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Radius Health Develops New Microemitter Array X-rays Technology at CNSI

While today many medical-imaging needs are being met with traditional vacuum tube–based technology, large segments of the X-ray–imaging market are poorly served, and there is widespread demand for both performance improvements and cost reductions.

3 Apr 2010

New NIST-Designed Instrument for Nanoscale Mechanics Applications

How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of—let's say—gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms? It's a measure of the astonishing progress in nanotechnology that questions that once would have interested only physicists or chemists are now being asked by engineers.

3 Apr 2010

Advanced Nanotechnology Helps Scientists Investigate on Truncated Peptides

Some current therapies being investigated for Alzheimer's disease may cause further neural degeneration and cell death, according to a breakthrough discovery by UC San Diego researchers. By combining three dimensi...

2 Apr 2010

Newly Developed 600nm Silicon Probe Integrates Smoothly into Cell Membrane

A nanometer-scale probe designed to slip into a cell wall and fuse with it could offer researchers a portal for extended eavesdropping on the inner electrical activity of individual cells.

2 Apr 2010

New Method for Melamine Detection in Milk Using Gold Nanoparticles

University of Miami assistant professor in the College of Engineering, Na Li and her collaborators have developed a fast, economical and easy method to detect melamine in milk. Melamine is the compound found in contaminated pet food and in tainted dairy products from China in 2007 and 2008 respectively.

2 Apr 2010

Swiss Biotech Association and IBM Research Launches Life Sciences and Nanotechnology Platform

The Swiss Biotech Association serves this purpose but, due to the wide-spread activities of its members, topic or product focused pooling of interests is a challenge. Therefore, the Association identified industrial and ...

1 Apr 2010

Plants Grow Faster with Micro-Nano Bubble Oxygenated Water

BluePlanet Environmental (FWK, Stock Symbol-9BP), based in Richmond Hill, is pleased to announce the results of its hydroponics plant growth and harvest study. The study was carried out by Bureau Veritas, an independe...

1 Apr 2010

MIT Panel Discusses Innovative Nano-Manufacturing Techniques

Over the last few decades, the sector of the U.S. economy devoted to manufacturing has lost ground to the services sector.

1 Apr 2010

UF Researchers Design and Test Tiny Microchip Integrated Pill System

Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule.

1 Apr 2010

Los Alamos Toxicologists Study Cellular Damage from Fullerenes

A Los Alamos National Laboratory toxicologist and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from "fullerenes"—soccer-ball-shaped, cage-like molecules composed of 60...

1 Apr 2010