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Targeted Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Could Serve as Novel Imaging Agents for Early Detection of Breast Tumors

Current methods of detecting breast cancer suffer from low sensitivity, limited spatial resolution, or the need to use complicated and expensive radioisotope-based technologies. A new report from investigators at the Emo...

21 Jul 2009

Using Subatomic Particles to Treat Cancer

Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting, which takes place from July 26 - 30 in Ana...

20 Jul 2009

Key Innovations Recognized for Advancing Scientific Discovery

Battelle and the national laboratories it manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy have won 24 of the prestigious 2009 R&D 100 Awards, four more than it won in 2008.

20 Jul 2009

Nanotechnology Could Power Superfast Airplanes

An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers has been awarded a $3 million grant to study how fuel additives made of tiny particles known as nanocatalysts can help supersonic jets fly faster and make diesel engines cleaner and more efficient.

20 Jul 2009

Sandia National Lab Researchers Wins Five R+D 100 Awards for 2009

Sandia National Laboratories researchers - competing in an international pool that includes universities, start-ups, large corporations, and government labs - received five R+D 100 Awards this year.

From Sandia National Laboratories 20 Jul 2009

Argonne Lab Researchers Wins Four R+D 100 Awards

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory received four R+D 100 awards as judged by R+D Magazine.

From Argonne National Laboratory 20 Jul 2009

Microscopic Technique to Pursue Individual Nanoparticles as They Make Their Way into Target Cells

In future therapies, synthetic nanoparticles may well be able to ferry medicines and even genes to targets inside the body. These nanovehicles can now be directly tested and optimized using a highly sensitive microscopic...

20 Jul 2009

Unique Nanostructured Coating to Improve Performance and Longevity of Total Joint Replacement Components

Newly announced National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding will expand the reach of ongoing University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) research into a unique nanostructured coating to improve the performance and longevity of total joint replacement components.

19 Jul 2009

First Artificial Graphene has been Created by Researchers

The first artificial graphene has been created at the NEST laboratory of the Italian Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM-CNR) in Pisa. It is sculpted on the surface of a gallium-arsenide semiconductor, to which it grants the extraordinary properties of the original graphene.

17 Jul 2009

Researchers Develop Nanometer-Sized Diamond Ruler

Researchers have fabricated a nanometer-sized ruler to be used as a primary standard, which is integral to nanotechnology research and production, by taking advantage of the crystal structure of diamond.

17 Jul 2009