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Analyzing nanoparticle levels in blood

A small but growing group of researchers is quietly developing the methods that are needed to fully characterize a wide variety of nanoscale materials and then detect and quantify their presence in blood and other human tissues.

May 22, 2007 Read more

EU project develops intelligent textiles to measure people's health

Integrating bio-chemical sensors into textiles for continuous monitoring of a person's health is the goal of the EU-funded BIOTEX (Bio-sensing textile for health management) project.

May 22, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology and the environment: beauty rather than beast?

Scientists working in the comparatively unknown field of environmental nanotechnology argue that working at the nanoscale does not have to be to the detriment of the environment.

May 22, 2007 Read more

Secure public spaces via nanotechnology sensors

A new European project is set to improve security for travellers using European airports and other large public spaces.

May 22, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology exhibition in Paris

A topical nanotechnology exposition in Paris until Sept. 2.

May 21, 2007 Read more

Molecular doctors: implantable biocomputers

Molecular devices' remarkably precise scans of cellular activity could revolutionize medicine.

May 21, 2007 Read more

The nanostructure problem

The powerful tools of crystallography, which are currently used to map out the atomic-scale structure of bulk materials, fail on the nanoscale, precisely the domain where nanotechnologists need to characterize and control structure.

May 21, 2007 Read more

Drug eluting nanostructured coatings enable targeted drug therapy for orthopedic patients

Nanotechnology promises yet another advance by delivering therapeutic agents at desired rates exactly where needed in the body.

May 20, 2007 Read more

Nanocomposite labeled cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed using lasers

By combining an organic matrix with metallic clusters that can absorb light, it is possible to incorporate such particles into cells and then destroy those targeted cells with a laser.

May 20, 2007 Read more

Regenerating nerve cells with nanotechnology

The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way.

May 20, 2007 Read more

Targeted nanoparticles incorporating siRNA offer promise for cancer treatment

Researchers have been using small interfering RNA (siRNA), sometimes known as silencing RNA, to "silence" specific genes that are implicated in certain malignancies.

May 20, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology water desalination for Australia

The delivery of energy efficient desalination in Australia received a boost with the establishment of a major new research collaboration between CSIRO and nine of Australia's leading universities.

May 19, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology supercomputing center

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offered the first glimpse of what is planned to be the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center.

May 19, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology pasta: Toward nanoscale electronics

Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic properties than their non-spiraling cousins.

May 18, 2007 Read more

Tunable photonics with high refractive index

Scientists in Hong Kong have created a polymer with a refractive index that can be tuned as high as 1.81

May 18, 2007 Read more

CAS reports progress in developing nanotechnology data storage

New advancements have been scored by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) scientists on ultrahigh-density information storage as they successfully carried out the reversible, erasable and rewritable nanorecording on H2 thin films of rotaxane

May 18, 2007 Read more