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Nanostructured Membranes Adopt Properties of Guest Molecules

Virginia Tech researchers announced last year that they had created a nanostructured membrane that incorporates DNA base pairs in order to impart molecular recognition and binding ability to the synthetic material. This ...

2 Apr 2007

European Nanobiocom Project Aims to Develop Intelligenet Bone Replacement Materials

More than half a million people in the European Union and a million in the United States suffer from disorders in or serious defects of some part of their bone structure. Operations involving grafts or implants, required...

2 Apr 2007

Formation of Nanobubbles in Boiling Water Captured Witnessed

Using a microscope and some extreme “snapshot” photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University ha...

2 Apr 2007

Never-Before-Seen Configurations of Metal Crystals

Appropriating cellulose fibers from cotton and crystallizing them, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have grown never-before-seen configurations of metal crystals that show promise as components in bios...

29 Mar 2007

Iron Containing Nanoparticles Found to be Toxic to Nerve Cells

Researchers at UC San Diego have discovered that iron-containing nanoparticles being tested for use in several biomedical applications can be toxic to nerve cells and interfere with the formation of their signal-transmit...

29 Mar 2007

Nucleobase-Containing Triblock Copolymers as Templates for the Dispersion of Guest Molecules at the Nanoscale

29 Mar 2007

Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles Used to Label Endothelial Progenitor Cells

To the delight of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, living cells gobbled up fluorine-laced nanoparticles without needing any coaxing. Then, because of the unusual meal, the cells were ...

29 Mar 2007

Nanocrystal Research May Lead to New Generation of Vaccines

Maren Roman is taking nanocrystal research to a new level that may lead to a new generation of vaccines and better computer printer ink. The assistant professor in the wood science and forest products department of t...

29 Mar 2007

Ultrathin, Nanoscale Films Composed of DNA for Gene Therapy

Gene therapy - the idea of using genetic instructions rather than drugs to treat disease - has tickled scientists' imaginations for decades, but is not yet a viable therapeutic method. One sizeable hurdle is getting ...

29 Mar 2007