News tagged with nanosystems
Researchers design unique method to induce immunity to certain STDs
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common bacterial agent of sexually transmitted disease, accounting for more than a million reported infections in the United States each year.
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Chemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The scientists anticipate their "LithoParticles" will have significant applications in photonics, optical communications and other areas.
Researchers create 'fly paper' to capture circulating cancer cells
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.
Silicon brittle? Not this kind!
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Silicon, the most important semiconductor material of all, is usually considered to be as brittle and breakable as window glass. On the nanometer scale, however, the substance exhibits very ...
Study identifies two chemicals that could lead to new drugs for genetic disorders
Sep 28, 2009 |
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UCLA scientists have identified two chemicals that convince cells to ignore premature signals to stop producing important proteins. Published in the Sept. 28 edition of the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the findings could ...
Lab-on-a-Chip Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions At Once
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 27, 2009 |
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Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands ...
Antibody Replacements Just a 'Click' Away
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and The Scripps Research Institute (SRI) have developed an innovative technique to create cheap but highly stable chemicals that have the potential to take the ...
Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter, amplify electronic signals
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are developing a new class of tiny mechanical devices containing vibrating, hair-thin structures that could be used to filter electronic signals in cell phones and for other more ...
New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer ...
Low-cost solution processing method developed for CIGS-based solar cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest ...
Research explores interactions between nanomaterials, biological systems
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent explosion in the development of nanomaterials with enhanced performance characteristics for use in commercial and medical applications has increased the likelihood of people coming into direct ...
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