Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

Job Description The CSB is one of five thematic interdisciplinary Centers at the MGH that pursues systems-level research that is fundamental and linked to diagnosis and treatment of human disease. In the Center, the Weissleder lab focuses, among many things, on nanoparticle and device development and explores opportunities for their translational use in oncology. The candidate will be involved in ... Read More »

Job Title:  Postdoctoral Fellow Full/Part Time:  Full Time Location/Affiliates:  Mount Sinai Medical Center (Manhattan) Department:  821 – Cardiology Requisition Number:  PD11-1331556 Job Description: Building on your training and expertise in cardiac regenerative medicine and bionanotechnology, your independent research in the Costa Laboratory will focus on developing a nanoparticle based gene delivery platform for inducing cardiomyocyte proliferation and repair in a ... Read More »

Russian retailers got a glance at an unlikely special guest Thursday as Anatoly Chubais, chief executive of Rusnano, climbed to the stage at the country’s largest retail summit. Chubais was at Retail Business Russia 2011 to present a lineup of products that his firm developed for retailers, including high-tech price tags and super-effective cling wrap. Rusnano is offering retailers new technologies for building malls, such as energy-efficient glass and  air purification products. ... Read More »

CINCINNATI—With the discovery of a RNA nano-scaffold that remains unusually stable in the body, researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have overcome another barrier to the development of therapeutic RNA nanotechnology. Peixuan Guo, PhD, Dane and Mary Louise Miller Endowed Chair and professor of biomedical engineering, and his colleagues in UC’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, report the ... Read More »

Traceability in the textile supply chain, water management, the responsible use of chemicals and the emerging field of nanotechnology are among issues that will be tackled at the fifth annual RITE Group conference on sustainable textiles taking place in London next month. The theme this year is ‘Will supply chain transparency end greenwash?’ with the event focusing on the collection ... Read More »

Nanotechnology has a somewhat infamous relationship with flash memory. It has usually taken on the role as its adversary, such as in the case of Nantero or IBM’s Millipede project, and walked away with less than encouraging results. So I was interested to see that researchers were using graphene as a platform for flash memory that appears to outperform other flash ... Read More »

Alexandru Biris, director and chief scientist of the Nanotechnology Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been awarded the university’s first Sturgis Charitable Trust Nanotechnology Chair. A $1 million endowment to UALR from the Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust led to the investiture of Biris, associate professor of systems engineering. As director of the UALR Nanotechnology ... Read More »