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Dec 16, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a nanolithographic technique that can produce high-resolution patterns of at least three different chemicals on a single chip at writing speeds of ...

Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)

Dec 04, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (20) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...

Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Search for Stability for Platinum Catalysts

Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new carbon support that greatly increases the durability of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells has been developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton University. ...

Nanoprobes hit targets in tumors, could lessen chemo side effects

Dec 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny nanoprobes have shown to be effective in delivering cancer drugs more directly to tumor cells - mitigating the damage to nearby healthy cells - and Purdue University research has shown that the nanoprobes ...

Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Dec 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have created a single nanoparticle that can be tracked in real time with MRI as it homes in on cancer cells, tags them with a fluorescent ...

New technology could boost disease detection tests' speed and sensitivity (w/ Video)

Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids. The findings, which will be published the week of December ...

Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Researchers Discover New Method for Measuring Hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale

Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new, more precise method for measuring how much — or how little - nanoscale interfaces love water.

Gene Testing In the Doctors Office

Dec 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A portable instrument manufactured by Nanosphere Inc. and recently approved by the FDA, can detect genetic variations in blood that alter the effectiveness of some drugs.

First metallic nanoparticles resistant to extreme heat

Nov 30, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

A University of Pittsburgh team overcame a major hurdle plaguing the development of nanomaterials such as those that could lead to more efficient catalysts used to produce hydrogen and render car exhaust less toxic. The researchers ...

Fast, easy, and highly sensitive arsenic detection with gold nanoparticles