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Nanotech Cancer Detector Wins Prize at NanoNexus2007

A plan to use nanotechnology to produce a new type of cancer detector won the third-place award at the NanoNexus2007 conference held last month at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The detector has been under development...

From Nanonex Corporation 10 May 2007

Multifunctional Nanomaterials, Nanodevices Are Workshop Subject

World-class researchers from industry, government and academia will discuss innovations in multifunctional nanomaterials and nanodevices at University at Buffalo's First Annual Integrated Nanostructured Systems Works...

9 May 2007

Optical Properties of Fluorescent Nanoparticles Open Possibilities for Cellular Imaging

Scientists from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have successfully exploited the optical properties of fluorescent nanoparticles to broaden the scope of single-cell microscopy. By using nanoparticles, they succ...

9 May 2007

NanoVic and Victorian Government Launch BioNano Initiatives in US

Nanotechnology Victoria has announced the formation of two major initiatives in bionanotechnology, launched by the Victorian Premier, Mr Steve Bracks, and the Minister for Innovation, Mr John Brumby, at the BIO2007 Confe...

8 May 2007

pHILIP, A New Way to Target and Treat Tumors

Research teams at Yale University and the University of Rhode Island have demonstrated a new way to target and potentially treat tumors using a short piece of protein that acts like a nanosyringe to deliver “tags&r...

4 May 2007

Electrodes on a Chip Simultaneously Monitor Thousands of Molecules

It's electric A chemist at Washington University in St. Louis is making molecules the new-fashioned way - selectively harnessing thousands of minuscule electrodes on a tiny computer chip that do chemical reactions...

3 May 2007

Multinozzle Nanoelectrospray Emitter Array to Accelerate Proteomics Research

In recent years, the science of biology has been dominated by genomics - the study of genes and their functions. The genomics era is now making way for the era of proteomics - the study of the proteins that genes encode....

3 May 2007

Gold Nanoparticles to be Used for an Environmental Test for Mercury

With gold nanoparticles, DNA and some smart chemistry as their tools, scientists at Northwestern University have developed a simple "litmus test" for mercury that eventually could be used for on-the-spot enviro...

2 May 2007

University of Cincinnati Lead The World in Extremely Long Carbon Nanotube Arrays

University of Cincinnati researchers lead the world in the synthesis of extremely long aligned carbon nanotube arrays; research has implications for medical, aerospace, electronic and other applications. UC engineer...

26 Apr 2007

Nanoparticle Treatment Being Tested on Stage 4 Lung Cancer Patients

A cancer-suppressing gene has been successfully delivered into the tumors of stage 4 lung cancer patients via an intravenously administered lipid nanoparticle in a phase I clinical trial at The University of Texas M. D. ...

26 Apr 2007