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INMC to take selected UK nanotechnology SMEs to first of three major worldwide events. The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK’s primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, and the Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), a professional membership organisation for the nanotechnology industry, has announced its collaboration that with the support of Technology Strategy Board funding, will encourage ... Read More »

Using chemical “nanoblasts” that punch tiny holes in the protective membranes of cells, researchers have demonstrated a new technique for getting therapeutic small molecules, proteins and DNA directly into living cells. Carbon nanoparticles activated by bursts of laser light trigger the tiny blasts, which open holes in cell membranes just long enough to admit therapeutic agents contained in the surrounding ... Read More »

A newly discovered nanomaterial could improve healthcare devices by increasing energy storage, help realize implantable microchips or make better drugs, according to the cover story in the latest issue of Advanced Functional Materials. Scientists at the University of Texas have created silicon nanoneedles with modulated porosity. The nanoporous needles are flexible, semiconductors, biodegradable and have a surface one hundred times ... Read More »

EnviroGene’s services and DNA technology are helping to overcome the issues posed when dealing with water pollution in the face of increasing regulatory-driven demand to cut direct costs, prevent unnecessary spending and achieve performance targets. EnviroTrace DNA-based tracers map water flow from multiple geographic sources to establish relative contributions of pollution from each source. Because they are based on DNA ... Read More »

Events Don Eigler, IBM, USA, “Playing with atoms” The pioneer of nanotechnology talks about how to see and play with atoms. More information is available on the Eventbrite site. Don is the winner of the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. The prizes were founded in 2008 by the Norwegian Government as an equivalent to the Nobel Prizes. The Great Hall, ... Read More »

One Chicago skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them. A Northwestern University research team has done just that — drawing 15,000 identical skylines with tiny beams of light using an innovative nanofabrication technology called beam-pen lithography (BPL). Details of the new method, which could do for nanofabrication what the desktop printer has done for printing and information transfer, ... Read More »

HONOLULU—Science and religion do not need to quarrel, a molecular engineer and an ethicist told participants at the 20th Baptist World Congress. Clayton Teague, director of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, and Bill Tillman, professor of Christian ethics at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon Seminary, explored how Christians can engage the technological advances that enable scientists to re-engineer life. “Science is ... Read More »