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No labels, no new safety testing: Nanotechnology foods pose toxic risks

Food, packaging and agricultural products containing manufactured nanomaterials pose a toxic health risk and should be suspended from sale until new safety testing, laws and appropriate labelling are created, a new report says.

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Thinner, stronger and more flexible research

You wouldn't normally associate golf balls with condoms but for University of Queensland researcher Dr Darren Martin, it is all about covering things.

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Expert explains challenges facing nanotechnology

Filling the major gaps that exist in the understanding of the health, safety, environmental and societal impacts of nanotechnology is critically important to its long term success, a researcher said yesterday. Lori Sheremeta, research officer at the Canadian Institute for Nanotechnology, was making a presentation on ?Nanotechnology Stewardship? on the concluding day of the first international symposium on applied nanomedicine, hosted by Qatar Foundation.

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Handheld DNA detector

A researcher at the National University at San Diego has taken a mathematical approach to a biological problem - how to design a portable DNA detector. He describes a mathematical simulation to show how a new type of nanoscale transistor might be coupled to a DNA sensor system to produce a characteristic signal for specific DNA fragments in a sample.

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Measurement technique probes surface structure of gold nanocrystals

Researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a sensitive probe that can identify and characterize the atomic structure of gold and other nanocrystalline materials.

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New television series 'Nanotechnology: The Power of Small'

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) and National Science Foundation (NSF) will host the Washington, DC, premiere event for the television series "Nanotechnology: The Power of Small" on Wednesday evening, April 2.

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CATRENE announcing first call for project proposals

CATRENE, the recently approved EUREKA Cluster for Application and Technology Research on NanoElectronics is extending an invitation to Europe?s high tech industry, small and medium sized enterprises as well as research institutes and academia to participate in its first call for project proposals.

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Workshop on research on the safety of nanomaterials: reviewing the knowledge gaps

Workshop on safety of nanomaterials on April 17-18, 2008 in Brussels, Belgium.

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Pledge on regulation of nanotechnology products

After Wayne Swan took the budgetary axe to the $21.5million Australian National Nanotechnology Strategy in January, Science Minister Kim Carr yesterday vowed to establish a system for regulating the commercial fruits of nanotechnology.

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All done with mirrors: microscope tracks nanoparticles in 3-D

A clever new microscope design allows nanotechnology researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to track the motions of nanoparticles in solution as they dart around in three dimensions. The researchers hope the technology, which NIST plans to patent, will lead to a better understanding of the dynamics of nanoparticles in fluids and, ultimately, process control techniques to optimize the assembly of nanotechnology devices.

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Innovative injection process without the needle

The Berlin-based company Capsulution Nanoscience AG, has signed a cooperative contract with the Tuebingen-based biotechnology company EMC microcollections GmbH and Charite University Berlin. The aim of this three-year long cooperation is the development of the topical vaccine, i.e. vaccines which, by simple application to the surface of the skin, can be used to treat cancer or to prevent infectious diseases.

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Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference call for poster sessions and abstracts

The nation's best regional 'small tech' conference, co-hosted by the Washington Technology Center and Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) will be back for a fifth year after last year's wildly successful event. You are invited to participate!

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$6 million research lab will produce ethanol and other biofuels from grasses and biomass

A former agricultural engineering, power and machinery lab at Cornell is being gutted to make way for a state-of-the art Biofuels Research Lab that will convert perennial grasses and woody biomass into ethanol and other biofuels and will occupy the entire east wing of Riley Robb Hall by January 2009

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Strategic plan for NIOSH nanotechnology research: Filling the knowledge gaps

NIOSH, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health posted on its website an updated version of its strategic plan for reseach in nanotechnology through the year 2012.

March 9, 2008 Read more

Physicists transcribe entanglement into and out of a quantum memory

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have laid the groundwork for a crucial step in quantum information science. They show how entanglement, an essential property of quantum mechanics, can be generated between beams of light, stored in a quantum memory, and mapped back into light with the push of a button.

March 8, 2008 Read more

Research has touch of gold

Radioactive gold nanoparticles developed at the University of Missouri could be the next great leap in cancer-fighting technology.

March 8, 2008 Read more