Researchers have created the first examples of DNA nanotubes that encapsulate and load cargo, and then release it rapidly and completely when a specific external DNA strand is added.
Mar 17th, 2010
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Duke University researchers have devised a method to dry and preserve proteins in a glassified form that seems to retain the molecules' properties as workhorses of biology.
Mar 17th, 2010
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The features on computer chips are getting so small that soon the process used to make them, which has hardly changed in the last 50 years, won't work anymore. One of the alternatives that academic researchers have been exploring is to create tiny circuits using molecules that automatically arrange themselves into useful patterns.
Mar 17th, 2010
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Wissenschaftlern ist eine quantitative Beschreibung von DNA-Ringen gelungen, sodass nun molekulare Eigenschaften wie etwa die Steifigkeit und der DNA-Durchmesser in nanoskopische Groessen wie Form und Ausdehnung des Polymerrings uebersetzt werden koennen.
Mar 17th, 2010
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In findings that took the experimenters three years to believe, University of Michigan engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated that light itself can twist ribbons of nanoparticles.
Mar 17th, 2010
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Thomson ISI has announced that Nano Research, an English-language journal jointly published by Springer and Tsinghua University Press, is now listed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E).
Mar 17th, 2010
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A promising cure for ovarian cancer seeking funding to begin clinical trials; a person-to-person car-sharing program that could reduce carbon emissions; a device to enable power-generation facilities to save billions of dollars annually - these were the winning ventures
Mar 17th, 2010
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Ein neues von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft gefoerdertes Projekt untersucht Moeglichkeiten, mithilfe von Nanoporen neuartige Speicherbausteine zu erzeugen.
Mar 17th, 2010
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Carl Zeiss will be holding the eleventh 'Day of Microscopy', this time under the motto 'Travel to New Dimensions'.
Mar 17th, 2010
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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Japan Science and Technology Agency are launching the research project 'Quantum Computing in isotopically Engineered Diamond' aiming to novel logic devices potentially enabling faster computing and unconditionally secure communications.
Mar 17th, 2010
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The Federal Institute for Occpuational Safety and Health (BAuA) in Germany has published part 2 of its report on 'Characterisation of ultrafine particles for workers protection'.
Mar 17th, 2010
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Peter Julian, MP for Burnaby-New Westminster, tabled Bill C-494 in the House of Commons that will include nanotechnology in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, and require the Health and Environment Ministers to act.
Mar 17th, 2010
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Iran for the first time published a national nanotechnology standard entitled 'Nanotechnology - Vocabulary and Main Definition'.
Mar 17th, 2010
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New findings suggest stacks of graphene layers could potentially store hydrogen safely for use in fuel cells and other applications.
Mar 17th, 2010
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Since its development in China thousands of years ago, silk from silkworms, spiders and other insects has been used for high-end, luxury fabrics as well as for parachutes and medical sutures. Now, National Science Foundation-supported researchers are untangling some of its most closely guarded secrets, and explaining why silk is so super strong.
Mar 17th, 2010
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Exposure to short pulses of light changes how a polymer surface interacts with water droplets.
Mar 17th, 2010
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