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Researchers Find Nanoparticles Can Damage Nearby DNA

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Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that nanoparticles being used to fight cancer can damage the DNA in nearby cells. Their research has been published in the current issu…

Louisiana Tech Researchers Seek to Improve Biofuel Processing

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Louisiana Tech researchers are exploring ways of using nanotechnology to improve the cellulosic ethanol processes.
"Louisiana Tech Professors James Palmer, Yuri Lvov, Dale Sno…

Toronto Researchers Design Cancer-Detecting Microchip

University of Toronto scientists have developed a microchip that can be used to determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer in under 30 minutes.
"By uniting DNA with miniaturized …

Nanotech Turns 20

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Just over 20 years ago, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom — and two months later, he spelled out the letters IBM with 3…

MIT and LIMR Announce Nanotech Ovarian Cancer Therapy

Researchers at MIT and the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR) have published a paper in the journal Cancer Research suggesting that nanoparticles may be used to deliver a "suicide g…

Dana-Farber Researchers Create DNA Origami

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a technique for folding sheets of DNA, like origami, into multilayered objects. The research was published in the May 21 issue of Nature….

Swinburne University Researchers Create ‘Five-Dimensional’ DVDs

Researchers at Australia's Swinburne University of Technology today announced the development of a 'five-dimensional' DVD with a capacity 2,000 times that of current DVDs.
"By adding…

UB Researchers Develop Nanotech Addiction Treatment

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed a new nanotech treatment for drug addiction.
"Scientists in UB's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and UB's Departme…

UT Researchers Create Nanotech Artificial Muscles

In the March 20 issue of the journal Science, researchers at the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas have published an article entitled 'Giant Stroke, Supere…

Cancer Research UK Announces Nanotech Breakthrough

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Following up on the post below, more nanotech cancer-fighting news: researchers at Cancer Research UK this week announced the development of a treatment &…