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Scientist Studies How to Turn Cancer Drugs Into Their Own Delivery Systems:Key is incorporating water properties into effective nanoscale systems
In recent years, many popular cancer treatments have been using nano, that is, tiny particles of polymers or carbon-based materials to transport chemotherapy drugs to tumors in a way that specifically...
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New CRAIC Technologies' 20/30 PV - Seamless Fluorescence & Raman Microspectroscopy and more from the UV to the NIR
Elliot Scientific is now offering the new 20/30 PV Series UV-Vis-NIR Microspectrophotometer from CRAIC Technologies to scientists in the UK and Ireland. As the latest product of the company, the 20/3...
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Material turns 'schizophrenic' on way to superconductivity - Strange state: Some electrons remain mobile while their neighbors are locked down
Rice University physicists on the hunt for the origins of high-temperature superconductivity have published new findings this week about a material that becomes "schizophrenic" -- simultaneously exhib...
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Graphene is theme for Festivals science communicator
A University of Manchester graphene researcher and lecturer who has encouraged more than 20,000 people to learn about the amazing potential of the wonder material has won this year's Joshua Phillips A...
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LamdaGen Corporation Announces Japan Patent Issuance for Enzymatic Diagnostic Assays on Plasmonic Nano-Sensors: Patent for Ultra-Sensitive In-Vitro and POC Diagnostic Technology Platform
LamdaGen Corporation, a nano-technology platform company that provides plasmonic sensors and systems for diagnostics and life sciences, announced the Japanese Patent Office issuance of patent number 5...
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NanoRosetta Kickstarter project - Printing and archiving the Human genome for the next 10,000 years using nanotech
NanoRosetta uses a new photolithography method to print microscopic, analog data on nickel discs and is looking to change the way we think about the long-term archiving of data. With a lifespan of 10,...
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IBN Executive Director Professor Jackie Y. Ying elected as 2013 Materials Research Society Fellow
IBN Executive Director Professor Jackie Y. Ying was recently selected as a 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow for her distinguished contributions to the synthesis of advanced nanostructured...
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ORNL microscopy uncovers "dancing" silicon atoms in graphene
Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Manchester leads the way in graphene membrane research
University of Manchester graphene researchers have been awarded a £3.5m funding boost that could bring desalination plants, safer food packaging and enhanced disease detection closer to reality.
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Combining Nanowires and Memristors Could Lead to Brain-like Computing
For decades now, researchers have been trying to get computers to behave like artificial brains instead of merely binary data crunchers. One of the obstacles in creating this capability has been that...
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Darwinian Evolution of new Chemistry and Nano-Medicine
Evolutionary chemistry
An entirely new way of thinking about pharmaceuticals - this is the goal of Morten Meldal , one of two new Lighthouse Professors' in chemistry at the University of Copenhage...
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VivaGel® Study Demonstrates Reduced Risk of Recurrent BV
1% VivaGel® demonstrated reduced risk of recurrent BV and delayed time to first recurrence in a Phase 2 study
Several efficacy measures employed; all showed reduced risk with 1% VivaGel®
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A giant step toward miniaturization: Nanotechnology transforms molecular beams into functional nano-devices with controlled atomic architectures
Bottom-up synthesis of nanowires through metal-catalyzed vapor phase epitaxy is a very attractive process to generate high-quality nanowires thus providing an additional degree of freedom in design of...
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Building quantum states with individual silicon atoms
By introducing individual silicon atom 'defects' using a scanning tunnelling microscope, scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have coupled single atoms to form quantum states.
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Brain Activity Mapping Project aims to understand the brain
The scientific tools are not yet available to build a comprehensive map of the activity in the most complicated 3 pounds of material in the world the human brain, scientists say in a newly published...
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State-of-the-art Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre opens in Ontario, Canada
Recently, businessman Mike Lazaridis encouraged those present at the opening ceremony of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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UV-visible-NIR, Fluorescence and Raman Microspectroscopy With the New 20/30 PV from CRAIC Technologies
CRAIC Technologies, the worlds leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microanalysis solutions, is proud to introduce the 20/30 PV microspectrophotometer. As the new flagship product for CRAIC Technologi...
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Unsettled economic situation leaves mark on microtechnology industry
A year ago, the microtechnology, nanotechnology, and advanced materials industry looked out on the year 2012 with quite positive expectations. As it turned out, the unstable economic situation has lef...
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Cartilage damaged from exercise may aid in early osteoarthritis detection
Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disorder, affecting about one-third of older adults, and currently there is no cure. A study published by Cell Press April 2nd in the Biophysical Journal reveal...
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New diagnostic technology may lead to individualized treatments for prostate cancer: NanoVelcro Chip device captures and isolates potentially high-risk cancer cells
A research team jointly led by scientists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California, Los Angeles, have enhanced a device they developed to identify and "grab" circulating tumor...
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