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Adding Color to Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Customized microscopic magnets that might one day be injected into the body could add color to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), while also potentially enhancing sensitivity and the amount of information provided by images.

19 Jun 2008

Implications of Nanotechnology for Society

With more and more frequency, nanotechnology is being offered to the American public as a transformative technology, with the potential to improve every aspect of our social, physical, and economic well-being. As a r...

18 Jun 2008

New Methods for Measuring Biological Activity of Nanomaterials

As researchers develop an ever-expanding toolkit of nanoparticles for use as drug and imaging agent delivery vehicles, there is a growing need to understand how a given nanoparticle's physical and chemical properties...

17 Jun 2008

Manufacture of Silver Nanorod and Nanowire on the Kilogram Scale

Seashell Technology, a La Jolla, California based nanotechnology development company, announced today that it has successfully scaled manufacturing processes for silver nanorod and nanowire production to kilogram scale quantities.

17 Jun 2008

Researchers Testing New Way to Kill Cancer Cells

Researchers are testing a new way to kill cancer cells selectively by attaching cancer-seeking antibodies to tiny carbon tubes that heat up when exposed to near-infrared light. Biomedical scientists at UT Southwestern...

17 Jun 2008

Nanoparticles Made from Pieces of Tumor Cells

Using nanoparticles made from pieces of tumor cells, investigators from Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France, have developed a new type of anticancer agent that appears to stop tumor cell growth and proliferatio...

16 Jun 2008

Growing Use of Nanotechnology Spurs Research into Nanomaterials and Nanoparticle Risks

Potential risks from the use of nanomaterials will be explored by three Arizona State University engineering faculty in a project supported by a $400,000 grant from the U.S.Department of Energy Office of Biological and E...

16 Jun 2008

Nanoglassblowing Creates Nanosized Fluidic Devices for Isolating and Studying Molecules

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have found beauty in a new fabrication technique called “nanoglassblowing” that creates nanoscale fluidic devices used to isolate and study single molecules in solution

12 Jun 2008

Striped Nanoparticles Can Enter Cells Without Rupturing Them and are Key to Nanoparticle Drug Delivery

In work that could at the same time impact the delivery of drugs and explain a biological mystery, MIT engineers have created the first synthetic nanoparticles that can penetrate a cell without poking a hole in its protective membrane and killing it

10 Jun 2008

New Way of Looking at Earth's First Cells

A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA

5 Jun 2008