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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

Measuring How Environmental Exposures Affect Health With New Nanotechnology Tool

Engineers at UC Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have received a four-year $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to be shared with researchers at Arizona State University, to dev...

6 Sep 2007

Better Methods of Making CNTs More Predictable

Imagine using minuscule structures the size of molecules to harvest sunlight and convert it into electricity. Or employing the same structures to store hydrogen fuel so that it fits into a car’s gas tank. Or replac...

5 Sep 2007

Fighting E. Coli With Nanotechnology and Carbon Nanotubes

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the American Chemical Society (ACS) ...

31 Aug 2007

Biosensors To Monitor Water For Heavy Metals Contamination

Researchers from CRC CARE are pioneering a world-first technology to warn people if their local water or air is contaminated with dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals and metal-like substances. Andrew McKay, a PhD s...

30 Aug 2007

High Energy Effect in Silicon Nanoparticles Results in More of the Sun’s Energy Being Converted Into Electricity

Octillion Corp. today announced that researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have observed a new and important high-energy effect in silicon nanoparticles – ...

22 Aug 2007

Carbon Nanotube By-product Analysis Helping Nanotechnology Industry Not Make Mistakes of The Past

A new analysis of by-products discharged to the environment during production of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) - expected to become the basis of multibillion-dollar industries in the 21st Century - has identified cancer-causin...

21 Aug 2007

Drug Delivery With Nanogels

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have developed tiny, spherical nanogels that uniformly release encapsulated carbohydrate-based drugs. The scientists created the nanogels using atom transfer radical polymerization (...

21 Aug 2007

Nanoparticles Could be Used to Detect Early Stage Diseases

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. Georgia Institute of Technology ...

21 Aug 2007

Nanotoxicology Study Shows No Pulmonary Toxicity Issues For Type of Carbon Nanotube

Findings by a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee bode well for using single-walled carbon nanohorns, a particular form of engineered carbon-based nanoparticles, for dru...

20 Aug 2007