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Nano-boxes from DNA origami
Danish researchers have made a nano-sized box out of DNA that can be locked or opened in response to 'keys' made from short strands of DNA. By changing the nature or number of these keys, it should be possible to use the boxes as sensors, drug delivery systems or even molecular computers.
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Four-in-one agent for targeted gene suppression in cancer cells
Diagnosis and treatment in one go: Korean researchers led by Tae Gwan Park and Jinwoo Cheon have developed the basis for a four-in-one agent that can detect, target, and disable tumor cells while also making them macroscopically and microscopically visible.
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Crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel
Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys.
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Putting the squeeze on a crystal leads to novel electronics
A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices that remember their last state even after power is turned off.
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Nanotechnology allows better calibration of high-power laser systems
The U.S. military can now calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily thanks to a novel nanotube-coated power measurement device.
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George Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus prize for revolutionizing chemistry of soft materials
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced today that George M. Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, has won the inaugural Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.
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REACH chief: Companies 'failing to properly register chemicals'
European companies are not fully complying with new EU regulation on chemicals (REACH), says the executive director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), Geert Dancet.
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Lactate test made easy
Using a miniaturized measuring system, performance and leisure athletes will in future be able to monitor their lactate readings themselves - including during training.
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World Micromachine Summit highlights technologies impacting energy and the environment
The 15th Annual World Micromachine Summit is an international forum to discuss initiatives in micromachining and nano technologies and the way in which they deliver economic and social outcomes.
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UK House of Lord hears evidence on food nanotechnology
In a hearing held yesterday in the U.K. House of Lords, Professor Ken Donaldson from the University of Edinburgh and Dr Qasim Chaudhry from the Food and Environment Research Agency presented evidence to the Select Committee on Nanotechnologies in Food.
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Symposium zu schichtartigen Nanostrukturen in den Werkstoffwissenschaften
Vom 12. bis 13. Mai 2009 findet in Wittenberg ein internationales Symposium zum Thema 'Schichtartige Nanostrukturen: Polymere mit verbesserten Eigenschaften' statt.
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Sandia scores big in the $777 million DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers program
Sandia expects to become home to one of 46 new multimillion-dollar centers, be a significant partner in three others, and may be involved in another four.
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Photovoltaic systems growing faster than other renewable sources
Photovoltaic power generation grew by 73 percent between 2007-08, making it the fastest growing source of alternative energy, Monica Oliphant, president of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), said upon her arrival in Delaware from Australia to attend the 2009 Karl Boer Solar Energy Medal of Merit ceremony at the University of Delaware on Thursday, May 7.
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Lessons from Schoen - the worst physics fraudster?
How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known?
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Researchers will work to develop flexible, ultra-thin photovoltaic collectors that can be easily and cheaply installed
The University of Arizona in Tucson will become the home of a $15 million Energy Frontier Research Center, or EFRC, one of 46 new centers of its kind announced this week
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Iron nanoparticle tools could detect pancreatic cancer earlier
Emory researchers have created tools for early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer by attaching a molecule that binds specifically to pancreatic cancer cells to tiny nanoparticles made of iron oxide.
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