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New System Uses Software that Acts like a Robotic Scientist

News - 10 Nov 2009

Every time a person snorts cocaine, it doesn't just go to his or her head: It also provokes a response in the immune system, creating special biomolecules that may serve as a permanent record of...

Simple Way to Induce Nanoparticles to Assemble Themselves into Complex Arrays

News - 22 Oct 2009

If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers with...

New Composite Materials Containing Silk and Metallic Nanoparticles

News - 19 Aug 2009

Using thin films of silk as templates, researchers have incorporated inorganic nanoparticles that join with the silk to form strong and flexible composite structures that have unusual optical and...

Killing Tumor Cells with Nanobees

News - 10 Aug 2009

When bees sting, they pump poison into their victims. Now the toxin in bee venom has been harnessed to kill tumor cells by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The...

Completely New Material Having Significance in Carbon-Carbon Composite Field and Other Applications

News - 10 Jun 2009

JenLaur Ltd., LLC is announcing the discovery of a template for creation of amino acids, nucleosides, and RNA through a proprietary patent pending method of metallofullerene production. This new...

Nanotechnology Could Hurt Small-Scale Farmers

News - 15 Oct 2008

Despite the many benefits of nanotechnology on electronics, medicines, and foods, a non-government organization is now seeing the pains such technology could bring. In the field of nano...

NSF-Funded Chemical Bonding Center Project Provides New Approach for Harnessing Sun's Energy

News - 29 Aug 2008

With the assistance of a five-year $20 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Chemical Bonding Center (CBC) project, called...

Edible Nanoscale Optical Sensors Could Detect Harmful Bacteria in Produce

News - 7 Aug 2008

Imagine an edible optical sensor that could be placed in produce bags to detect harmful levels of bacteria and consumed right along with the veggies. Or an implantable device that would monitor...

Nanoparticle Contamination of Water Depends on Subtle Difference in the Water Itself

News - 5 May 2008

The fate of carbon-based nanoparticles spilled into groundwater – and the ability of municipal filtration systems to remove the nanoparticles from drinking water – depend on subtle...

Nanoparticle Treatment Being Tested on Stage 4 Lung Cancer Patients

News - 26 Apr 2007

A cancer-suppressing gene has been successfully delivered into the tumors of stage 4 lung cancer patients via an intravenously administered lipid nanoparticle in a phase I clinical trial at The...