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Air pollution may cause heart disease; nano-sized particles most damaging

Patients prone to heart disease may one day be told by physicians to avoid not only fatty foods and smoking but air pollution too. A new academic study led by UCLA researchers has revealed that the smallest particles from vehicle emissions may be the most damaging components of air pollution in triggering plaque buildup in the arteries, which can lead to heart attack and stroke.

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Northeast region aims to be a major player in emerging health 2.0 sector

Health 2.0 Northeast kicks-off event series on Jan. 23rd in Cambridge with Healthcare, Web 2.0 and social networking leaders.

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Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus briefing: 'Nanotechnology and Innovation, Commercialization, and Prize Competitions'

On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 2:00 pm. in SD-366, the Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus will host a briefing entitled: 'Nanotechnology and Innovation, Commercialization, and Prize Competitions.'

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Report highlights Ohio's nanotechnology strengths and growth

According to a report published today by NorTech and the Nano-Network, Ohio exhibits significant strengths in nanotechnology research, development, commercialization and entrepreneurship; and Northeast Ohio, in particular, is a leader in nanotech innovation. Through better cross-pollination of Ohio's regions and sectors, the State has the potential to become an even greater national player in nanotechnology.

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Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes - visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go.

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Fano effect seen using quantum dots

Scientists have used new optical technologies to observe interactions in nanoscale systems that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle usually would prohibit.

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io9 talks to Kathleen Ann Goonan about nanopunk and jazz

Science fiction author Kathleen Ann Goonan was writing about nanotechnology before most people even know it existed. Her Nanotech Quartet, including her celebrated first novel Queen City Jazz, is about a future United States where nanotech has gone wild and turned cities into living entities - and reprogrammed people to reenact scenarios from US history and literature.

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Cities of the future, part 2: If we build them, will we stay?

An article in TechNewsWorld questions whether the super-cities and hyperstructures under consideration today really new and improved ways for man to exist?

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Discovery cuts cost of next generation optical fibres

Scientists have discovered a way of speeding up the production of hollow-core optical fibres - a new generation of optical fibres that could lead to faster and more powerful computing and telecommunications technologies.

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Albany nanotechnology college draws new lab

A German company is the latest international technology firm to set up shop at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

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Iridescence workshop promotes nature's nanotechnology

The phrase 'sex sells' takes on special significance when scientists and students gather. While nature's showiest subjects step out to promote reproductive success and survival with bright colors, flash and iridescence in feathers, scales, petals and wings, biologists, physicists, behaviorists and materials scientists will delve into whatâ??s behind all the bling at a workshop on 'Iridescence' to be held Feb. 6-9 at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz.

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A bottom-up approach to nanotechnology safety

Within the next month, a panel of advisers to the Department of Public Health in Cambridge will deliver a set of recommendations to the City Council on how to deal with nanotechnology firms operating inside the city's boundaries.

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University of Alberta attempts to balance research and instruction

While undergraduate students may think that the University of Alberta emphasizes research over teaching, those in research say thatâ??s not the case, arguing that good teaching needs good research programs.

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Nanotechnology development initiative proposed in Wisconsin

The NanoSTEM initiative recognizes that the Chippewa Valley is positioned to be a hub of nanotechnology activity. It would provide additional resources to the Universities of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Stout and to Chippewa Valley Technical College, and provide tax incentives for businesses that partner with the schools to develop nanotechnologies.

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New technique could dramatically lower costs of DNA sequencing

Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a strategy for sequencing DNA by driving the molecule back and forth through a nanopore capacitor in a semiconductor chip. The technique could lead to a device that would read human genomes quickly and affordably.

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Polymeric nanoparticles for tumor vaccines

The quest for an effective antitumor vaccine has received a boost from the results of work aimed at developing a nanoparticle that delivers tumor antigens to the immune system cells that trigger antibody production.

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