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Nanoprobes hit targets in tumors, could lessen chemo side effects

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 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 ...


Seeing the small picture: X-ray nanoprobe pushes observation to ever smaller frontiers

Seeing the small picture: X-ray nanoprobe pushes observation to ever smaller frontiers

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Try to picture putting some atoms under a microscope. Even if you could pick them up, put them on a slide and get them to stay still, you still could not see them with even the most powerful ...





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Argonne's Hard X-ray Nanoprobe provides new capability to study nanoscale materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

[B]Novel microscopy tool provides highest resolution for hard x-rays[/B] The Center for Nanoscale Materials' (CNM) newly operational Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is ...


New Nanoparticle to Help Researchers Study Angiogenesis

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adah Almutairi, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, is first author of a paper recently published in the Proceedings of ...


World’s Most Precise 'Hard X-Ray' Nanoprobe Activated

World’s Most Precise 'Hard X-Ray' Nanoprobe Activated

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created May 19, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Marking a major step forward in using X-rays to study some of the smallest phenomena in nature, the world’s first “hard X-ray” nanoprobe beamline was activated on March 15, 2005. The unique nanoprobe is one ...


ORNL nanoprobe creates world of new possibilities

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created Jul 15, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A technology with proven environmental, forensics and medical applications has received a shot in the arm because of an invention by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ORNL's nanoprobe, which ...


Scientists spot sneaky 'neurodegenerative' iron at the European synchrotron

Scientists spot sneaky 'neurodegenerative' iron at the European synchrotron

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 10, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists suspect that iron accumulation plays a role in neurodegenerative processes such as Parkinson’s disease, but its distribution in neurons has never been observed because of the lack of techniques ...


Astronomy technology brings nanoparticle probes into sharper focus

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

While pondering the challenges of distinguishing one nano-sized probe image from another in a mass of hundreds or thousands of nanoprobes, researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University made an interesting observation. ...


Astrotechnology Brings Nanoparticle Probes Into Sharper Focus

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

While pondering the challenges of distinguishing one nanosize probe image from another in a mass of hundreds or thousands of nanoprobes, two investigators at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology made an ...


NSLS-II Project Beamline Conceptual Designs

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The NSLS-II Experimental Facilities Division achieved an important milestone in September when the conceptual design reports for the initial six project beamlines were completed and submitted to NSLS-II management.


The nano-revolution continues at Argonne

The nano-revolution continues at Argonne

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created May 02, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Federal and state officials will visit Argonne National Laboratory May 6 to participate in a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM). The CNM, which is currently under con ...


Quantum Dots Probe Cell Death

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 05, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Aiming to help researchers get a better handle on how – and if – anticancer agents are triggering cell death, investigators at the University of Twente in The Netherlands have developed a quantum dot nanodevice that can detect ...



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