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Nanotechnology advances brain cancer detection and therapy

Brain cancer is one of the most aggressive and lethal of malignancies, made even more difficult to treat by the fact that most anticancer drugs have a hard time even getting to the tumors. Now, studies by three different groups of researchers show that targeted nanoparticles hold promise for solving this delivery problem.

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Researchers probe biological fate of carbon nanotubes with Raman spectroscopy

Carbon nanotubes have shown real promise as highly accurate vehicles for delivering antitumor agents into malignant cells, but a dearth of data about what happens to the tubes after they discharge their medical payloads has been a major stumbling block to progress. Now, two studies at the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response have revealed some reassuring answers after months of tracking the tiny tubes inside mice.

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Religion colors Americans' views of nanotechnology

Is nanotechnology morally acceptable? For a significant percentage of Americans, the answer is no, according to a recent survey of Americans' attitudes about the science of the very small.

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Nanotechnology's health, environmental impacts worry scientists and the public

Scientists and the public agree that the promise of nanotechnology is great, but there are risks to it and they should be governed accordingly.

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Second announcement and call for papers: Managing the uncertainty of nanotechnologies

Second announcement and call for papers for the conference 'Managing the uncertainty of nanotechnologies. Challenges to law, ethics and policy making' in Rovigo, Italy, on May 22-23, 2008.

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EUR 61 million competition for innovative nanotechnology project starts in Germany

Next Monday, February 18, 2008, the Innovation Ministry of the German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will kick off the 1st NRW-Nanokonferenz (in German) in Dortmund with a EUR61 million (approx. $85 million) endowed competition for scientists and entrepreneurs.

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Is hybridoma production about to take a quantum leap forward?

Recently published research has established the ability of Neowater to enhance the various processes involved in the production of pure human monoclonal antibodies by refining the standard hybridoma production process.

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U.S. leads world in PHEV battery R&D, lags in capabilities to make them

During opening testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Argonne's Don Hillebrand noted that while the United States is the dominant player in the development of battery materials and chemistries for hybrid vehicles and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) with the help of progressive research conducted at U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, including Argonne, the nation lags behind the world in adopting capabilities to make such batteries.

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$1 million Carver Trust grant will help buy high-resolution microscope

he Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa has made a $1 million grant to support the University Iowa's acquisition of a field emission transmission electron microscope (FETEM) that will advance biomedical and physical science research and education at the UI.

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Chemist explores nanotechnology to address greenhouse gases at source

Instead of trying to produce energy without creating CO2 gases, researchers are looking for a way to sequester the greenhouse gases that are produced at the source so they don't reach the atmosphere, literally creating a kind of chemical filter for, say, a coal power plant.

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The most nanotechnologically advanced dog bed on the market

Here is our Slow News Friday story for today. Nano Pet Products, LLC, a company dedicated to bringing cleaner and healthier pet products to pet owners worldwide through nanotechnology, debuts its Dog Gone Smart Wear brand dog apparel.

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Beautiful nanotechnology images from the SPMage competition

To recognize the continuing contributions that Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs) have made to advances in Nanotechnology, an International SPM Image Competition last year identified important and remarkable SPM images.

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ETH Zurich Postdoc and Ph.D. Positions in Nano-Optics and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

The Laboratory of Metal Physics and Technology, Department of Materials at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) is looking for one postdoc and two Ph.D. candidates interested in nano-optics and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).

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Protein discovery paves way for development of better medical implants

Scientists from the University of Reading have discovered that proteins stick, slide and cluster on solid surfaces. The way in which proteins cluster on a surface affects their activity and the findings from this research will help to develop new materials for use in medical and dental implants.

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Tiny material, big risk

Liming Dai, a University of Dayton chemical and materials engineering professor, and Yiling Hong, a UD assistant biology professor have made a breakthrough in determining the safety of microscopic carbon materials sometimes used for gene, drug or cancer therapies.

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British Pharmaceutical Conference 2009 science and practive chairs announced

Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu, Chair in Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at the School of Pharmacy, University of London, and Peter Noyce, Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Director of The Workforce Academy, The University of Manchester, will be the respective Science and Practice Chairs for the 2009 British Pharmaceutical Conference.

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