ETH Professor Receives 2010 Debiopharm Life Sciences Award Debiopharm Group(TM) (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group of companies with a focus on the development of innovative prescription drugs that target unmet medical needs,...
Ceramic foam for efficient thermal insulation The Institut for Nonmetallic Inorganic Materials develops ceramic foams intended for use as energy-efficient thermal insulations in blast furnaces, as bone substitutes and for...
Zinc oxide snowflakes Modelling zinc oxide nanoparticle formation could provide new insights into how snowflakes form as well as aiding nanoscale device research, say Chinese scientists.
Cheaper, better solar cell Is full of holes A new low-cost etching technique developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory can put a trillion holes in a silicon wafer...
Nano update: detect, image, treat A look at the latest advances in arterial plaque ablation, ultrasensitive imaging, wound dressings and tumour therapy
Standard methods of screening men for prostate cancer leave much to be desired, particularly in terms of their inability to have much effect on prostate...
Forget surgery. One team of Kansas State University researchers is exploring nanoparticle-induced hyperthermia in the battle against cancer. Nanowerk Nanotechnology News
A research team from Emory University has developed a method for mapping the molecular heterogeneity of human prostate tumor biopsies obtained from cancer patients using...
Abstract: Plethora of the formulation techniques were reported in literature for targeting the drug to specific site. Polymeric micelle can be targeted to tumor site...
So-called memristors could replace today’s transistors and lead to a new class of computing devices, Hewlett-Packard scientists say. NYT > Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology and synthetic biology continue to develop as two of the most exciting areas of scientific discovery, but research has shown that the public is...
The nanoscience-based approach could herald the arrival of a set of new technologies representing a synthesis of molecular...
Cheaper, better solar cell is full of holes A new low-cost etching technique developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory can put a trillion holes in a silicon wafer...
Quantum dots track who gets into cell nucleus (PhysOrg.com) -- UC Berkeley researchers Karsten Weis, Jan Liphardt, and colleagues have used fluorescent probes called quantum dots to determine which molecules get into the...
Sensor measures yoctonewton forces fast (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used a small crystal of ions (electrically charged atoms) to detect forces at...
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