POSTS TAGGED AS nanotechnology

Nanobiosensors for Elders

ActiveCare, Inc.(West Valley City, UT), makers of  the “ActiveOne+” monitoring watch, and Vista Therapeutics (Santa Fe, NM), developers of [MORE]

Heart-Powered Medical Devices

The piezoelectric effect explains how zinc oxide nanowires can produce an electric current during mechanical stress.  Knowing this, materials [MORE]

DNA Nanobots

Several labs have developed two dimensional and three dimensional structures out of DNA, but recently research groups in New [MORE]

Plastic RFID Tags

This story described R&D work going on a Sunchon National University in South Korea to make a more receptive [MORE]

Razzle-Dazzle Bioengineering, Berkeley

Integrated molecular diagnostic systems or “iMDs,” is the term bioengineering professor Luke Lee at UC Berkeley uses to describe [MORE]

Mimicking the Human Nervous System

“This report describes important future research directions in nanoscale science, engineering and technology.”  For instance, it describes how nanotubes [MORE]

Nanoparticles Deliver iRNA’s

Cancer researchers and physicians are awaiting clinical outcome data that Mark Davis and colleagues will present at the June [MORE]

“Nanomembrane Transistors”

Prior to ablating tissue to stop arterial fibrillation, a heart surgeon has to locate the area of the heart that [MORE]

Nanotrapping Biomakers

Originally developed to capture low levels of human growth hormone from urine specimens (indicating drug doping), nanotrap technology is expanding [MORE]

Sperm Counting Fertility Chip

Nanotechnologists at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands) have developed a lab-on-a-chip which counts sperm as they [MORE]

Nano-Agent for MRI Contrasting

The rare earth metal gadolinium is the most common contrasting agent used in MRI imaging, but like any drug, [MORE]

Nano-Enabled DNA Sequencer

The goal of a faster, less expensive sequencing-capable of reading an entire genome for $1,000–comes closer every month.  Physicist [MORE]

Nanowires for Molecular Transfers

Cell biologists have a number of ways to introduce new molecules across a membrane or wall: e.g. electroporation, viral [MORE]

Hormone Meter

One example of “disruptive innovation” is how Richard Bernstein developed the portable glucose meter in 1971 and pioneered “self-monitoring.” [MORE]

Drug-Infused Nanoparticles

Based on pioneering work Robert Langer (MIT) has done with self-assembling polymers, BIND Biosciences (Cambridge, MA) is carrying out [MORE]

Nanosensing Pathogens

Lab-on-a-chip technology seems to advance every day.  Recently, University of Rochester
Medical Center researchers reported on their nanosensor approach which employs [MORE]

Nanopore Sequencing

DNA sequencing typically requires restriction enzymes to chop up segments and then fluorescent dye labeling so the reader can detect [MORE]

Cancer Breathalyzer

Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have devised a breathalyzer that relies on gold nanoparticles to capture [MORE]

Rapid TB Test

Tuberculosis sufferers account for some two billion people worldwide. The disease’s spread is a public health concern of the highest [MORE]

Nanotube X-ray Machine

“Xintek,” an imaging company in Research Triangle Park, NC, will be testing this summer a new device that uses an [MORE]