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July 2009

• First Online Nano Workshop Scheduled as ICPC Nanonet Extends Network
  
  

June 2009

• Implant Coating Could Create New Six Million Dollar Man
  
  
• How Botulism Paralyzes Nerve Cells: New Details Revealed
  
  
• UCF Researcher's Nanoparticles Could Someday Lead to End of Chemotherapy
  
  
• Tubules "Grown" from Droplet
  
  
• Discovery of the Cell's Water Gate may Lead to New Cancer Drugs
  
  
• NIST Researchers ‘All Aglow’ Over New Test of Toxin Strength
  
  
• Nanoparticle Films No Longer a Delicate Matter
  
  
• Light Sensor Breakthrough Could Enhance Digital Cameras
  
  
• New Fabricated Material Changes Color Instantly in Response to External Magnetic Field
  
  
• Denture Wearers Get their Teeth into Nanoparticle Coating
  
  
• New Weather-proof Materials for Garden Furniture
  
  
• Active Thermitic Material Confirmed in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
  
  
• Friends of the Earth Report Highlights Some Risks from Nano-silver Particles
  
  
• Armed to the Teeth with NanoSeal Root Canal Treatment
  
  
• New 'Electronic Glue' Promises Less Expensive Semiconductors
  
  
• Manipulating Light on a Chip for Quantum Technologies
  
  
• Researchers Test Nanoparticle to Treat Cardiovascular Disease in Mice

May 2009

• Hellooo down there! Rice labs hope tiny clusters will find new oil in old wells
  
  
• So Long Aspirin, Hello Silver
  
  
• Nanotube Cancer Killers Tracked in Live Tissue
  
  
• New 'Broadband' Cloaking Technology Simple to Manufacture
  
  
• 'Nano-raspberries' for Steamy Windows
  
  
• New Memory Material May Hold Data for One Billion Years
  
  
• Air-fuelled Battery Could Last Up to 10 Times Longer
  
  
• Cheap Plastic Used in CDs Could Improve Electronics
  
  
• I Say a Little Prayer for You - Pope to Receive Nano-Bible on Visit to Israel
  
  
• The Mysterious Monopole - Predicted by Theory, Hunted for Decades - Found at Last!
  
  
• Scientists Measure Differences Between Normal and Cancer Cell Surfaces
  
  
• Underwater Robot with a Sense of Touch
  
  
• Nanoneedle is Small in Size, but Huge in Applications
  
  
• Research Gives Clues for Self-cleaning Materials, Water-striding Robots
  
  
• Light-Harvesting Bacteria Could Convert Solar Energy to Electrical Energy
  
  
• A Material for all Seasons
  
  
• Recycling Carbon Dioxide
  
  
• Combining Two Drugs in One Nanoparticle Overcomes Multidrug Resistance
  
  
• Flu-Cide Drug Designed to Destroy Influenza Viruses Including Swine and Bird Flu
  
  
• Carbon Nanotube Device can Detect Colours of the Rainbow

April 2009

• Does Whatever a Spider Can! - Spider Man's Secret Strength Revealed
  
  
• Nanowires Help Make Low-cost Disposable Bloodtest Kits
  
  
• Ultrathin and Made of Diamond
  
  
• Nanoparticles: The Missing Link in Cancer Gene Therapy
  
  
• Powering Nano-sized Machines Moves Closer to Reality
  
  
• Sensor Detects Onset of Acute Myocardial Ischemia
  
  
• Injections Now Seem Pointless
  
  
• Breakthrough Research Speeds up Recovery of Injured Athletes
  
  
• Scorpion Venom with Nanoparticles Slows Spread of Brain Cancer
  
  
• Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials
  
  
• New Therapy Promises Relief for Overheating Laptops
  
  
• Mobile Nanotechnology Battles HIV
  
  
• Antibacterial Coatings Safe for Implants
  
  
• New Storage System Design Brings Hydrogen Cars Closer to Reality
  
  
• Prince of Wales Meets "Grey Goo" in £3,000 Cycling Suit
  
  
• Tiny New Sensor Structures Detect Poisons and Explosives
  
  
• Bone-repairing Stem Cell Jab Hope
  
  
• Scientists Discover Pentagonal Ice
  
  
• 'Nano-camo' for Fashionistas and Environmentalists
  
  
• Nanofarming Technology Extracts Biofuel Oil without Harming Algae
  
  
• Bird Feathers Produce Colour Through Structure Similar to Beer Foam
  
  
• Beating the Back-up Blues
  
  
• Nanotechnology Could Unlock Safer Cancer Treatments
  
  
• New Virus-built Battery Could Power Cars, Electronic Devices
  
  
• Smashing Pictures
  
  
• New Age of Exploration Touches the Limit of the Nano World
  
  
• Magnetic Nano-‘Shepherds’ Organize Cells

March 2009

• New Method Applies Pesticides in Nanofibres to Keep Chemicals on Target
  
  
• A Fast Magnetic Fix for Sepsis?
  
  
• New Wonder Pants Burn Body Fat by Magic!
  
  
• 'Buckyballs' to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
  
  
• Light-as-Air, Heatproof Nanotube Muscles
  
  
• DIY Solar Cells Made from Doughnuts and Tea
  
  
• Bath Researchers to Develop Coatings that Kill Superbugs
  
  
• Nanofood - MEPs to Debate Tougher Scrutiny
  
  
• Breathe in, Breathe out - Microscopes Reveal How Bacteria Clean up Toxic Metals
  
  
• Researchers Develop Wireless Method of Brain Stimulation
  
  
• Nano-Based Engine Oil Lubricant Reduces Fuel Consumption by More Than 5%
  
  
• First 'Nano' Gene Therapy Treatments to Target Cancer Cells
  
  
• Self-repairing Nano Coating is up to Scratch
  
  
• Cells Self-Assemble into Tissues
  
  
• How to Destroy the World with Nanotechnology
  
  
• Nanotech Coating Could Lead to Better Brain Implants to Treat Diseases
  
  
• Twin Nanoparticle Shown Effective at Targeting, Killing Breast Cancer Cells
  
  
• A Novel Approach to Nanotechnology
  
  
• Aircraft Skins 10 Times Stronger with Nanostitching
  
  
• Orange Goo Goes Ballistic
  
  
• Understanding How Nanotubes Heat Up Could Make Them Useful For Electronics
  
  
• Future TV Screens Seen in Coffee Stains
  
  
• A Robot So Tiny it Can Alter DNA Code
  
  
• Technique Aids Study of Living Cell Surfaces
  
  
• Researchers Discover a Potential On-Off Switch for Nanoelectronics
  
  
• A Nose for New Treatments

February 2009

• Knowing When to Fold: Engineers use 'nano-origami' to build tiny electronic devices
  
  
• It's Time to Meet the Puppets on the Nano Show Tonight
  
  
• Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie - Its the Self-drying Nano Bikini!
  
  
• Sophisticated Structures Assembled with Magnets
  
  
• Researchers Develop Nano-based Protection against Agents of Terror
  
  
• Cheaper Materials Could be Key to Low-cost Solar Cells
  
  
• Nano-hydrogels Capable of Detecting Cancer Cells
  
  
• NZ Scientists Create Magnetic Super Paper
  
  
• Tiny "Lab-on-a-Chip" Can Detect Pollutants, Disease and Biological Weapons
  
  
• Researchers Develop High-Performance Organic-Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell
  
  
• Tagged Proteins Can Just Keep Swimming
  
  
• Doughnuts Get a Health Makeover with Nanotechnology
  
  
• Horse Power? No, Hamster Power!
  
  
• University Scientists Develop New Way to Treat People with Cystic Fibrosis
  
  
• How Do You Build a Synthetic Brain?
  
  
• Going Underground: The London Nanotube
  
  
• Nano-TV for European News Media
  
  
• Cancer Diagnosis: Now in 3-D
  
  
• Graphene for the Green Grid
  
  
• Nanotechnology Used to Probe Effectiveness of Antibiotics
  
  
• Cracking a Controversial Solid State Mystery
  
  
• Research Reveals How Influenza Virus Hijacks Human Cells
  
  
• Ottilia Saxl Announces Retirement, Dr Mark Morrison Appointed CEO
  
  
• Test Tube Chemistry inside a Nanotube
  
  
• Engineered Nanoparticles: Review of Health and Environmental Safety (ENRHES)
  
  
• ICPC-Nanonet: International Collaboration Launched
  

January 2009

• Viscosity-Enhancing Nanomaterials May Double Service Life of Concrete
  
  
• Reading the Small Print Takes on a New Meaning
  
  
• Scientists Get on our Nerves; Create Working Artificial Networks
  
  
• A Novel Approach to Create High-Density Magnetic Data Storage
  
  
• Scientists Discover Ground-Breaking Material
  
  
• Fracture Putty Could Save you an Arm and a Leg
  
  
• New Catalyst Paves the Path for Ethanol-Powered Fuel Cells
  
  
• UT Southwestern Researchers Discover Brain's Memory 'Buffer' in Single Cells
  
  
• Plasmonic Whispering Gallery Microcavity Paves the Way to Future Nanolasers
  
  
• Nano-tetherball Biosensor Precisely Detects Glucose
  
  
• Polymer Nanoparticle for Oral Anticancer Drug Delivery
  
  
• Light-Speed Nanotech: Controlling the Nature of Graphene
  
  
• New Stretchable Electronics Design Accommodates Extreme Bending and Straining
  
  
• Nanosensors Made Easy
  
  
• Semiconducting Nanotubes Are 'Holy Grail' for Electronic Applications
  
  
• Long-Distance Teleportation Between Two Atoms in Unconnected Closures Achieved
  
  
• Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen
  
  
• The Smallest Possible Switches
  
  
• Molecular Forklifts Overcome Obstacle to ‘Smart Dust’
  
  
• A Fantastic Voyage Brought to Life
  
  
• Spinning Silk into Sensors
  
  
• 3-D Liquid Crystal Devices of the Future
  
  
• Inexpensive Process Gets Nanotubes to Obediently Line Themselves Up
  
  
• Special Nanotubes May Be Used as a Vehicle for Treating Neurodegenerative Disorders
  
  
• Chalk Formation is Crystal Clear
  
  
• Good as Gold! Novel Technique Changes Lymph Node Biopsy, Reduces Radiation Exposure in Breast Cancer Patients
  
  
• Getting Your Daily Dose of Nano?
  
  
• Can You See Me Now? Flexible Photodetectors Could Help Sharpen Photos
  
  
• Nano Delivery System Robust and Flexible Enough to Deliver Variety of Drugs
  
  
• Nanotube Superbatteries: Dense Films of Carbon Nanotubes Store Large Amounts of Energy
  
  
• Wireless Microgrippers Grab Living Cells in 'Biopsy' Tests
  
  
• Microscope with 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI
  
  
• Soldering On: 'Nanowelding' Technique Offers Breakthrough for Nanostructures
  
  
• Synthetic HDL: A New Weapon to Fight Cholesterol Problems
  
  
• Infrared Light Visualizes Nanoscale Cracks and Strains
  
  
• Quantum Force Gets Repulsive
  
  
• Vietnamese Scientists Make Natural Plastic
  
  
• New Hydrogen Production Method Could Reduce Need for Fossil Fuels
  
  
• A Better Way To Make Nanotubes
  
  
• Nano Ink Provides Electronics Hot off the Press
  
  
• Nanobot Lets DNA Legs Do the Walking
  
  
• Blood Scanner Detects Even Faint Indicators of Cancer
  
  
• Six Sites Found Holding 12,900-year-old Nanodiamond-rich Soil
  
  
• Gold Nanoparticles Deliver More than just Glitter
  
  
• Nano "Tractor Beam" Traps DNA
  
  
• Biomedical Researchers Create Artificial Human Bone Marrow in a Test Tube
  
  
• Carbon Nanotubes the Ideal "Smart" Brain Material
  
  
• Nanocentre Researchers Peer into the Atomic Future
  

December 2008

• Revolutionising Diagnostics with a Little Help from Nature
  
  
• Tiny Delivery System With A Big Impact On Cancer Cells
  
  
• Nontoxic Clean-up Method for Common, Potentially Toxic Nano Materials
  
  
• Researchers Print Dense Lattice of Transparent Nanotube Transistors on Flexible Base
  
  
• Tiny Magnetic Crystals in Bacteria are a Compass
  
  
• Lethal 'Lint Brush' Captures and Kills Cancer Cells in the Bloodstream
  
  
• Science of Santa: Special Deliveries in the St Nick of Time
  
  
• New Hybrid Nanostructures Detect Nanoscale Magnetism
  
  
• Rusnanotech: Russia Shows Europe How to Showcase Nanotechnology Achievements
  
  
• New Record Set for Quantum Memory Storage and Retrieval
  
  
• Smarty Pants! Nanotube Clothing Glows in Response to Allergens
  
  
• Researchers Use Optical Lattice as a Construction Kit
  
  
• 'Stress Tests' Probe Nanoscale Strains in Materials
  
  
• Wet Winter Weather may be Healthier than a Wonderland
  
  
• Good Vibrations: Measuring Sound with a Nanoscopic Air Bubble
  
  
• Could Nanotech Create Speech-powered Phones?
  
  
• Magnetic Nanotags Allow Sensitive Detection of Cancer Biomarkers
  
  
• New Holographic Method for Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies
  
  
• Working with Miraculous Microbes
  
  
• Scientists Induce 'Handedness' in Pre-biological Molecules
  
  
• Tablet-sized Robots are Smooth Operators

November 2008

• Polymer Solar Cells Created with Higher Efficiency Levels
  
  
• Fast Molecular Arrangements Hold Key to Plastic's Toughness
  
  
• Nanotube Switching Effect Discovered
  
  
• 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' - Photon Force Drives Nanomachines
  
  
• What's the Smallest One of All? - High-precision Mirror Focuses Radiation, Spots Nano Sizes
  
  
• Mother of Pearl Reveals Mysterious Secret
  
  
• Atomic Dance Moves Shake up MRIs
  
  
• Nanomanufactured Polymer Film Could Lead to Lower-cost Solar Cells
  
  
• Baby Steps: Tiny Cell Proteins Generate a Force to Walk
  
  
• Data Storage Spins into the Future
  
  
• Artificial Implants for Joint Replacement No Longer Hip
  
  
• Boron the Builder Has a Future in Football
  
  
• Animation Brings Nano to Life, Demystifies Complex Science
  
  
• Polymers "battered" with Nanoparticles Could Create Self-healing Paints and Clever Packaging
  
  
• Launch of Revolutionary Handheld Drug Detection Device
  
  
• Swimming is a Drag for Bacteria, Brown Physicists Explain
  
  
• IBM Seeks to Build the Computer of the Future Based on Insights from the Brain
  
  
• Researchers Reshape the Future of Drug Discovery
  
  
• Scientists Make Underwater Glue with Mussel Power
  
  
• Don't Call me Scarface! New Nanofibres May Lead to Scar-Free Healing
  
  
• Making Materials Untouchable - New Designs for Materials that Repel all Liquids
  
  
• Researchers Show that Plants May Accumulate Nanoparticles in Tissues
  
  
• Nanoparticles and Cell Death
  
  
• Nanowires are a Step Closer to Electronics Manufacturing
  
  
• What you got Cookin? 150 Nanoparticle Experiments Conducted in Kitchens
  
  
• Student Manufactures Collagen Nanofibres for Synthetic Knee Cartilage
  
  
• Miniaturizing Memory: Data Storage Reaches Molecular Level
  
  
• The Institute of Nanotechnology Responds to ‘Small Wonder: Nanotechnology and Cosmetics’
  
  
• The Case of Nanotechnology: Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Issues Report
  
  
• NanopartzTM Release Gold Nanowires
  
  
• Nanomaterial Breakthrough for Implantable Medical Devices
  
  
• New Method Captures Catalysis One Molecule at a Time
  
  
• Nanoscientists Aid Antibacterial Drug
  
  
• Engineered Assassin Cells Unmask Deadly HIV
  
  
• Cheap, Self-Assembling Optics
  
  
• Just Scratching the Surface: New Technique Maps Nanomaterials as They Grow
  
  
• Detecting Tiny Twists with a Nanomachine
  
  
• AIST Develops Safe, Environment-friendly Cyan-free Gold Plating
  
  
• 'Small Wonder? Nanotechnology and Cosmetics', published by Which? on 5th November 2008: A Response by the Institute of Nanotechnology
  
  
• Nanobama - The Making of a President
  
  
• Tiny DNA Tweezers Catch and Release Objects on Demand
  
  
• Field Hospital on a Chip
  
  
• Down the Tube: How Defects Make Nano-Objects Better
  
  
• Molecular Double Whammy against Malignant Melanoma
  
  
• CNTs Will Rock You : Hot Nanotube Sheet Sounds Like a Plan for Flat Speakers
  

October 2008

• Novel Signalling Molecule Could Unlock Hundreds of New Antibiotics
  
  
• New Mass Sensor Measures with Atomic Precision
  
  
• Device Delivers Virus Count in Minutes
  
  
• Nanoparticles Target Multiple Cancer Genes
  
  
• Sea Urchins Hold Secret Key to Biomineralisation
  
  
• Scaled-down Soldering Stabilizes Circuits
  
  
• Non-invasive Disease Diagnosis with "Wellness Cards"
  
  
• Denser Computer Chips Possible with Plasmonic Lenses that 'Fly'
  
  
• Singapore Scientist to Develop Human Virus Catcher
  
  
• To Insulate or Not to Insulate?
  
  
• Self-Assembling "Organic Wires" to Mimic Human Tissue
  
  
• China Fabricates First ZnO Nanorod Field-effect Transistor
  
  
• Ion Jelly Could Satisfy Appetite for Greener Batteries
  
  
• Paper Aeroplanes are 500 Times Stronger than Steel
  
  
• Anti-Cancer Brew Reaches Parts Other Beers Cannot Reach
  
  
• Vertical Graphene Sheets Sensing Biomolecules
  
  
• New Research Field Promises Radical Advances in Optical Technologies
  
  
• Nanoscale Smart Coatings Protect Products and Fortify Materials
  
  
• Crossing the Border: study shows how proteins permit entry to a cell
  
  
• Diatom Genome Helps Explain Their Great Diversity and Success in Trapping Excess Carbon in Oceans
  
  
• Removal of 'Super-polluters' Could Cut Pollution from Nanoparticles by 25%
  
  
• What's in your Trolley?
  
  
• Extreme Nature No Match for Tough Nano Building Blocks
  
  
• Living Cells Used as Nano Factories
  
  
• Physicists Pull off the Gecko's Feat
  
  
• Nanotechnology Improves Food Safety by Detecting Prions
  
  
• Superbug-Busting Antibiotic Reveals its Secrets
  
  
• Tiny Lens Brings Colour to the Nanoworld
  
  
• Nanofridge for Microchips in Smaller and Faster Computers
  
  
• Crystals Could Lead to More Energy Efficient Materials
  
  
• Imec Paves the Way Towards Skin-Like Foils
  
  
• Nanoscopic Screening Process to Speed Drug Discovery
  
  
• How Nanotechnology Can Help Wean World off Fossil Fuels
  
  
• Scientist Sees Enzyme that Converts Light into Brain Signals
  
  
• Disappearing Dresses, Dissolving Bottles
  
  
• Researchers Observe Bacterial Crisis Command Centre
  
  
• Japanese Government Locates New Nanotechnology Research Satellite at University of Cambridge
  
  
• Nanotechnology Deployed in Textiles to Fight Global MRSA Bug
  
  
• First Atomic-Scale Compositional Images of Fuel-Cell Nanoparticles
  
  
• Swimming Bacteria Sort Themselves Out
  
  
• Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment
  
  
• It's Electrifying! Eels Shape Up Cells For Medical Implants
  
  
• Scientists Develop Magnetic Nanoparticle Contrast Agents for Blood Cells
  
  
• Skin Deep Particles Could Seep Further
  
  
• Nanoparticles Deliver Treatment for Brain, Spinal Cord Injuries
  
  
• Disease Diagnosis in Just 15 Minutes
  
  
• Amazon Rain Forest Reveals Nano Secrets
  
  
• Like Water off ... a Waterstrider's Legs
  

September 2008

• Hybrid Nanoparticles Image and Treat Tumours
  
  
• Top Gear to a Quantum World with Spoke Wheels
  
  
• Honeycomb Nanotube Material Offers Better Noise Reduction
  
  
• Women in Heart Graft Empowered by Nano Lifeline
  
  
• Novel Nanocomposite Gel Could Revolutionise Cell Culture
  
  
• Fungi with 'Bling' Make for Powerful Catalysts and Disinfectants
  
  
• Smoothest Surface Ever Could Lead to First Atomic Microscope
  
  
• Cloaked Nanoparticles May Mean Rethink for Drug Targeting
  
  
• Colloids Twist Like DNA
  
  
• Coating Improves Electrical Stimulation Therapy for Parkinson's, Depression, Chronic Pain
  
  
• Important Twist in Supercapacitor Research
  
  
• Buckyballs Have High Potential to Accumulate in Living Tissue, Breakdown in Sunlight
  
  
• Stronger, Lighter and Safer Cars from a Load of Abalone
  
  
• Nature Provides Nano Coating Template on the Fly
  
  
• Graphene Offers Storage of Large Quantities of Renewable Electrical Energy
  
  
• SiC Quantum Dots Image Live Cells
  
  
• Nano Flower Power Boosts Energy Storage
  
  
• Calculation of Graphene's Ideal Strength Confirmed by Tests
  
  
• Water Runs Through It: Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes
  
  
• Nanoparticles Go Bob Bob Bobbin', Create Controllable Surface Patterns
  
  
• Biomimicking of Skin and Muscle Moves Ahead with Nanotech
  
  
• Statins and Nanoparticles Team Up to Tackle Atherosclerosis
  
  
• Quantum Insights Could Enable Research, Military and Medical Uses
  
  
• Nano Cargo Ships Launched to Destroy Tumours
  
  
• Cell Slicing Method Cuts Solar Power Waste
  
  
• 'Finding Nano', Molecules 'Max' Out at the Movies
  
  
• Nanoscale Silver: Old Problem, New Challenge
  
  
• Engineers Create New Gecko-like Adhesive that Shakes off Dirt
  
  
• New Theory Could Solve Ancient Mystery of Glass
  
  
• EU Invests in Large Scale Development of Sustainable Wood-based Composite
  
  
• New Nano Device Detects Cell-to-Cell Signalling in Immune System
  
  
• White Paint and UV Light Kill Deadly Superbugs
  
  
• A New 'Pyrex' Nanoparticle
  
  
• Toward Textile-based Solar Cells
  
  
• Tiny Gold Clusters Identified as Top-Notch Catalysts
  
  
• Antibiotics Improved by Marine Diatom Proteins
  
  
• Lancaster University Seeks Alzheimer's Breakthrough
  
  
• Nano Distillation Detects Disease, Purifies Water
  
  
• Nanoparticles Hunt Down Cancer Cells
  
  
• Helium Ions Replace Electrons in Novel Microscope Technology
  
  
• Researchers to Examine Health Impact of Inhaled NanoMetals
  
  
• Tobacco - The Killer's Key to a Revolutionary Cure
  
  
• How to Tell your Pinot from your Plonk
  
  
• 'Lab On A Chip' Improves IVF Success
  
  
• Scientists Grow 'Nanonets' to Capture and Transfer Electrical Charge
  
  
• Switchable Bio-adhesion
  
  
• Researchers Zoom in on Malaria-infected Cells
  
  
• Cancer Research Breakthrough May Be 'Magic Bullet'
  
  
• Explosives Go 'Green'
  
  
• DNA Tubes Created with Programmable Circumferences for Nanoscale Manufacturing
  
  
• Graphene Pioneers Scoop Major Award
  
  
• Shine a Light! Scientists Take Sharpest Image Ever

August 2008

• Iran Makes Nanoclay Toxicity Breakthrough
  
  
• EU to Invest Millions in Nanotech for Sustainable Packaging
  
  
• Surgery Gets a Grip with a Helping Hand
  
  
• Nanotomography is Crystal Clear
  
  
• Life under the Laser
  
  
• Nanostructures Get a Taste of Honey
  
  
• DNA Bar-coding 'Ringing Up' Wrong Data
  
  
• Researchers Add Silicon to Iron, Create Highly Unconventional Metal
  
  
• Church Windows Help See the Light, Cleanse the Air
  
  
• Scientists 'Sniff Out' Early Cancer
  
  
• Nano 'Trojan Horse' Aids Anti-Oxidant Stealth Mission
  
  
• Landslide Victory for Wireless Nanosensors
  
  
• Light Finds its Way Through Opaque Layers
  
  
• Waste Material Transformed into Ethanol
  
  
• Queen's Chemist Designs New 'Catch-and-Tell' Molecules
  
  
• Researchers Develop Synthetic Collagen for Cell Growth and More
  
  
• IoN and Cranfield University Sign MoU
  
  
• Feel the Vibe and Move your Body
  
  
• Hydrogel Provides Nano Frame for Bone Cell Growth
  
  
• Slipping through Cell Walls: Nanotubes Pack a Punch, Destroy Cancer in Mice
  
  
• Nanotech Solution Brings Clean Drinking Water to a Thirsty World
  
  
• Chemists Take Gold in Mass-Producing Olympic Logo
  
  
• Nano Star of the Olympic 400m
  
  
• Scientists See Nano in the Making
  
  
• All Blacks Get Stitched Up
  
  
• Designer RNA Stops Rise of High Cholesterol
  
  
• Fruit Fly Provides Biotemplate for Compound Lens
  
  
• Coated Film is Lethal Weapon against Bacteria
  
  
• Japanese Researchers Slip Some Stretchable 'E-skin'
  
  
• Autos to Generate Electricity from Exhaust Heat
  
  
• Invisibility within Sight as New Materials Bend Light Backwards
  
  
• Nanowires from DNA
  
  
• Plastics Chill Out in Electric Fields
  
  
• Catching Rays - Collecting Energy from the Sun Using Antennae
  
  
• The Eye-Camera Takes Shape
  
  
• Aerial Nano-Sensors to Measure Emissions during China's Industrial 'Shutdown'
  
  
• Nanomedicine Therapies: The Shape of Things to Come
  
  
• Contact Lenses Feel the Pressure
  
  
• Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg
  
  
• Scientists Hot on the Trail of Climate Change Prediction
  
  
• Worming Towards the Development of a Living Sensor
  
  
• Body Armour Built to Scale - Dinosaur Eel Scale!
  
  
• The Most Advanced X-Ray Holograms Yet
  
  
• Scientists Pour Oil on Troubled Waters
  
  
• New Nano Tagging System to Help Solve Gun Crime
  
  
• NanoCharM Consortium Invites Characterisation and Materials Community Participation
  

July 2008

• Health Protection Agency Sets Up New National Nanotoxicology Research Centre
  
  
• US Seeks to Attract New Nanotech Energy Applications
  
  
• EC's JRC Head States Risk Concerns 'Must Be Addressed'
  
  
• NIST Membrane Model May Hold Key to Unlock Early-Stage Alzheimer's Secrets
  
  
• Nanoparticle Research Points to Cool Energy Savings
  
  
• Melamed Announces Russia's Plans for Blood Plasma Cleaning
  
  
• High-res X-ray Microscope Offers New Insight
  
  
• Revolutionary Mouthwash Ensures Happy and Healthy Smiles
  
  
• 'Nanosculpture' Technique Creates New Potential for Heat Pumps, Energy Converters and Medical Applications
  
  
• Molecular Hula Hoop Rotates in <300 Milliseconds
  
  
• New Zealand Awards Fellowships for Discovery
  
  
• Institute of Engineering In Medicine Launched by UC San Diego to Accelerate 21st Century Health Care
  
  
• Nanotechnology Inspires Digital Artists
  
  
• Purdue Offer Online Simulation Tools for Atomic Force Microscopy
  
  
• Invisible Nanotube Cable May Support a Human
  
  
• Consumers Accept Nanotechnology In Food And Packaging
  
  
• Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Enzyme Activity
  
  
• Palm Sized Biosensor Detects Threats Without External Power Source
  
  
• Hong Kong Scientists Make Zeolite Membrane Micro Fuel Cell
  
  
• Bangalore Pitched as Nanotechnology Hub
  
  
• Education Raises Consumer Concern
  
  
• IBM to invest $1.5 bln in nanotechnology
  
  
• Raman Spectoscopy Reveals DNA in Action
  
  
• Researchers Generate Hydrogen with Zero Carbon Footprint
  
  
• Drug-Coated Nanoparticles to Target Paediatric Brain Tumours
  
  
• Research on the Carcinogenicity of Nanoparticles and other Dusts
  
  
• Controlled Fullerite Growth to Enhance Devices
  
  
• Nanotubes Go into Mass Production
  
  
• Nano-sized Electronic Circuit Sheds Light on the Early Universe
  
  
• Stem Cells Act as Anti-Cancer Drug Couriers
  
  
• Solar Energy - A Pane in the Glass
  
  
• Report: Drug Delivery Using Nanotechnologies
  - Technologies, Markets and Competitive Environment



• Webcast: The Age of Nanotechnology
  - IET / IoN Joint Guest Lecture with Professor Jim Gimzewski, UCLA



• New Line of Lasers for Biomedicine



• Japanese Chemists Create DNA Molecule from Artificial Parts



• Coated Fullerenes Have Potential To Be New Hydrogen-Storage Material



• Electronic Nose Developed for Quick Detection of Explosives



• Natural Bio-Army Trained to Fight Cancer



• Zinc Nanoparticles Help Catch the Crooks



• New High Performance, Low Power Sensor at Nanoscale



• Quantum Dots Can Penetrate Skin Through Minor Abrasions



• Visualizing Atomic-scale Acoustic Waves in Nanostructures



• Caged-in Hydrogen Atom Could Help Storage Efficiency



• More than Meets the Eye - The LED Contact Lens



• Gold and DNA Combined Could Make Nanosensor



• Super Atom Clusters Give 3rd Dimension to Periodic Table



• Water Is Not What We Thought It Was



• Caterpillars Inspire Development of Morphing Chemical Robots



• A Quantum Leap Over the Qubit Hurdle



• Nanoweapon Deployed in the Fight against Cancer

June 2008

• Quantum Computing Breakthrough Arises from Unknown Molecule



• New Efficiency Benchmark for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells



• Accidental Fungus Leads to Promising Cancer Drug



• Novel Nanomaterial Traps Hazardous Mercury Vapours



• Proteins Put On a Moving Performance



• On the Boil: New Nano Technique Significantly Boosts Boiling Efficiency



• Nanotubes Could Aid Understanding of Retrovirus Transmission Between Human Cells



• Volcano 'Pollution' Solves Mercury Mystery



• New Process Creates 3-D Nanostructures with Magnetic Materials



• Metals Form Porous Nanostructures for Better Fuel Cells and Microchips



• Automakers 'Convert' with Nanotechnology as PGM Prices Soar



• Tethered Molecules Act as Light-driven Reversible Nanoswitches



• Using Nanotechnology to Inject Gene-Silencing Tools into Cells



• Wireless Health Monitor Gets Wellcome Backing



• Accidental Discovery Could Enable Development of Faster Computers



• Nano 'Scalpel' Targets Individual Cells



• There's Nano Gold in Them Thar Hills!



• Microscopic "Clutch" Puts Flagellum in Neutral



• Cadaveric Bone Implants: Cheap Alternatives in Bone Regeneration Therapy



• Soy-Based Hydrogel Ready for Biomedical Exploration



• Immune Responses Jolted into Action by Nanohorns



• A Breakthrough in the Glass Barrier



• Genetically Engineered Cells Make their own Nanomagnets



• Disease Detection - Best Bar None



• Computers Chill Out with a Nano Fridge



• Reinventing Water with Nanotechnology



• Nano Grand Design Wraps up Climate Change



• Nanotechnology Research is 10 Millionth Record on Inspec Database



• Honda Unveils First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car



• Quantum Rods Probe Blood-Brain Barrier



• Researchers Develop Ultra Low-cost Plastic Memory



• Nanoparticles Trigger Built-In Cell-Death Signal to Overcome Drug Resistance



• Windbag Researchers Develop Novel Renewable Energy Storage



• Effective Hydrogen Storage Moves a Step Closer



• Tumour Nanoparticles Trigger Pancreatic Cancer Cell Death



• Nanoparticles Aid Bone Density



• Investigators Inhibit Corneal Inflammation Using Nanoparticles

 

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