A strategic plan unveiled today by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center calls upon business, academic and civic leaders to boost the state's support for advanced medical technologies.
Sep 12th, 2007
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Important step toward spin-based quantum computing and spintronics.
Sep 12th, 2007
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A bench top extruder developed at Bradford University is able to collect data about its own operation and to determine a wide range of characteristics of the material with which it is working.
Sep 12th, 2007
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A new topical lotion that penetrates the skin deeply enough to target and eliminate serious skin infections, but without being systemically absorbed, has shown a high degree of safety and tolerability in patients with onychomycosis, or toenail fungus, a new study has shown.
Sep 12th, 2007
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Central Michigan University and Dr. Donald A. Tomalia will be hosting a NSF Workshop at the National Dendrimer Center.
Sep 12th, 2007
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Hybrid Medical Animation announced today that it took home two platinum best of show and two gold at this year's Aurora Awards.
Sep 12th, 2007
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Scientists in Israel are reporting the first simple and inexpensive method for building the large-scale networks of single-walled carbon nanotubes needed for using these microscopic wisps in a future generation of faster, smaller, and more powerful computers and portable electronic devices.
Sep 12th, 2007
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The pressing urgency to arrest climate change and find workable alternatives to major pollutants has prompted experts to examine the impact of nanotechnology on the environment - does nanotechnology hold the key to environmental protection, or is it likely to further aggravate the issue?
Sep 12th, 2007
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There is an article over at the Converting Magazine that says that despite its high cost, new nanoscale developments can provide covert authentication and track-and-trace features for consumer packaged goods.
Sep 12th, 2007
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Chemists have discovered a way to load dozens of molecules of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel onto tiny gold spheres. The result is a tiny ball, many times smaller than a living cell that literally bristles with the drug.
Sep 12th, 2007
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Scientists have developed a new method for controlling the self-assembly of nanometer and micrometer-sized particles.
Sep 12th, 2007
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Over at the IndustryWeek website, Scott E. Rickert, the CEO of Nanofilm, has written an article on nanotechnology in the food industry ("Taking the NanoPulse -- What's for dinner? Nanotechnology, of course").
Sep 12th, 2007
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Chemists have developed a novel way to grow chemically pure, zinc oxide thin films characterized by dense, bristle-like nanostructures and a new method for depositing them on temperature-sensitive substrates, including polymers, plastics and tapes.
Sep 11th, 2007
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About 120 researchers from the network coming from 12 EU Member States or Associated Countries are expected to attend the Nano2Life Autumn scientific meeting held this year in Lund/Sweden between October 22-24.
Sep 11th, 2007
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New, inexpensive fabrication technique can increase production.
Sep 11th, 2007
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A new partnership between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, and a select group of leading universities and corporations will present Rensselaer graduate students with a host of new cutting-edge internship and research experiences.
Sep 11th, 2007
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