Electric nanotechnology yarn enables smart textiles to detect blood
A carbon nanotube-coated 'smart yarn' that conducts electricity could be woven into soft fabrics that detect blood and monitor health.
Dec 15th, 2008
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Fingerprints from crime scenes will soon reveal drug abuse
Scientists in the UK have developed a process based on magnetic particles and antibodies that causes fingerprints to fluoresce if they were made by a drug user.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreResearchers watch cellular fission machine in real time
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved one of biology's neatest little tricks: they have discovered how a cell's outer membrane pinches a little pouch from itself to bring molecules outside the cell inside - without making holes that leak fluid from either side of the membrane.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read more11-megapixel micro-mirror array for high-end industrial applications
At today's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC presented a monolithically integrated 11-megapixel micro-mirror array for high-end industrial applications - a world's first both in terms of pixel density and reliability
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreResearchers create new class of fluorescent dyes to detect reactive oxygen species in vivo
Researchers have created a new family of fluorescent probes called hydrocyanines that can be used to detect and measure the presence of reactive oxygen species.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreScientific output in nanoscience increased by nearly 16% per year during the last decade
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the 'Nanotechnology - World R+D Report 2008 - Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology' report to their offering.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreU.S. Agricultural Research Service demonstrates nanotechnology for food safety
A microscopic biological sensor that detects Salmonella bacteria in lab tests has been developed by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist and university colleagues. The sensor could be adapted to detect other foodborne pathogens as well.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreOECD nanotechnology update on current safety developments
On December 10, the OECD Environmental Directorate released a compilation of responses given during the nanotechnology Tour de Table by delegations that attended the 4th Meeting of the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials held at OECD Headquarters in Paris.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreInaugural 'back of the envelope' award funds nanotechnology sensor research
Can a succinct idea written on the back of an envelope have the spark of research genius? Certainly, said University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health (SOPH) Dean Max Michael, M.D., talking about the origins of the inaugural Back of the Envelope Awards, a seed money grant project for health research.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreChina announces milestone in ultracold atom research and quantum information storage technologies
Scientists with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) announced on Nov. 26 the successful development of China's first atom-chip system for achieving Bose-Einstein condensation.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreSynthesizing gold nanoparticles with imidazolium salts opens up new uses in medicine and alternative energy
Scientists at Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have uncovered new properties of imidazolium salts (IMSs), which suggest that they could play a vital role in disease prevention and treatment.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreRochester biologist modifies theory of cells' engines
Researchers have shed new light on how the molecular motors in cells move organelles within cells, and the results may eventually lead to new approaches to fighting pathogens and neurological diseases.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreNanoEthics journal features nanotechnology human enhancement and societal challenges
The Nanoethics Group today announced publishing a symposium of papers focusing on ethical and societal problems arising from human enhancement applications of emerging technologies, especially nanotechnology.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreChemical engineers use carbon nanotubes to monitor chemotherapy, detect toxins at the single-molecule level
MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.
Dec 14th, 2008
Read moreBreakthrough achieved in the production of double-walled carbon nanotubes
Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material.
Dec 14th, 2008
Read moreBangalore Nano National Award goes to Prof. Dipankar Chakravorty
Today, during the 2nd Bangalore Nano 2008 event, Shri. M. Hamid Ansari, H.E. Vice President of India, presented the 2nd Bangalore Nano National Award to Prof. Dipankar Chakravorty, recognizing his awe-inspiring achievements in the field of Nanotechnology.
Dec 13th, 2008
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