Catch up on the latest news on nanotechnologies. Just a few weeks ago two newspapers, The Guardian in UK and El Mundo in Spain, launched different microsites where you can find the most recent discoveries and achievements made by nanotechnology researchers. Have a look! …

Thanks to a little serendipity, researchers at Rice University have created a tiny coaxial cable that is about a thousand times smaller than a human hair and has higher capacitance than previously reported microcapacitors.
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ScienceDaily (June 10, 2012) — Enabling bioengineers to design new molecular machines for nanotechnology applications is one of the possible outcomes of a study by University of Montreal researchers that was published in Nature Structural and ...…

... University of Basel have developed nanocontainers having the ability to release their vasodilator content exclusively to diseased areas (see paper in Nature Nanotechnology: "Shear-stress sensitive lenticular vesicles for targeted drug delivery").…

However, the new findings have raised concerns about possible risks posed to global health by airborne pollutants from nanotechnology products that are not handled appropriately. The new findings will have health and safety implications for the future ...…

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency hopes to develop intracellular platforms to fight diseases in warfighters. The research agency issued a solicitation on June 8 for help developing In Vivo Nanosensors for Therapeutics (IVN:Tx) that would ...…

New and emerging technologies (GM, synthetic biology and nanotechnology, for instance) offer the potential for a cleaner, healthier and better future. However, the risks from these technologies are not fully known. Will a future generation look back on ...…

The list likewise includes a therapy that uses nanotechnology to target the delivery of medicines to cancer cells, potentially overcoming some limitations of existing treatments, said the report. In a bid to address major types of cancer, ...…

The innovative NanoHigh program is preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers in our state's rapidly growing nanotechnology industry. This partnership between the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and the City School District ...…