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Medical Imaging Tool Has A Resolution 1000 Times Greater Than Before

Doctors’ quest to see what is happening inside a living body has been hampered by the limits on detecting tiny components of internal structures and events. Now a team of Stanford University School of Medicine rese...

1 Apr 2008

Manhattan Scientifics to Acquire Metallicum and Market NanoTitanium and Other Ultra Fine Grain Nano Structured Metals

Manhattan Scientifics announced that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with Dr. Terry C. Lowe, president of Metallicum, Inc., to acquire Metallicum together with its patent rights to produce and ma...

1 Apr 2008

Youth to Learn About Nanotechnology at NanoDays Held by UC Santa Barbara

UC Santa Barbara will host special education activities and exhibits, designed to educate and engage the local Santa Barbara community in the growing fields of nanoscale science and nanotechnologies, at UCSB’s Elin...

1 Apr 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Explain How Ice Forms Clouds, Drug Development, Drug Delivery, Nanosensors and Clean Energy to be Discussed at Materials Simulation Laboratory Open Day

Medical, environmental and chemical conundrums – including the mystery of how ice forms in the sky and goes on to create clouds – will be unravelled at a conference hosted by UCL (University College London) t...

31 Mar 2008

Future of Computing Under the Nanotechnology Spotlight as Carbon Nanotubes are Set to Take Over From Silicon Chips

The future of computing is under the spotlight at the Institute of Physics’ Condensed Matter and Materials Physics conference at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London on 26-28 March. The silicon...

31 Mar 2008

Simple Characterisation of Thin Films Thanks to HORIBA Scientific

The fetermination of properties such as film thicknesses, optical constants, surface roughness, and film inhomogeneities just gopt easier witht he AutoSE from HORIBA Scientific.

From HORIBA 29 Mar 2008

Molecular Level Self Assembly Leads to Miniature Stem Cell Laboratories

Imagine having one polymer and one small molecule that instantly assemble into a flexible but strong sac in which you can grow human stem cells, creating a sort of miniature laboratory. And that sac, if used for cell the...

28 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Increase Effectiveness of Injected Drugs

In an article featured on the cover of the March issue of Nature Nanotechnology, Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, presented a proof-of-concept study on a new multistage d...

28 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology and siRNA Based Anticancer Therapies Team Up With Nanoparticles to Fight Cancer

Small pieces of nucleic acid, known as siRNAs (short interfering RNAs), can turn off the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the more promising new classes of anticancer drugs in developmen...

28 Mar 2008

Cancer Tumors Targeted by Nanoparticles

As a wide variety of nanoparticles continue to demonstrate their ability to improve the delivery of imaging agents and drugs to tumors, nanoparticle researchers have turned their attention to the challenge of systematica...

28 Mar 2008