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The Friends of the Earth Australia Nanotechnology Project is seeking a dynamic campaigner. The role is focussed on alliance building and outreach, communications work and volunteer management. Key functions of the position are to raise the profile of nanotechnology issues within civil society and to help create opportunities for growth of the Nanotechnology Project. Applications are sought from those with a ... Read More »

Researchers are using nanotechnology to develop a medical dressing which will detect and treat infection in wounds. Scientists at the University of Bath and the burns team at the Southwest UK Paediatric Burns Centre at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol are working together with teams across Europe and Australia to create an advanced wound dressing. The dressing will work by releasing ... Read More »

SciTech Europe Invest.Innovate.Integrate 23rd November 2010 The Square, Brussels, Belgium The European Commission’s innovation action plan will look at what can be done to help Europe compete with the US, China, India and Japan. Greater partnerships, research collaborations and private investment can help convert leading research and development into marketable products. One of the stumbling blocks is a more risk ... Read More »

Imagine being able to drop a toothpick on the head of one particular person standing among 100,000 people in a stadium. It sounds impossible, yet this degree of precision at the cellular level has been demonstrated by researchers affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University Institute for NanoBioTechnology. Their study was published online in June in Nature Nanotechnology. The team used ... Read More »

COMS brings together leaders from all over the world and every sector of industry; from high tech companies, national labs, regional development and government agencies, investment and consulting groups, market researchers, educators and students; all sharing, learning and creating partnerships in an open interactive setting. This is a powerful environment focused on accelerating commercialization activity among established and emerging micro ... Read More »

In discussions of nanotechnology, it has become increasingly common to emphasise the importance of ‘responsible governance’. This study focused on the issue of environmental governance and was specifically interested in critically exploring the relationship between nature and nanotechnology. It began by characterising a range of narratives commonly told about nature and nanotechnology and suggested that each of these was a ... Read More »

In discussions of nanotechnology, it has become increasingly common to emphasise the importance of ‘responsible governance’. This study focused on the issue of environmental governance and was specifically interested in critically exploring the relationship between nature and nanotechnology. It began by characterising a range of narratives commonly told about nature and nanotechnology and suggested that each of these was a ... Read More »