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Cobalt Nanoparticles Boost Imaging Sensitivity and Edge Detection
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can serve as a very sensitive technique for detecting small tumors in the body, but it is not as good at identifying the edges of a tumor. Photoacoustic imaging tomography ...
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Gold Nanoparticles Shine Brightly in Tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 16, 2008 |
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Solid gold nanoparticles have long been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and more recently have shown promise in treating various types of cancer. Now, thanks to work by Shuming Nie, Ph.D., and his colleagues at the Emory-Georgia ...
All-in-one nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses - imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University ...
Self-destructing messages: Light-reactive coatings make metal nanoparticles into inks for self-erasing paper
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Those who like to watch spy movies like “Mission Impossible” are familiar with the self-destructing messages that inform the secret agents of the details of their mission and then dissolve in a puff of smoke. ...
Bacterium helps formation of gold
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Australian scientists have found that the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans catalyses the biomineralisation of gold by transforming toxic gold compounds to their metallic form using active cellular mechan ...
Hidden fingerprints revealed
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 15, 2007 |
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Hidden fingerprints can be now be revealed quickly and reliably thanks to two developments in nanotechnology. The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Communications.
Scientists replace chrome coatings with safer metal alloys
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since the 1940s, chrome has been used to add a protective coating and shiny luster to a wide range of metal products, from bathroom fixtures to car bumpers.
Targeting tumors using tiny gold particles
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been known that heat is an effective weapon against tumor cells. However, it's difficult to heat patients' tumors without damaging nearby tissues.
Precious metal gets picky
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 10, 2006 |
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Not only jewelry-loving ladies but also scientists and technologists are fascinated by gold–particularly in the form of the smallest clumps imaginable.
'There's Gold In Them That Exhausts!'
Aug 30, 2007 |
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A University of Leicester research team is working on a new technique for growing nanoparticles which could have extraordinary implications in electronics, medicine, the measurement of atmospheric air and the cleansing of ...
All That Glitters Is Now Gold
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In full sunlight at mid-day, gold objects are brilliant and richly colored. Put those same objects in a dark interior room with only fluorescent lamps, however, and they will look pale and ...
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