News tagged with nanotechnology applications

'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Mar 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember Buckminster Fuller's distinctive "geodesic domes" - soccer-ball-shaped structures that the late futurist envisioned as ideal human domiciles. Tel Aviv University ...

Nanotechnology: Learning from past mistakes

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jul 21, 2008 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 1

A new expert analysis in Nature Nanotechnology questions whether industry, government and scientists are successfully applying lessons learned from past technologies to ensure the safe and responsible development of emergi ...

People in the US and the UK show strong similarities in their attitudes toward nanotechnologies

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Dec 09, 2008 | 3 / 5 (4) | 1

The results of a new U.S.–U.K. study published in this week's journal Nature Nanotechnology show that ordinary people in both countries hold very positive views of nanotechnologies and what the future of these technologies might ...

Survey highlights support for nanotech in health fields but disapproval elsewhere

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Nov 13, 2008 | 3 / 5 (3) | 0

A landmark national survey on the use of nanotechnology for "human enhancement" shows widespread public support for applications of the new technology related to improving human health. However, the survey also shows broad ...

Scientists and public differ on views about nanotechnology regulation

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 19, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to regulating nanotechnology - a burgeoning global industry with wide-ranging potential applications - a new study led by professors Dietram Scheufele at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

findNano app puts nanotech in your pocket

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Nov 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has developed findNano, an application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users discover and determine whether consumer products are nanotechnology-enabled. Nanotechnology, ...

Nanotechnology 'culture war' possible, study says

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Dec 07, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (13) | 12

Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural ...

New nanotech sensor developed with medical, chemistry applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers at Oregon State University and other institutions have developed a new "plasmonic nanorod metamaterial" using extraordinarily tiny rods of gold that will have important applications in medical, biological and ...

Ultra-Long Carbon Nanotubes Could Serve as Future Transmission Lines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 10, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (27) | 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to carbon nanotubes, the majority of research so far has focused on small-scale applications. But now, a team of researchers from Rice University has created carbon nanotubes ...

Nanotechnology and synthetic biology: What does the American public think?

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Sep 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

Nanotechnology and synthetic biology continue to develop as two of the most exciting areas of scientific discovery, but research has shown that the public is almost completely unaware of the science and its applications. ...

DNA 'tricked' to act as nano-building blocks

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Apr 13, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- McGill researchers have succeeded in finding a new way to manufacture nanotubes, one of the important building blocks of the nanotechnology of the future. Their building material? Biological DNA.

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