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Nanomagnets can attract more cancer-fighting cells to tumors, UK researchers say.
A method to use nanoscale magnets to boost impact of gene therapies against cancer cells has been developed by U.K. researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
An international research team is using carbon nanotubes to build a nano-freight train – complete with a railbed to run on.
Dr. Max Lu, one of Australia's leading nanotechnology researchers at The University of Queensland, has been honored for his work in sustainable energy by being named to carry the Olympic torch.
Prof. Deb Bennett-Woods, an associate professor in the Department of Health Care Ethics at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, says nanotechnology is on the brink of affecting many areas of our day-to-day lives, and that now is the time to begin an enlightened discussion among many stakeholders about how to apply ethics to the study and commercialization of nanotechnology.
Top research universities in the Midwest are cooperating under a new nanotechnology consortium, whose aim will be to explore and develop basic building blocks for the nanoscale logic devices that will power future computers. Research focus areas for the group include: advanced devices, circuits and nanosystems with performance capabilities beyond conventional devices.
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The Nanophotonics Research Center (NPC), NPC seeks to deepen the fundamental knowledge of nanometer-scale light-matter interactions and exploit our findings in various kinds of new principles and technologies. NPC is is the research center for nanophotonics in The University of Tokyo. and is led by the Director Prof. Motoichi Ohtsu.
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Nanotechnology: Health and Environmental Risks introduces risk analysis as a tool for responsible environmental decision making in nanotechnology development and provides examples of past, present, and future technologies that demonstrate the need for and benefits of evaluating the risks of nanotechnology.
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Since the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), was authorized in 2003, the federal government has invested nearly $1.5 billion in small tech. The U.S. Senate has now begun hearings on what's been learned and what's been achieved, and most importantly what issues the Congress should consider for the next reauthorization. Read the testimony from David Rejeski
Director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.
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