A new study using solid-state NMR spectroscopy to analyze intact bone paves the way for atomic-level explorations of how disease and aging affect bone.
Dec 4th, 2009
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The new method may revolutionize synthesis of natural products and therapeutic drugs.
Dec 4th, 2009
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An EU-funded research team has developed a biosensor that can identify immune system cells that actively suppress tumour growth.
Dec 4th, 2009
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Several Finnish universities have joined forces to develop an innovative drug delivery method that utilises silicon to transport drugs in the human body. Among other advances, the project has been able to sustain the effect of peptides controlling appetite, which may facilitate the use of nanotechnology for dieting purposes.
Dec 4th, 2009
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The folks at the at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London have made what surely must be the world's smallest sbowman.
Dec 4th, 2009
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Yesterday, ACAMP, the Alberta Centre for Advanced MNT Products, hosted a health and medical seminar, explaining how technologies like nanotechnology, biomaterials and microfluidics can play a powerful role in the creation of innovative healthcare products that help promote health and improve the quality, cost and outcomes of patient care, while opening new markets for Alberta companies worldwide.
Dec 4th, 2009
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Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, whose active region composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon.
Dec 3rd, 2009
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new, more precise method for measuring how much - or how little - nanoscale interfaces love water.
Dec 3rd, 2009
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A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New research details a breakthrough in assembling peptides at the nano-scale level that could make these futuristic visions come true in just a few years.
Dec 3rd, 2009
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After four years the USC Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative has built out the core laboratories specified in Executive Vice President and Provost C. L. Max Nikias' original vision.
Dec 3rd, 2009
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Zur Staerkung und Ergaenzung der Nanowissenschaften an der LMU Muenchen ist an der Fakultaet fuer Physik zum naechstmoeglichen Zeitpunkt eine Professur (W3) fuer Experimentalphysik 'Nanomaterialien und Energieumwandlung' zu besetzen.
Dec 3rd, 2009
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NanoCentral is instituting a Resource Guide to Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials services. Called NanoPerspective, the guide will initially be a UK-focused edition, but will develop over time to include the key European and American markets.
Dec 3rd, 2009
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The UK Government-backed Technology Strategy Board is to manage a unique competition that will see a GBP 5 million ($8.3 million) prize awarded to British business to develop innovative composite manufacturing techniques for high-performance, high-value products.
Dec 3rd, 2009
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This Mission will focus on production processes for manufacturing nanomaterials for renewable energy applications such as photovoltaics, batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, bio-derived energy, thermoelectric and insulation materials.
Dec 3rd, 2009
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Toxicology, mechanical engineering, nanoscience and veterinary medicine are the subjects of four major new EU-funded research initiatives launched recently in the Czech Republic. The projects, which will share over CZK 2 billion (EUR 77 million), are financed under the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation, which receives EU support through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Dec 3rd, 2009
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A team of scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University, and the Indian Institute of Science has made a major step in understanding how molecules locate the genetic information in DNA that is necessary to carry out important biological processes.
Dec 3rd, 2009
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