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Nanomedicine, Hype or Reality?

Nanotechnology is rapidly redefining fields like imaging, diagnosis, drug delivery, regenerative medicine and biomaterials as well as underpinning the development of new generations of medical products. Many of these adv...

23 Nov 2007

Farfield Scientific Awarded Contract to Develop Diagnostic Test for Hepatitis A, B and C

Farfield Scientific is delighted to have recently been awarded a prestigious contract as part of a pan-European research initiative to develop a diagnostic test for Hepatitis A, B and C. The project, code named SABIO, de...

23 Nov 2007

Pioneers in Miniaturisation Prize Winner Named For Promoting Miniaturisation thThrough Micro and Nanotechnologies

Manabu Tokeshi ha s been named as the 2007 winner of the Pioneers in Miniaturisation prize. The prize, first awarded in 2006, was established by two of the major players in the miniaturisation sector, Lab on a Chip and C...

23 Nov 2007

UMass Amherst Nanomedicine Institue to Develop Nanostructures for Biomedical Research

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is host to a new nanomedicine institute focused on developing super-tiny structures for biomedical research. The institute was launched with $200,000 in start-up funds from UMass P...

21 Nov 2007

Remote Controlled Nanoparticles Deliver Drugs Straight to Tumours

MIT scientists have devised remotely controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field, release drugs to attack tumors. The innovation, reported in the Nov. 15 online issue of Advanced Materials, c...

19 Nov 2007

Hydrogen Experiment Reveals Transition Between Quantum and Microscopic Worlds with Implications for Quantum Computing

An international investigation involving the participation of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) has reproduced the experiment of Thomas Young in a molecule of hydrogen, the smallest molecula...

16 Nov 2007

Casimir Force to Assist in Creating Nanomachines

A pioneering team from the University of Leicester is seeking to harness a force of nature only measured accurately a decade ago - to help develop the technology of tomorrow. Their work will have applications in what ...

15 Nov 2007

Multiple Medical Uses for Nanoparticle Embedded Microcapsules

Jeff Bulte believes good things come in small packages - very, very small packages. Bulte, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member affiliated with the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, and several of his colleagues have...

14 Nov 2007

Micro Microwaves Bring Pinpoint Heating to Miniature Laboratory Work

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST) and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world’s smallest microwave oven, a tiny mechanism that can heat a pinhead-s...

12 Nov 2007

Nanofibres and Stem Cells Form Bone and May Bring a Revolution in Orthopedic Science

Research on stem cell interaction with new biomaterial has yielded three (3) successful publications in international scientific journals by National University of Singapore and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative ...

9 Nov 2007