Nanoparticles Show Promise for Cancer Treatment

The use of targeted nanoparticles offers promising techniques for cancer treatment. Researchers in the laboratory of Mark E. Davis at the California Institute of Technology have been using small interfering RNA (siRNA), ...

22 May 2007

Biocompatible Metal Oxide Nanotubes Used for Controlled Drug Delivery

Drug delivery systems have progressed from the teaspoon to time-release capsules to drug-eluting stents. Nanotechnology promises yet another advance by delivering therapeutic agents at desired rates exactly where needed ...

22 May 2007

Nanotechnology Used to Enhance Regeneration of Nerve Cells

The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way. In two presentations at the NSTI Nanotech 2007 Conference, researchers describe the use of nanotechnolog...

22 May 2007

Lasers Zero in on Nanocomposite Labeled Cancer Cells

A nanocomposite particle can be constructed so that it has a mix of properties that would not otherwise happen in nature. By combining an organic matrix with metallic clusters that can absorb light, it is possible to inc...

22 May 2007

Cleaning Solutions for 45nm Wafers

Potential solutions are starting to emerge for preparing wafers for manufacturing at and beyond the 45 nm technology generation, technologists indicated at a recent industry meeting organized by SEMATECH. The 2007 Sur...

21 May 2007

Veeco Appoint New CEO

Veeco Instruments Inc. today announced that John R. Peeler, age 52, will join the Company as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Edward H. Braun, age 67, who will remain Chairman of the Board. This announcement follows V...

19 May 2007

Canon Appeals Court Decision in SED Flat Panel Litigation with Nano-Proprietary

Canon Inc. announced today that it filed on May 15, 2007, a Notice of Appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in its on-going litigation with Nano-Proprietary, Inc. relating to flat-panel SED t...

18 May 2007

Australia's Leading Nanotechnology Education Centre Opens at St Helena

On Friday 18 May 2007, The Honourable John Lenders MLC, Victorian Minister for Education, launched the St Helena Innovative Nanotechnology Education program (“SHINE”) in the Science & Information Technolo...

18 May 2007

Industrial Nanotech Expands Presence into Oceania

Industrial Nanotech has announced today that it has awarded distribution rights for its Nansulate product line to two companies in the Australia/Oceania region. Australia distribution was awarded to Insulwest, a marine, ...

18 May 2007

Green Nanotech Solutions for Cleaning Up the Environment

VeruTEK Technologies has launched and announced the availability of its patent-pending, green nanotech solutions for environmental remediation. VeruTEK’s S-ISCO and S-ESCO solutions remedy environmental contaminati...

18 May 2007

Nanotechnology: Oversight for the 21st Century

As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently stated, nanotechnology has evolved from a futuristic idea to watch to a current issue to address. And for this new technology's enormous potential to improve ever...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 18 May 2007

Researchers Advance Development of Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors

Researchers at Northwestern University have made significant strides in the development of quantum dot infrared photodetectors -- technology that may provide new imaging techniques with applications in medical and biolog...

18 May 2007

New Method Allows a Self-Assembled Molecular Nanolayer to Become a Powerful Nanoglue

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to bond materials that don't normally stick together. The team's adhesive, which is based on self-assembling nanoscale chains, could imp...

18 May 2007

Chemists Use Nanotechnology to Penetrate Plant Cell Walls

A team of Iowa State University plant scientists and materials chemists have successfully used nanotechnology to penetrate plant cell walls and simultaneously deliver a gene and a chemical that triggers its expression wi...

18 May 2007

Official Opening of Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials

U.S. Congressman Timothy Bishop and Patricia Dehmer, DOE’s Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences, will officially open Brookhaven Lab’s new Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), one of ...

18 May 2007