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Overcoming Drug Resistance—Nanoparticles Trigger Built-In Cell-Death Signal
One of the most vexing problems in treating cancer is the propensity of tumors to develop resistance to a wide range of anticancer drugs. [ read more ]

Large-Scale Screening of Nanomaterial Toxicity and Activity
As researchers develop an ever-expanding toolkit of nanoparticles for use as drug and imaging agent delivery vehicles, there is a growing need to understand how a given nanoparticle’s physical and chemical properties affect biological activity and toxicity. [ read more ]

Nanoparticle Delivers Antisense Agent to Tumors, Boosts Drug Effect in Resistant Tumors
A multifunctional drug delivery system consisting of a lipid-based nanoparticle, a standard anticancer drug, and a short nucleic acid designed to augment the activity of that drug has demonstrated the ability to treat drug-resistant tumor cells. [ read more ]

Chemists Create Cancer-Detecting Nanoparticles
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be a doctor's best friend for detecting a tumor in the body without resorting to surgery. [ read more ]

Tumor Nanoparticles Trigger Pancreatic Cancer Cell Death
Using nanoparticles made from pieces of tumor cells, investigators from Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France, have developed a new type of anticancer agent that appears to stop tumor cell growth and proliferation. [ read more ]

Quantum Rods Probe Blood-Brain Barrier
One of the chief difficulties in treating brain tumors involves getting potential tumor-killing drugs across the blood-brain barrier and into the brain. [ read more ]

SOURCE: NanoNews-Now Digest

Stanford solar research receives $25 million grant
Stanford University June 11th, 2008 Saudi Arabia's new science and technology university has made another large grant to Stanford researchers, this time revolving around solar power. The $25 million grant from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, spans the next five years beginning this month and will fund a new center at Stanford, the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics.

'Nanoglassblowing' Seen as Boon to Study of Individual Molecules
NIST June 11th, 2008 While the results may not rival the artistry of glassblowers in Europe and Latin America, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have found beauty in a new fabrication technique called "nanoglassblowing" that creates nanoscale (billionth of a meter) fluidic devices used to isolate and study single molecules in solution—including individual DNA strands. The novel method is described in a paper posted online this week in the journal Nanotechnology.*

Study finds new properties in non-magnetic materials
Penn State June 12th, 2008 A team of Penn State researchers has shown for the first time that the entire class of non-magnetic materials, such as those used in some computer components, could have considerably more uses than scientists had thought. The findings are important because they reveal previously unknown information about the structure of these materials, expanding the number of properties and uses that they potentially could have. A material's properties, such as electrical conductivity and mechanical strength, are what determine its usefulness. The research will be published June 20 in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The Manhattan Project Is Underway
energytribune.com June 12th, 2008 According to New Energy Finance Ltd., a London-based research firm, in 2007 some $148.4 billion was invested globally in what it calls "clean energy technologies, companies, and projects." That's nearly a four-fold increase over 2004 levels. And the 2007 estimate may be too low, according to Mark Mills, a co-founder of Digital Power Capital, a private equity fund that invests in energy technologies, and the co-author of The Bottomless Well, a provocative book on energy. Further, Mills points to two critical differences from the 1970s, when energy price spikes hit the U.S. They are the huge amount of venture capital now available to energy entrepreneurs, and "the phenomenal new suite of technologies that are being brought to the market that can address the problem." Back in the '70s, there was little private capital available to entrepreneurs who were developing new energy technologies. Today there are several thousand firms providing venture capital or private equity. And they are providing funding to inventors who can tap a staggering array of new technologies, from nanotechnology to high-bandwidth wireless communications, as they work to come up with new energy solutions.

Detection instrument can sniff out airborne terrorist threats
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory June 12th, 2008 Security and law enforcement officials may some day have a new ally - a universal detection system that can monitor the air for virtually all of the major threat agents that could be used by terrorists.

SOURCE: NANOTECHWEB.ORG NEWSWIRE

Electrons start hopping across nanowires Tunnelling stops as molecular wires get longer

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34584

Nanofilm senses chlorine at room temperature Antimony-doped structure used in early warning prototype that operates at 25 degC

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34537

Nanoimprint lithography improves OLEDs

Technique could increase the light-emitting efficiency of organic LEDs by 40%

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34559

Microwave cooks up zinc oxide nanowires

Fast synthesis technique reduces growth time from hours to minutes

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34488

Nanostructures absorb light from all directions Result could be important for making optical devices

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34494

Purification of nanoparticles by hollow fiber diafiltration

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/whitepapers/34493

Needle Sensor Operation in non-contact AFM Mode

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/whitepapers/34204

Single pass Kelvin Probe Measurement Technique in Air with Dual-OC4

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/whitepapers/34202

Compensating for CPD in NC-AFM: AM-KPFM in UHV using Dual - OC4

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/whitepapers/34201

Spin valves investigated with BEMM – a case for Nanonis's programming interface

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/whitepapers/31356

Optimizing PLL feedback parameters: Nanonis perfect PLL

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/whitepapers/31355

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