Nanotechnology

Rice grown with gold debuts
Asia News Network | 8 hours 28 minutes ago
If you want to feel a million dollars, you could do worse than eating rice.

New Creative Approaches to Pancreatic Cancer Improve Drug Delivery
Medscape (free registration) | 14 hours 19 minutes ago
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest of all cancers

Chemist named director of Lawrence Berkeley lab
San Francisco Chronicle | 15 hours 33 minutes ago
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When calves grow too large in the womb
innovations-report | 17 hours 27 minutes ago
Scientists in Dummerstorf discover candidate gene for fetal growth in mammals

Researchers Create 'Fly Paper' to Capture Circulating Cancer Cells
innovations-report | 19 hours 27 minutes ago
Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.

The Korea Herald : The Nation's No.1 English Newspaper
Korea Herald (Seoul), The | 1 day 13 hours 6 minutes ago
If you want to feel a million dollars, you could do worse than eating rice. SM Nanotech has developed rice with gold in it, which the company says will leave you feeling as fit as a king.

'Fly Paper' Created to Capture Circulating Cancer Cells
ScienceDaily | 1 day 23 hours 20 minutes ago
Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.

Cat Brain-Based Computer: Scientists Perform Cat-Scale Cortical Simulations and Map the Human Brain
ScienceDaily | 2 days 10 hours 8 minutes ago
IBM has announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain's low power and energy consumption and compact size.

UCLA researchers create 'fly paper' to capture circulating cancer cells
EurekAlert! | 2 days 11 hours 58 minutes ago
Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor. These cells, known as circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, can provide critical information for examining and diagnosing cancer metastasis, determining patient prognosis, and monitoring the effectiveness of therapies.

IBM aims to simulate brain's abilities with computer system
Electronic Business | 2 days 13 hours 57 minutes ago
An IBM Research-led cognitive computing team claims advances in large-scale cortical simulation and a new algorithm that synthesizes neurological data, two major milestones that indicate the feasibility of building a cognitive computing chip.

Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging
EurekAlert! | 2 days 15 hours 40 minutes ago
A joint research team, working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has discovered a method of using nanoparticles to illuminate the cellular interior to reveal the slow, complex processes taking place in a living cell.

Way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream discovered
News-Medical.Net | 2 days 16 hours 18 minutes ago
A team led by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers on the cutting edge of nanotechnology has found a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream that could dramatically improve earlier cancer diagnosis and prevent deadly metastasis.

Researchers identify new way to capture tumor cells in bloodstream; findings can improve early cancer diagnosis
News-Medical.Net | 2 days 16 hours 18 minutes ago
Jin-Woo Kim, a biomedical engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas, is part of a cutting-edge nanotechnology research group that has discovered a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream. The work could dramatically improve early cancer diagnosis and prevent deadly metastasis.