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Veeco Announces International Nanoscience Conference

Veeco Instruments has announced that it will host the "Seeing at the Nanoscale V" conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), June 24-27, 2007. Celebrating its fifth year, the conference p...

31 Jan 2007

New Single-Molecule Imaging System

Scientists are able to view active molecules within a biological motor of the nanometer scale with the help of a new imaging system far more sensitive and powerful than existing optical microscopes. A Purdue Universi...

31 Jan 2007

Nano Scientists Control Rotation of a Wheel in a Molecule

Researchers at the Centre for Material Development and Structural Studies in Toulouse (CEMES-CNRS) and their colleagues at the Free University of Berlin have, for the first time, managed to control the rotation of a whee...

30 Jan 2007

Coated Nanoparticles Deliver Medications Through Body's Sticky Mucus

The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a way to c...

30 Jan 2007

MIT Studies Nanostructure of Concrete

While government leaders argue about the practicality of reducing world emissions of carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers are seeking ways to make it happen. One group of engineers at MIT decided to focus its work...

30 Jan 2007

Nanorods Create Stimulus-Triggered Gene Therapy Device

One approach to developing tumor-specific drug delivery agents is to create nanomaterials that release a therapeutic payload only after reaching their intended target. Researchers at the University of Aarhus, in Denmark,...

30 Jan 2007