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Smartphones put the moves on social networking
Mobile social networking ruled on Saturday as the techno-hip at South By South West (SXSW) used location-based services on smartphones to track down everything from panels to parties....
Family history is strong predictor of obstructive coronary artery disease using CCTA
In the largest study of its kind to date using cardiac computed tomography angiography, people with a family history of early signs of coronary artery disease are at higher risk of developing obstructive coronary artery disease and plaque in their arteries, Henry Ford Hospital researchers say....
Study: New risk score tool more accurately predicts patients' risk for cardiac disease and death
Researchers from the Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, have devised a better way to determine an individual's risk for problems, such as heart attack and heart failure, according to a new study....
Psychopaths' brains wired to seek rewards, no matter the consequences
The brains of psychopaths appear to be wired to keep seeking a reward at any cost, new research from Vanderbilt University finds. The research uncovers the role of the brain's reward system in psychopathy and opens a new area of study for understanding what drives these individuals....
New cancer drug screening technique more closely mirrors reality
Improving on traditional screening tests for potential anti-cancer drugs, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a laboratory technique that more closely simulates the real-world conditions in which tumor cells mingle with the body's normal cells....
New microscopy technique offers close-up, real-time view of cellular phenomena
For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Now, MIT scientists have recorded the first microscopic images showing the deadly effects of AMPs, most of which kill by poking holes in bacterial cell membranes....
Metamodern
The molecular approach to atomically precise fabrication
A few days ago, I wrote a brief sketch of the status and paths forward in the molecular approach to atomically precise fabrication. It offers a sampling, not a full picture: The status of the key technologies The technologies of biomolecular and chemical synthesis are now capable of fabricating a substantial range...
Ribo-Q1: Genetic manufacturing expanded
Unnatural amino acids compatible with ribosomes (circled: azide, alkyne, and biotin derivative) From Neumann et al., 2010 and Dougherty, 2000. All ribosomes read genetic data as three-letter words that encode 20 standard amino acids (give or take a few anomalies). This is equally true of the ribosomes...
How to study for a career in nanotechnology
Students often ask me for advice on how to study for a career in nanotechnology, and as you might imagine, providing a good answer is challenging. “Nanotechnology” refers to a notoriously broad range of areas of science and technology, and progress during a student’s career will open new areas, and...
Chemists deserve more credit: Atoms, Einstein, and the Matthew Effect
Johann Josef Loschmidt Chemist, atomic scientist Chemists understood the atomic structure of molecules in the 1800s, yet many say that Einstein established the existence of atoms in a paper on Brownian motion, “Die von der Molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme Gefordete Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten Suspendierten Teilchen”, published in 1905. This...
“Cells” (Courtesy, Robert Hooke) Synthetic biology doesn’t require cells, and in several ways, cells are liabilities. Cells can make engineering difficult. Cell membranes and bacterial walls stand between new genes and the machinery needed to transcribe and translate them. They are barriers to liberating gene products. They contain systems that are complex...
Exploiting strong, covalent bonds for self assembly of robust nanosystems
“Porous, Crystalline, Covalent Organic Frameworks”Côté et al. Atomically precise self-assembly of complex structures can be engineered by providing for multiple binding interactions that Cooperate to stabilize the correct configuration, in a thermodynamic sense, and Do not stabilize any other configuration, in a kinetic sense Roughly speaking, in the correct configuration, the parts fit together...
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Understanding Public Debate on Nanotechnologies: Options for Framing Public Policy
A new publication outlines the nature of the public debate on nanosciences and nanotechnologies....
Organising Collective Responsibility
A new paper makes a case for organizing collective responsibility through instruments beyond the regulatory system, such as codes of conduct and various deliberative assessment mechanisms within and outside the policy context....
A call for more transparency and research funding for nanotechnology in the food industry
The UK House of Lords Science and Technology Committee today released its first report of session 2009-10 “Nanotechnologies and Food” where they criticized the food industry for “failing to be transparent about its research into the uses of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials.”...
Pretty much as predicted, the long awaited convergence of nanotechnology and biotechnology has arrived. Can environmental protection, still cleaning up the last Industrial Revolution, avoid the perils while realizing the promises of manufacturing at an atomic scale?...
Members of Wisconsin State Assembly Seek Nanotechnology Registry
Three members of the Wisconsin State Legislature have requested a Legislative Council study to be conducted on the feasibility of creating a nanotechnology registry and the development of subsequent legislation, to monitor the use, manufacture and disposal of nanomaterials in Wisconsin....
Do You Know Nano? Internship Opportunities at the Project
The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies is a fast-paced science policy group within the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Current openings for part-time internships....
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Scientists Urge Nanotechnology Vigilance
A Canadian scientist says he and his colleagues have developed a way to measure nanomaterials in blood vessels....
APAC to See Highest Nanotech Growth
Nanotechnology is an evolving technology that has influenced a large number of industrial segments and is set to play a pivotal role in various industry segments in the 21st century....
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Nanoparticles used to make some sunscreens transparent may also be toxic, according to Australian research....
Access Pharmaceuticals Reports Significant Oral Bioavailability of...
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Indian-American professor turns chicken feathers into fuel
By Arun Kumar, Washington, March 11 : Manoranjan 'Mano' Misra, an Indian American professor known for turning coffee grounds and chicken feathers into fuel, been honoured as the 2010 Regents' Researcher by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents....
MicroConstants Now Offers Nanoparticle Formulation Services
MicroConstants, a GLP-compliant Contract Research Organization specializing in bioanalytical and pharmacokinetic analysis, has acquired access to a new nanosizing technology that transforms water insoluble compounds into nanoparticles, making formulation preparation and dosing for toxicology studies easier....
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Manufacturing's Game-Changing Innovations
SME Unveils Annual "Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture" List...
Iranian Nano-Scientists Improve Physical Properties of Computers
Iranian researchers invented a mechanism for changing and improving the properties of computer hardware by changing nanolayers' thickness....
Cell-All: Super Smartphones Sniff Out Suspicious Substances
Crowdsourcing cell phones to detect dangerous chemicals...
Innovations That Could Change the Way You Shop, Drive and Phone
SME Unveils Its Annual Innovations List...
Nanotechnology in Advanced Materials & Aerospace, Friday, March 19, 2010. HTC Conference Center 410 Pierce Street 7:15am- noon...
Rice team tests century-old calculations By Mike Williams, Rice News Staff...
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Live webcast tomorrow March 12 on U.S. Nat’l Nanotech Initiative
Wondering how U.S. federal nanotech tax dollars are spent? Obama’s first President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) review will be webcast live tomorrow, March 12. This review only occurs every two years so this is your big chance to see what the current administration thinks of the...
I’m on my way to AGI-10, the general AI conference, in Lugano. If any readers are attending, let’s get together. Among other things, we’ll be unveiling a preliminary take on the AGI Roadmap (of which Foresight is a sponsor)....
The UK-based Institute of Physics (IOP) publishes, among other things, the journal Nanotechnology, one of the leading journals in the field, and has had special issues with papers from Foresight conferences gaoing back to the 90s. It was thus somewhat surprising, yet gratifying, to find them submitting quite a strongly-worded critique...
It’s been snowing continuously here for about 2 days. The heaviest snows I’ve experienced in my life (for any significant amount of time) were an inch an hour, but this has been half that — amounting to a foot a day. If it were to keep snowing like this for a...
Robin Hanson comments on David Brin’s response to a New Scientist editorial. As Brin notes, many would-be broadcasters come from an academic area where for decades the standard assumption has been that aliens are peaceful zero-population-growth no-nuke greens, since we all know that any other sort quickly destroy themselves. This seems...
Let’s try to pull all the threads together, as futurists — which is the whole point here — and get some idea about when it might be reasonable to expect AI to show up. When I say AI I want to look at the entire diahuman range, so the answer...
Nano Tech Wire
Physicists take atoms for a walk
A team of physicists realize a quantum walk in a quantum system with up to 23 steps. It is the first time that this quantum process using trapped ions is demonstrated in detail....
Can we detect quantum behavior in viruses?
The weird world of quantum mechanics describes the strange, often contradictory, behaviour of small inanimate objects such as atoms. Researchers have now started looking for ways to detect quantum properties in more complex and larger entities, possibly even living organisms....
Behavior of single protein observed in unprecedented detail by Stanford chemists
For the first time, researchers have been able to confine and study an individual protein, one that plays a key role in photosynthesis, without having to pin it down so tightly as to alter its fundamental behavior....
Quantum dots spotlight DNA-repair proteins in motion
Repair proteins appear to efficiently scan the genome for errors by jumping like fleas between DNA molecules, sliding along the strands, and perhaps pausing at suspicious spots, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Essex and the University of Vermont who tagged the proteins with quantum dots...
Owlstone Receives Additional Funding From US Government
The contract modification provides additional resources for the continued miniaturization of the surrounding electronics employed in Owlstone's chemical detection solution....
Drug-delivery research shows early promise
Northeastern University pharmaceutical sciences professor Mansoor Amiji is leading interdisciplinary research into nanotechnology-based methods of drug delivery that could provide breakthroughs in treating diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia and HIV/AIDS....
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A Concerted Effort To Save British Science
The past week has seen some strong and effective lobbying from the scientific community, naturally worried about some rather dim politician seeing the science budget as being available to plunder, with the next government having to deal with any consequences. It’s therefore good to see various former science ministers, and...
Geoengineering – Engineering an All Purpose Political Smokescreen?
There’s nothing like the mention of Geoengineering to get environmental groups even madder than putting a wasps nest down their trousers and beating them with a cricket bat, and for good reason. The idea that we could do something about climate change that didn’t involve re-engineering the political system would...
The Enforced Idleness of Nanoparticle Toxicologists
My esteemed (and allegedly cute) colleague Dexter Johnson comments on a number of recent nanoparticle toxicity projects and wonders what is the point of them. I’ve often asked the same question (and been asked to leave the room as a result), but there does seem to be a weird academic...
Strategic Geopolitical Trends – From Spooks to Nanotech
The UK Ministry of Defence released its latest ‘Global Strategic Trends – Out to 2040‘ study last month, and it’s a good read (even for non spooks) covering everything from terrorism to to climate change and their impact on geopolitics. The report identifies four key issues, Globalisation, Climate Change, Global Inequality &...
Today’s ‘Vision for UK Research‘ document sets out the recommendations for the future of research in the UK. More worrying is the report that the raw material that will be turned into those researchers, a fifth of primary school pupils are failing in English & Maths. The Vision for UK Research document goes...
A Long Term Vision for Research
The UK Council for Science and Technology released its ‘Vision for UK Research‘ document today. It’s all interesting stuff, looking at how to position the UK in a changing world and doesn’t shy away from making some recommendations that will rattle a few cages) four year PhDs for example). I particularly...
Nanotechnology Development Blog
New silicon drift detector (SDD) designed for nanotechnology characterization
SII NanoTechnology Inc;, is one of the leading company engaged in development and research activities in the areas of X-ray detection and spectrometric systems has recently designed a custom silicon drift detector (SDD). The new detector has larger solid angle improved roughly twenty times than the conventional one and therefore...
Nanotechnology to be used for scanning hear failures
Researchers are working hard to use nanotechnology for wide applications such as consumer electronics, energy, biotechnology, medicine etc. In a recent study European researchers studied the nanoscale scanning techniques, which could be utilized for better understanding of heart failure. The study will lead a suitable treatment for the people who...
Nanotox to provide complete risk analysis of nanoparticles
Nanotox, a new company will analyze the complete risk profile of various nanoparticles used for a number of products and processes. The analysis will not only cover the health risk but it will also focus on environmental risks associated with the use of nanoparticles. Recently Professor Michael Depledge,a renowned environmental authority...
Nanotechnology to be applied for advance coating
Nanotechnology has grown far away and researchers have developed its application for advance coating to many specialty products and the nanocoating can significantly enhance the life and performance of these materials. North Dakota State University (NSDU) is known for its very first initiative in coating when it offered first coating course...
Nanotechnology based therapeutic agents improves fighting with cancer
Although nanotechnology has grown a mature way and has found applications in almost all fields of science and technology, energy, consumer products, electronics etc., it’s application in medicine will bring relief to many people around the globe. Around the world people are investigating various ways to use nanotechnology for either...
Nanotechnology to play significant role in quantum technology
Researchers at Harvard University have gone a step forward by creating diamond-based nanowire devices that can significantly enhance the existing quantum technology applications. The new developed nanostructured diamond devices offers stable and bright source of light at ambient and are suitable for computing, quantum communication, biochemical sensing and many other...
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Citizens working hard to attract Google to Troy (The Troy Record)
TROY — With cities across the nation vying to stand out and attract Google’s broadband network, local citizens have been hard at work trying to attract the company to the Collar City....
Carbon nanotubes have powerful potential (The Westerly Sun)
The rechargeable lithium-ion batteries now so common in everything from iPods to hybrid cars can store twice the energy of similarly sized nickel-metal hydride batteries and up to six times as much as their lead-acid progenitors....
Star scientist hit with funding ban (Ottawa Citizen)
Canada’s largest research-funding organization has slapped an extraordinary ban on a star scientist who is accused of “plagiarism” and spending up to $150,000 in government grant money on custom car parts, televisions, home entertainment systems and other equipment “inconsistent” with his research proposals....
Designer nano luggage to carry drugs to diseased cells (Science Daily)
Scientists have succeeded in growing empty particles derived from a plant virus and have made them carry useful chemicals. The external surface of these nano containers could be decorated with molecules that guide them to where they are needed in the body, before the chemical load is discharged to exert...
A major intellectual property jury trial, involving the theft of trade secret information and the breach of Non-Disclosure Agreement , is set to start on Monday, March 15, 2010. Â The trial is in Hayward, California, Department 512, Judge John True, III....
Professor Awarded Two NIH Grants to Examine Nanotechnology-Based Methods of Drug Delivery (Newswise)
Northeastern research teams win National Institutes of Health exploratory grants to support separate projects to develop more effective, nanotechnology-based cancer and brain-disease therapies....
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Barium Titanate Nanopowder (BaTiO3), -100nm 99%+ Pure on a Trace Metal Basis from Sigma Aldrich...
Sigma-Aldrich can supply Barium Titanate Nanopowder with a particle size of less than 100nm and purity of greater then 99%. Properties and details about the Barium Titanate Nanopowder that Sigma-Aldrich can supply are provided within....
Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticle Dispersion 10 wt.% in H2O, -200 nm from Sigma Aldrich...
Sigma-Aldrich can supply Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticle Dispersions that can be used for biomedical and biomaterial applications. Properties and details about the Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticle Dispersions that Sigma-Aldrich can supply are provided herein....
Silicon Nanopowder -100nm 98%+ Pure on a Trace Metal Basis from Sigma Aldrich...
Sigma-Aldrich can supply Silicon Nanopowder with a particle size of less than 100nm and purity of greater then 98%. Properties and details about the Silicon Nanopowder that Sigma-Aldrich can supply are provided within....
Gold Nanopowder -100nm 99.9%+ Pure on a Trace Metal Basis from Sigma Aldrich...
Sigma-Aldrich can supply Gold Nanopowders that can be intercalated within polymer matrices to alter their adsorption beavior. Properties and details about the Gold Nanopowder that Sigma-Aldrich can supply are provided below....
Sigma-Aldrich can supply Titanium(IV) Oxide - Anatase Nanopowder. Properties and details about the Titanium(IV) Oxide - Anatase Nanopowder that Sigma-Aldrich can supply are provided herein....
Silica Nanopowder (SiO2) 10-20nm 99.5% Pure on a Trace Metal Basis from Sigma Aldrich...
Sigma-Aldrich can supply Silica Nanopowder. Properties and details about the Silica Nanopowder that Sigma-Aldrich can supply are provided herein....
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Nanotubes transport therapeutic boron to cancer cells
Functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes evaluated as potential carrier vehicles for BNCT...
Plasmonic nanostructures enhance light fields
New composite structures are promising for optics and sensing applications...
Catalyst pre-treatment produces isolated CNT bundles
French team studies effect of hydrogen plasma on iron layer to enhance functionalization prospects...
Graphene makes ultrafast laser
Cambridge University team's result paves the way to graphene-based photonics...
Are DC mobility extractions for nanostructures trustworthy?
Pulsed characterization pinpoints problems in direct-current measurement of CNT devices...
Yale University selects Vistec EBPG5000plus Electron-Beam Lithography System
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Welcome to Avionics Intelligence Blog where our staff and contributors share their opinions on not only happenings in the avionics industry but the world in general. It is not a source for hard news content as we have our website for that, but rather a lighter, more personal exchange of...
In his weekly blog David will share his insights and opinions on current activities affecting industrial laser materials processing…and anything else that moves him....
Welcome to Avionics Intelligence Blog where our staff and contributors share their opinions on not only happenings in the avionics industry but the world in general. It is not a source for hard news content as we have our website for that, but rather a lighter, more personal exchange of...
Working Smart in Photonics, the blog by photonics industry expert Sarah Diggs, focuses on the technical skills needed by engineers, researchers, and technicians in photonics. Sarah brings more than two decades of experience with lasers, optics, alignment, and other topics to play in her discussions, which encompass both “book learning”...
Being part of the energy industry in Houston, dubbed the "energy capital of the world," Mikaila finds herself thinking "all energy, all the time." Welcome to her outlet....
Nanotechnology Law Report
Gold Nanoparticles as X-ray Contrast Agents for Damaged Bone Tissue
The accumulation of microdamage in bone has long been linked by physicians to increased risk of fractures in both physically active individuals and the elderly. The role of microdamage in bone fragility has not been well studied due to limited capabilities for detecting such damage. Current imaging techniques are, by...
Nanodialog.eu -- Nanotechnology Law Report Reaches Poland
Our friends at Nanodialog.eu will now be publishing summaries of select nanolawreport blogs in Polish. Here's an example: ...
"Nanotechnology Law" -- Now Online
Readers may be interested in learning that my 2009 book "Nanotechnology Law" is now online. You can find it on Westlaw as Nanotechnology Law (NANOTECH). The Westlaw version is very helpful because you can now electronically search for any nano-related legal topic and let your computer do all the work...
National Nanotechnology Coordination Office Announces a Public Meeting
Today's Federal Register carries a notice of a public meeting on Tuesday March 30th and Wednesday March 31st 2010 to be held at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn-Key Bridge in Arlington Virginia . The meeting will be a workshop designed "to provide an open forum to discuss the state-of-the-art of the science related...
We are all familiar, at this point in time, with the concept of "good" (HDL) and "bad" (LDL)cholesterol and with the effects of a build up of "bad" cholesterol on the walls of arteries and other blood vessels. Cardiovascular disease is now the leading cause of death in the United...
EPA to Reverse Position on 'Existing' Nanomaterials
Last September we predicted that sometime in 2010 EPA would reverse its "distinct molecular identity" approach to determining when and whether nanoscale materials are considered New Chemical Substances requiring premanufacturing notice and approval under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). We have been advising clients accordingly. Inside EPA is now reporting...
Chemicals & Nanomaterials
Industry to EPA, Congress: Restrain me before I falsely claim CBI again!
Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Sara Goodman of Greenwire/E&E News had a great piece picked up by the New York Times yesterday about state governments pressing for meaningful TSCA reform. I blogged earlier about the states’ reform principles, quoting Ted Sturdevant, Director of the Washington State Department of Ecology,...
EPA IG report: New Chemicals Program fails to assure protection
Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. In a post to this blog nearly a year ago, I noted that many voices in the chemical industry were claiming that EPA’s New Chemicals Program (NCP) was robust and served as an excellent model for TSCA reform. My post took considerable issue with...
Worse than we thought: Decades of out-of-control CBI claims under TSCA
Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. I recently obtained – not without some effort on both EPA’s and my part – a scanned copy of a 1992 report commissioned by EPA innocuously titled “Influence of CBI Requirements on TSCA Implementation,” authored by the now-defunct Hampshire Research Associates. I subsequently found...
Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products: More than Just Consumer Exposure
Cal Baier-Anderson, Ph.D., is a Health Scientist. An article recently published in the journal Macromolecules reports on the development of a new process that the authors claim can prevent the migration of phthalates from PVC plastic. This “breakthrough” will undoubtedly be used to argue that industry should be allowed to continue...
Householder words — and my reply
Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Interesting exchange this afternoon between Joe Householder, Executive Director of the Coalition for Chemical Safety, and myself in comments on my last blog post. See Mr. Householder's comment here, and my reply here....
Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. The chemical industry’s fake grassroots group formed to feign broad support for its version of reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) – the Coalition for Chemical Safety, issued a press release today touting that it’s surpassed 150 members. I blogged earlier about how...
Nanotechnology News
Designer nano luggage to carry drugs to diseased cells
UK scientists have succeeded in growing empty particles derived from a plant virus and have made them carry useful chemicals. The external surface of these nano containers could be decorated with molecules that guide them to where they are needed in the body, before the chemical load is discharged to...
Researchers discover new way of producing electricity
A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say....
Trapping sunlight with silicon nanowires
Berkeley Lab researchers have found a better way to trap light in photovoltaic cells through the use of vertical arrays of silicon nanowires. This could substantially cut the costs of solar electric power by reducing the quantity and quality of silicon needed for efficient solar panels....
Popular nanoparticle causes toxicity in fish, study shows
A nanoparticle growing in popularity as a bactericidal agent has been shown to be toxic to fish, according to a Purdue University study....
Atmospheric nanoparticles impact health, weather professor says
Nanoparticles are atmospheric materials so small that they can't be seen with the naked eye, but they can very visibly affect both weather patterns and human health all over the world -- and not in a good way, according to a study by a team of researchers at Texas AandM...
Researchers make graphene hybrid
Rice University researchers have found a way to stitch graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into a two-dimensional quilt that offers new paths of exploration for materials scientists....