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EnSol AS in collaboration with University of Leicester and an international team of scientists and industrialists will meet for the development of a new revolutionary technology that supplies electrical power.This new thin film solar cell technology should be developed commercially by 2016, but for now, the company i... |
10 August 2010
09:24 GMT |
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Ever since the field of nanotechnology began developing, researchers have recognized the importance that these small particles had in fighting conditions such as cancer. Destroying tumors by using such an approach is possible, but a lot of care needs to be exercised in order to ensure that as little healthy tissue as... |
10 August 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Cancer is one of the most devastating diseases in the world today. When patients are infected, or develop the condition due to their unhealthy lifestyle, tumors appear and develop really fast. Some forms of cancer kill in years, whereas others take only a few months to do their nasty work. A potential approach to tre... |
9 August 2010
06:50 GMT |
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For the past few years, the field of nanotechnology has been experiencing a massive rise in popularity among scientists. Advancements made thus far are beginning to catch up with old science fiction books, and yet there are still some concerns holding research back. One of these issues is determining the extent of th... |
9 August 2010
04:22 GMT |
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At first glance, introducing nanotechnology into the field of designing and building construction materials may seem like a good idea. Nanoparticles can be used to create self-healing concrete, self-washing windows, as well as a host of other “smart” materials, which are bound to make the lives of constru... |
29 July 2010
03:21 GMT |
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A team of experts from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announces the development of a new method of piercing through cellular walls. This is notoriously hard to do, despite the small sizes these structures have. According to the group, their method relies on using small chemical explosions at the n... |
28 July 2010
10:10 GMT |
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One of the main reasons cancer kills even after aggressive therapies is applied is the fact that cancerous cells have the ability to migrate to other organs. That is to say, they can become separated from the site of the original tumor, and then enter the bloodstream. From here, it can go anywhere it chooses, and fin... |
28 July 2010
09:10 GMT |
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A group of investigators has recently managed a breakthrough that is bound to bring hope to the millions of people suffering from a degenerative eye condition known as retinitis pigmentosa. The disease is characterized by dysfunctions in the retina's photoreceptor cells, which are shaped either as cones or rods.... |
12 June 2010
04:40 GMT |
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A group of investigators from Spain say that they managed to develop a new method of protecting human cells against ethanol damage. This compound is contained in alcohol, and adding it into the bloodstream can have negative repercussions on the way cells function. But the science team learned that, by adding a very s... |
7 June 2010
06:02 GMT |
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A variety of drug-resistant viruses may have just found their match, researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say. Working in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Buffalo, the experts managed to devise a new means of delivering a drug payload to cells that relies on using... |
25 May 2010
10:06 GMT |
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Skin cancer can be more efficiently addressed by placing drugs inside modified silica particles, a new study shows. Researchers demonstrated that honeycomb-like structures made of custom-built silica can safely harbor antibodies aimed at cancer tumors, until they reach their destination. Generally, the human immune s... |
24 May 2010
05:11 GMT |
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A collaboration between two institutions at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) recently managed to produce the most detailed images of nanoparticle crystallization taking place in real time. Physicists from the Advanced Photon Source (APS) worked together with colleagues from t... |
18 May 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Whenever brain surgeons perform an operation, they rely on data obtained through various medical imaging methods to determine the best course of action. However, in some instances, the resolution of the available data leaves a lot to be desired, as some tumors are not readily visible on scans. In a bid to improve sur... |
30 April 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Researchers from the Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College of Medicine announce the development of a new type of nanoparticle, which they say could protect patients against the harmful effects of radiotherapy. This course of treatment is oftentimes used on cancer patients, but it has a number of negative side-ef... |
27 April 2010
06:40 GMT |
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The field of electronics along with a host of industry representatives and healthcare experts admit that nanoparticles are most likely the materials of the future. These small structures, measuring only billionths of a meter in size, can be used to deliver drugs, create more efficient electronics, and produce cotton ... |
12 April 2010
07:05 GMT |
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One of the main goals researchers in medicine have been striving towards over the past few years is developing extremely efficient sensors that could be implanted in the human body and used to monitor and track the development of various diseases. Having this ability would ensure that the most correct course of treat... |
29 March 2010
03:55 GMT |
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In a finding that could revolutionize the fields of automotive design, computing and health care, researchers and engineers at the University of Florida have recently been able to ignite certain types of nanoparticles. They used weak lasers to get the job done, and say that the achievement bears considerable implicat... |
19 March 2010
05:19 GMT |
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Any first-grader will tell you that matter can bend and twist light. This is obvious in anything from mirrors to space telescopes, and from lasers to polarizing 3D glasses. But the opposite interaction has almost never been observed, in the sense that experts rarely saw light influence matter in the same way. Now, in... |
18 March 2010
07:56 GMT |
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Researchers at the Rice University have recently conducted a series of tests on an elegant set of equations that was developed around 1908 by German physicist Gustav Mie. What the formulas do is basically predict the interaction of electromagnetic waves with a spherical metal particle. The predictions are so precise ... |
13 March 2010
04:01 GMT |
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Experts from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have recently managed to obtain a new type of particles, that could prove to be very efficient in destroying cancer cells. The team says that their nanoscale discs can literally shake cancer cells to death, potentially providing a... |
18 February 2010
11:10 GMT |
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A research team that was already involved in developing one of the most groundbreaking medical devices in history is now working on improving its original design, which was made available in the 1980s. The scientists, based at the University of Buffalo (UB), created lithium/silver vanadium oxide batteries to power im... |
11 February 2010
10:30 GMT |
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In a new approach to fighting cancer cells, or cells ridden by several other types of diseases as well, researchers managed to combine the powers of lasers and nanoparticles most efficiently. The method relies on using short bursts of laser light to produce small explosions from gold particles that have been placed i... |
6 February 2010
06:27 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of technology (Georgia Tech) and the Ovarian Cancer Institute have recently developed a new type of nanoparticles that could be used in the near future to successfully fight cancer. The magnetic particles are able to find and affix themselves to cancer cells, and then eliminate the... |
1 February 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Over the past few years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become one of the most widely used investigation techniques in medicine. Its amazing capabilities, of producing detailed, 3D images of what is going on inside the body, without actually having to use surgery to look at the organs directly, helped save many... |
22 January 2010
03:46 GMT |
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Many people currently suffering from conditions of the heart or the circulatory system are prescribed treatments that revolve around the implantation of stents inside their bodies. These devices are placed inside veins, and their job is to gradually release drugs in such a manner that they get absorbed very well by ... |
19 January 2010
03:10 GMT |
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Nanoparticles are among the most promising materials to be incorporated in the medical therapies of tomorrow. They can be constructed so as to carry vaccine molecules directly to the place of interest, or can be made to glow in certain wavelengths, evidencing various targets inside the human body for medical imaging ... |
14 January 2010
05:33 GMT |
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Metal nanocrystals, carbon nanotubes and semiconducting nanowires are just a few of the amazing, new types of materials that have been produced by nanotechnology in the past few years. They hold enormous potential in the fields of electronics and medicine, among others, but efforts to create new and groundbreaking de... |
8 January 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the Purdue University announce the creation of a new type of material that may become in the near future the basis of very small motors and robots. The magnetic ferropaper could be used in highly precise surgical tools, as well as in tiny robots, designed to navigate the intricate maze of the human circ... |
6 January 2010
04:00 GMT |
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Scientists at the Universities of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB), San Diego (UCSD) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently developed a potent mix, or cocktail, or various types of nanoparticles, which is extremely apt at targeting and destroying cancer tumors. The group reports that the ... |
5 January 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Scientists working with small particles at the nanoscale have recently revealed that they have developed a new type of synthetic blood platelets, which have twice the clotting capabilities of the standard variety. In the experiments they conducted on lab mice, the science group, which are based at the Case Western Un... |
18 December 2009
21:01 GMT |
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In theory, some types of nanoparticles should be able to conglomerate into molecular clusters on account of the fact that Casimir forces tend to balance each other. Achieving such structures would be a considerable breakthrough, especially when considering that it was only in 1997 that the Casimir force was accuratel... |
15 December 2009
09:07 GMT |
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At this point in time, the basis of nanomedicine is placed on tiny, small-scale structures, which are constructed in such a way that they target a specific chemical that a certain group of cells emits. The ultimate goal is to make the nanoparticles zoom in on the disease cells and then penetrate them. The nanostructu... |
9 December 2009
02:39 GMT |
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As scientists working with nanoparticles know, detecting the extremely small formations can be as difficult as producing them in the first place. They have to be searched for using advanced pieces of technology, and even then there is no guarantee that they will be found. Now, experts at the Washington University in ... |
4 December 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Scientists from a number of universities in Finland have joined forces for a common interest, the development of a silicon-based delivery system at the nanoscale. The innovation holds great promise for carrying drugs to their alloted destinations, and may also provide a new way of combating obesity and excessive appe... |
4 December 2009
10:46 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying to produce metallic nanoparticles able to withstand large temperatures for a long time, but their efforts have thus far been in vein. These small structures could come in handy as catalysts for hydrogen production, or as active components in new catalysts systems, which might see cars emit... |
1 December 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently announced a major breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology, when they managed to get custom-built nanoparticles of precise shapes to self-assemble in a liquid crystal medium. Getting such structures to at least interact with each other ... |
25 November 2009
10:27 GMT |
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Scientists at the Stanford University announce the completion of a new class of electronic devices, fully biodegradable organic transistors. The materials hold great promise for the field of medicine, where they could be used to control temporary medical implants, before being harmlessly absorbed within the organism ... |
14 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Magnetic nanoparticles (mNPs) have been heavily researched for the past ten years, and serious advancements have been made during this time. Studies have resulted in these structures being made capable to carry white blood cells, deadly agents to counteract infections or tumors at specific locations in the body. Othe... |
6 November 2009
10:58 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking, new discovery that may have significant implications for anything from energy production and global-warming mitigation to creating better and cheaper medicines and fuels, scientists at the University of Utah have recently managed to find out numerous new data on the general action mechanism of ca... |
6 November 2009
10:12 GMT |
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The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based BIND Biosciences, a start-up, is currently working on a new method of creating nanoparticle-enclosed drugs, which have, in test trials, proven to be extremely effective at destroying cancer cells in tumors. In charge of the work is head of process development, Greg Troiano, who over... |
4 November 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Scientists at the Duke University have recently announced the development of a new type of nanoscale drug delivery system, which shows great promise for treating cancer. According to the experts, animal models that had developed cancer had their tumors annihilated by chemotherapy drugs loaded onto the new cells after... |
2 November 2009
02:51 GMT |
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A team of scientists has recently managed to produce a new type of measurement technology that relies on the optical resonances that form inside nanoparticles. These so-called plasmon resonances may prove to be the basis for a new class of sensors, experts from the Chalmers University of Technology, who have been beh... |
26 October 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Many scientists in the international community believe that nanomaterials hold the key to tomorrow's technologies. They may be used in medicine, computing, electronics and environmental sciences, but one of the issues that prevents that from happening right now is the materials' inability to self-assemble, ... |
23 October 2009
18:41 GMT |
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Scientists working with nanoparticles tout them as the way of the future in a large number of research fields, ranging from computing and chemistry to electronics and medicine. However, in order for the tiny structures to be of any good, they need to fulfill certain demands. Creating them after strict specifications ... |
25 September 2009
02:55 GMT |
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According to a new scientific paper, published in the September 22nd issue of the respected scientific journal ACS Nano, experts at the University of Liverpool finally managed to discover what happened to nanoparticles after they were introduced in human cells. The study, which was funded by the Biotechnology and Bio... |
23 September 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Experts from the Children's Hospital Boston (CHB) have recently devised a new method of controlling nanoparticles and the drugs they contain, via the use of magnets. There is little doubt among healthcare professionals that nanostructures will deliver drugs to people's bodies in the future. But one of t... |
19 September 2009
04:46 GMT |
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In a new study published online in the September 13th issue of the journal Nature Materials, experts at the Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT) and the University of Ulm announced that they had managed to get high-resolution, 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell for the first time. Knowing the nanosca... |
14 September 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Creating the best possible reactants and catalysts is the basic step in any chemical reaction, as long as experts know what they are trying to obtain. In recent years, chemists have noticed that nanoparticles featuring both platinum and gold make for an exquisite catalyst in a variety of chemical reactions related to... |
1 September 2009
01:53 GMT |
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Experts from the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, have recently announced that they are working on a new electronic nose that will have the ability to detect early signs of lung cancer, before the disease advances far enough to show up on conventional viewing methods such as X-rays and MRI. Relying on the po... |
31 August 2009
01:40 GMT |
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Ever since micro- and nano-technology first appeared, there has been a steady strive on the part of researchers to develop ways of manipulating structures formed at such small scales. The efforts have grown considerably once experts have started realizing that nanostructures – billionths of times smaller th... |
29 August 2009
05:58 GMT |
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