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Free access review on DNA nanomachines in Nature Nanotechnology
The latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology contains a free access review article on DNA nanomachines by Jonathan Bath and Andrew J. Turberfield.
May 15, 2007 Read more
Chinese-German joint symposium on nanotechnology
The German Academy of Scientists Leopoldina and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have organized a first symposium on nanotechnology to take place in Beijing on June 2, 2007.
May 15, 2007 Read more
Carbon joins the magnetic club
The exclusive club of magnetic elements officially has a new member-carbon.
May 14, 2007 Read more
New nanotechnology database for societal and ethical implications
The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) at the Illinois Institute of Technology has recently launched NanoEthicsBank.
May 14, 2007 Read more
Nanotechnology to restore Renaissance wall paintings
Italian researchers show that acrylic polymers usually employed in works of art (or architecture) conservation and highly insoluble inorganic deposits containing organic materials can be solubilized in an oil-in-water microemulsions from nonionic surfactants and that a complete cleaning of an acrylic-contaminated painting can be successfully achieved.
May 14, 2007 Read more
Recommendations for European nanotechnology transfer from lab to fab
This report is the result of the two day workshop "Nano2Business" held at Warsaw University of Technology on February 7-8, 2007.
May 14, 2007 Read more
Do-it-yourself: 'Make your own nanotechnology device' workshop
Cover your shoes, put on your goggles and zip up your clean-room suit. You're going to make a nano device.
May 14, 2007 Read more
Revealing photographs of DNA
Smile! Ultrasensitive DNA detection with photographic paper.
May 13, 2007 Read more
The first intellectual property rights auction in Europe will be held in Munich
The event has attracted the interest of 84 sellers who are trading licenses and patents for technologies ranging from industrial coating machinery to treatments for psoriasis and skin cancer.
May 13, 2007 Read more
Magnetic tweezers unravel cellular mechanics
By injecting tiny magnetic beads into a living cell and manipulating them with a magnetic 'tweezer', scientists succeed in getting to know more about the mechanics of the cell nucleus.
May 11, 2007 Read more
Wetter report: New approach to testing surface adhesion
With a nod to one of nature's best surface chemists - an obscure desert beetle - polymer scientists have devised a convenient way to construct test surfaces with a variable affinity for water, so that the same surface can range from superhydrophilic to superhydrophobic, and everything in between.
May 11, 2007 Read more
DNA sieve: nanoscale pores can be tiny analysis labs
Imagine being able to rapidly identify tiny biological molecules such as DNA and toxins using a system that can fit on a microchip or in a drop of salt water. Itâ??s closer than you might think, say a team of researchers.
May 10, 2007 Read more
Magnetic computer sensors may help study biomolecules
New experiments suggest that magnetic switches like those in computers also might be used to manipulate individual strands of DNA for high-speed applications such as gene sequencing.
May 10, 2007 Read more
Nanotechnology features big among National Science Teacher Award winners
This year's winning student teams imagined amazing advancements in fields such as nanotechnology and polymer creation.
May 10, 2007 Read more
Workshop on nanotechnologies for environmental remediation
Presentations from the "Workshop on Nanotechnologies for Environmental Remediation" that was held on April 16 and 17 in Ispra, Italy, are now available for download.
May 10, 2007 Read more
Supercomputer shows that nanolayers have turning sense
Physicists have discovered that on the atomic level nature differentiates between the image and mirror image of magnetic structures.
May 10, 2007 Read more
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