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| SCI | Bio-enabled Technique Produces Nanocomposites
Using thin films of silk as templates, researchers have incorporated inorganic nanoparticles that join with the silk to form strong and flexible composite structures that have unusual optical and mechanical properties. (Embargo expired on 19-Aug-2009 at 12:00 ET.)
Fall 2009 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society | 19-Aug-2009
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| SCI | Multi-Laboratory Study Sizes Up Nanoparticle Sizing
As a result of a major inter-laboratory study co-managed by NIST and the National Cancer Institute, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions. | 11-Aug-2009
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| SCI | ‘Nanospears’ Could Lead to Better Solar Cells, Lasers, Lighting
Growing – and precisely aligning – microscopic, spear-shaped zinc oxide crystals on a surface of single-crystal silicon, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology may have developed a method to make more efficient solar cells.
Chemistry of Materials, 11-Aug-2009 | 11-Aug-2009
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| SCI | New Light-Emitting Biomaterial Could Improve Tumor Imaging
A new material developed at the University of Virginia – an oxygen nanosensor that couples a light-emitting dye with a biopolymer – simplifies the imaging of oxygen-deficient regions of tumors. Such tumors are associated with increased cancer aggressiveness and are particularly difficult to treat.
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| SCI | UC Santa Barbara and Burnham Institute for Medical Research Announce Director of New Joint Research Center for Nanomedicine
The Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the University of California, Santa Barbara have named leading biomedical researcher Jamey D. Marth director of a new joint Center for Nanomedicine that will be established at UCSB. | 10-Aug-2009
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| SCI | New Microchip Technology Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions at Once
UCLA researchers have developed technology to perform more than a thousand chemical reactions at once on a stamp-size, PC-controlled microchip, which could accelerate the identification of potential drug candidates for treating diseases like cancer.
Lab on a Chip, 21-Aug-2009 | 03-Aug-2009
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| MED | Presentation at AAPM Meeting on Nanoparticles That Package Cancer-killing Isotopes and Deliver Them Into Cancer Cells
A group of researchers at Johns Hopkins University has designed nanoparticles that can carry cancer-treating radioisotopes through the body and deliver them selectively to tumors. Today in Anaheim, CA, they will report the latest results of their research, including studies in animal models, at the 51st meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). (Embargo expired on 28-Jul-2009 at 18:00 ET.) | 28-Jul-2009
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| Teeny-tiny X-Ray Vision
The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision. A team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists, and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina has developed new lower-cost X-ray tubes packed with sharp-tipped carbon nanotubes for cancer research and treatment. (Embargo expired on 28-Jul-2009 at 14:00 ET.) | 28-Jul-2009
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| SCI | All-In-One Nanoparticle: A Swiss Army Knife for Nanomedicine
For the first time researchers have combined nanoparticles used for medical imaging and therapy in a single tiny package.
Nature Nanotechnology | 27-Jul-2009
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| SCI | Canada Gains New Research and Product Development Centre for Nanotechnology
Canada’s National Institute for Nanotechnology will soon be home to a new electron microscopy research and product development centre. The Hitachi Electron Microscopy Products Development Centre (HEMiC) at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) in Edmonton Alberta is a $14 million project supported the Canadian and Alberta governments, the University of Alberta and Hitachi High Technologies Inc. (Embargo expired on 17-Jul-2009 at 13:00 ET.) | 17-Jul-2009
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