 Gold nanorods brighten future for medical imaging October 25, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers at Purdue University have taken a step toward developing a new type of ultra-sensitive medical imaging technique that works by shining a laser through the skin to detect tiny gold nanorods injected ... | |
 Nanorods show benefits cancer treatment March 14, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Francisco, have found an even more effective and safer way to detect and kill cancer cells. By changing the shapes of ... | |
Advance toward nanotechy approach to protein engineering reported June 09, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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UCLA physicists report a significant step toward a new approach to protein engineering in the June 8 online edition, and in the July print issue, of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. | |
 When it comes to risk, not all nanomaterials are created equal March 25, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The size, type, and dispersion of nanomaterials could all play a role in how these materials impact human health and the environment, according to two groups of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ... | |
Using life's building blocks to control nanoparticle assembly August 22, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Using DNA, the molecule that carries life’s genetic instructions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory are studying how to control both the speed of nanoparticle assembly and the structure ... | |
 Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind' 10 hours ago | User rating: 5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Theoretical physicists from Lancaster University in the UK have designed a nanomotor that operates by a novel mechanism: an electron wind. | |
Nano-sized voltmeter measures electric fields deep within cells November 30, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky medical issues as ... | |
Doping technique brings nanomechanical devices into the semiconductor world September 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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With the help of a device capable of depositing metals an atom at a time in the materials used in computer chips, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has successfully blended modern semiconductor technology ... | |
New nanoparticle vaccine is more effective but less expensive September 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fraction ... | |
Silica smart bombs deliver knock-out to bacteria February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Bacteria mutate for a living, evading antibiotic drugs while killing tens of thousands of people in the United States each year. But as concern about drug-resistant bacteria grows, one novel approach under way at the University ... | |
 Nanoparticle Could Help Detect Many Diseases Early August 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Most people think of hydrogen peroxide as a topical germ killer, but the medicine cabinet staple is gaining steam in the medical community as an early indicator of disease in the body. | |
In 'novel playground,' metals are formed into porous nanostructures June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid. | |
New method for the production of defined microparticles with 3-D nanopatterns November 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Many scientists are working feverishly to develop reliable but simple methods for the production of tiny particles with defined size and shape that are covered with special regular patterns in two or three dimensions and ... | |
 New nanotube findings give boost to potential biomedical applications January 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Carbon nanotubes-cylinders so tiny that it takes 50,000 lying side by side to equal the width of a human hair-are packed with the potential to be highly accurate vehicles for administering medicines and other ... | |
 Nanotube forests grown on silicon chips for future computers, electronics October 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Engineers have shown how to grow forests of tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes onto the surfaces of computer chips to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where the chips connect to cooling devices ... | |
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