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Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA Announces Launch of NanoPediatrics Program

Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA today announced the launch of the Mattel UCLA NanoPediatrics Program, which will explore the future of personalized medicine for children, including the opportunities and risks involve...

18 Oct 2008

DNA Proven Softer than Previously Thought

The DNA's double helix--the sub-microscopic core of our life--has been the subject of intense study and scrutiny for decades.

17 Oct 2008

Dazzling Photo of Marine Diatoms Wins 2008 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

With the appearance of gracefully swooping beams of light or a colorful array of feathers, a dazzling photo of Pleurosigma (marine diatoms) has won the 2008 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Michael Stringe...

17 Oct 2008

Market for Dielectric Materials for TOP Electronics to Reach US$635 Million by 2015

According to a new report from NanoMarkets LC, an industry analyst firm based here, the market for dielectric materials for thin-film, organic and printable (TOP) electronics will reach more than US $635 million by 2015....

17 Oct 2008

Abraxis BioScience Receives Approval to Market ABRAXANE for Metastatic Breast Cancer in Australia

Abraxis BioScience, Inc., a fully integrated, global biotechnology company, and Specialised Therapeutics Australia Pty Ltd, today announced that approval has been received from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) ...

17 Oct 2008

Researchers Created New Material that Overcomes Major Obstacles to Solar Power

Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture. O...

17 Oct 2008

World's First Color Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrophoretic Display

Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that Samsung Electronics is demonstrating the world's first carbon nanotube-based color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) e-paper at the International Meeting on Information Display (iMiD) at KINTEX, Ilsan, Korea from October 13th through October 17th.

16 Oct 2008

Reducing Pollution from Nanoparticles by 25 Percent

A study undertaken by researchers from the University of Alcalá (UAH) shows that if the "super-polluters", the high-polluting vehicles, such as certain buses and lorries in a poor condition, were removed, pollution from nanoparticles could be reduced by up to 25% and 48%, depending on the parameter analysed. These minute particles cause serious health problems.

16 Oct 2008

Country's Most Elaborate Travel-Wear Keeping Body Cool in Hot Helicopter Cabins

The country's most elaborate travel-wear keeps the body cool in hot helicopter cabins, but transforms into a heat-retaining suit if the helicopter should fall into the sea.

16 Oct 2008

Gold Nanorods Now Available for Non-Invasive Photothermal Cancer Therapy

A revolutionary new gold nanorod manufacturing method has been developed at Nanopartz where their patent pending gold nanorods are proving their ability to be the future in-vivo nanoparticle for the detection and treatme...

16 Oct 2008