Nanotechnology

From the Lab, a New Weapon Against Cholesterol
Boston Globe, The | 5 hours 48 minutes ago
The particles that ferry cholesterol through the bloodstream are popularly known as ?bad? or ?good?: bad if they deposit cholesterol on vessel walls, potentially clogging them; good if they carry the cholesterol on to the liver for excretion.

New weapon against cholesterol
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 13 hours 56 minutes ago
The particles that ferry cholesterol through the bloodstream are known as "bad" or "good": bad if they deposit cholesterol on vessel walls, potentially clogging them; good if they carry the cholesterol on to the liver for excretion.

Rice grown with gold debuts
Asia News Network | 1 day 17 hours 50 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) | 1 day 23 hours 41 minutes ago
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest of all cancers

Chemist named director of Lawrence Berkeley lab
San Francisco Chronicle | 2 days 55 minutes ago
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When calves grow too large in the womb
innovations-report | 2 days 2 hours 49 minutes ago
Scientists in Dummerstorf discover candidate gene for fetal growth in mammals

Researchers Create 'Fly Paper' to Capture Circulating Cancer Cells
innovations-report | 2 days 4 hours 49 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 | 2 days 22 hours 28 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 | 3 days 8 hours 42 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 | 3 days 19 hours 30 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! | 3 days 21 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. 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 | 3 days 23 hours 19 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! | 4 days 1 hour 2 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.