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Bacteria Ferry Nanoparticles Into Cells For Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease

Researchers at Purdue University have shown that common bacteria can deliver a valuable cargo of "smart nanoparticles" into a cell to precisely position sensors, drugs or DNA for the early diagnosis and treatme...

14 Jun 2007

Use of Nanomaterials in Stem Cells Grant for University of Surrey Researcher

University of Surrey researchers, Dr Alan Dalton and Dr Richard Sear, have received grants totalling £100k from the SETsquared Applied Collaborative Research Programme and the EPSRC to support collaborative work wi...

12 Jun 2007

New Hybrid Memory Device Using Silicon Nanowires and Traditional Data Storage

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), along with colleagues at George Mason University and Kwangwoon University in Korea, have fabricated a memory device that combines silicon nanowires...

12 Jun 2007

Method for Designing Circuits Using Twisted and Misaligned Nanotubes

Concerned that current methods for making computer chips might become stymied as components keep shrinking, many engineers are looking for circuit building blocks with improved electrical properties. Among the most promi...

9 Jun 2007

QUT Microgravity Tower Will Allow Unique Study of Nanomaterials

Scientists from NASA, Europe and Australia will beat a path to Queensland University of Technology's Carseldine campus when the southern hemisphere's only microgravity tower is completed later this year. The ...

9 Jun 2007

MU Researchers To Examine Environmental, Health Effects of Silver Nanoparticles

Realize it or not, it's a nano world. Many everyday consumer items now utilize the emerging science of nanotechnology, and so, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia will examine whether the technology po...

9 Jun 2007

Copernicus Therapeutics Apply DNA Nanoparticle Technology to siRNA

Copernicus Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that at the American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT) Meeting held in Seattle, Washington, Copernicus showed that the methods used to produce DNA nanoparticles were also very e...

9 Jun 2007

Observing Quantum Transactions on a Single Carbon Nanotube

In the quantum world, photons and electrons dance, bump and carry out transactions that govern everything we see in the world around us. In this week's issue of Science, French and U.S. scientists describe a new tech...

8 Jun 2007

Fluorescent Carbon Nanotubes for Medical Applications

In a way, nanotubes are nature’s smallest candles. These tiny tubes are constructed from carbon atoms and they are so small that it takes about 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human hair....

8 Jun 2007

EU Prefers an Incremental Approach to Regulating Nanotechnology

The 'incremental approach' to regulating nanotechnology, rather than a new regulatory framework, would be the EU's optimum approach to protecting both the health of its citizens and that of the environment, a...

8 Jun 2007