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Nanotechnology bulks up artificial muscles
18.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, US, and Pusan National University in Korea have made two types of artificial muscle based on nanotechnology. The muscles convert chemical energy to mechanical energy and could have applications in robotics.
Algorithm works out nanoparticle structure
18.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Since nanoparticles don't have long-range crystalline order, it's hard to use conventional crystallographic methods to look at their structure. But now researchers at Michigan State University, US, have come up with an algorithm that enables them to determine the three-dimensional structure of a nanoparticle from one-dimensional X-ray or neutron...
Bird Flu Vaccine Only Works at Highest Dose: Study
18.4.2006 | Press monitoring
An experimental vaccine against H5N1 bird flu only appears to work at the very highest doses, meaning it will be harder than feared to protect the population against a pandemic, researchers.
Nanotechnology May Repair Damaged Brains
14.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Rodents blinded by brain damage had their vision partially restored within weeks after being treated with nanotechnology developed by bioengineers and neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
First-Ever New Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory Accessible to Public
14.4.2006 | Press monitoring
The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars today launched The Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory. This is the first and only publicly accessible online inventory of nanotechnology consumer products.
Nanotechnology is Addressing Unmet Needs in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Including the Reformulation of Drugs to Improve Their Bioavailability or Toxicity Profiles
13.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Nanotechnology touches upon many aspects of medicine, including drug delivery, diagnostic imaging, clinical diagnostics, nanomedicines, and the use of nanomaterials in medical devices.
Internship at KoWi in Brussels
11.4.2006 | Press monitoring
The European liaison office of the German research organisations (KoWi) invites graduates of all disciplines to apply for an internship at our office in Brussels. The trainee programme provides an opportunity for young researchers to get insights into European and international scientific collaboration, and politics of European R&D respectively....
Gains in grain: Better rice growth - through science
11.4.2006 | Press monitoring
EAST LANSING - Tao Sang and his colleagues have spent hundreds of hours shaking rice plants. Shaking them, that is, in the name of science.
Design of nanosensors based on optic fibre
10.4.2006 | Press monitoring
A telecommunications engineer from Pamplona, Ignacio del Villar Fernández, has developed two simulation tools for designing nanosensors based on optic fibres. For some structures analysed the sensitivity of the devices have been improved by up to a factor of ten. The results and conclusions of this research are outlined in his PhD thesis,...
