Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Dec 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a new approach for treating and healing skin abscesses caused by bacteria resistant to most antibiotics. The study ...

Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Dec 21, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

At Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy it was revealed that single-stranded DNA can disperse bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes into individual tubes and serve as guideposts for synthesizing ...

Chemistry makes the natural 'wonder fabric' -- wool -- more wonderful

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Dec 22, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists in China are reporting an advance that may improve the natural wonders of wool — already regarded as the "wonder fabric" for its lightness, softness, warmth even when wet, and other qualities. They ...

Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Dec 21, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new way to use a synthetic form of DNA to control the assembly of nanoparticles — this time resulting ...

Molecular freight: Synthetic nanoscale transport system modeled on nature

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Dec 21, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just like our roads, there is a lot of traffic within the cells in our bodies, because cell components, messenger molecules, and enzymes must also be brought to the right places in the cell. One of these ...