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Super-sizing a cancer drug minimizes side effects
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 11:00 PM - 3 days ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
One of the first chemotherapy drugs given to patients diagnosed with cancer — especially lung, ovarian or breast cancer — is cisplatin, a platinum-containing compound that gums up ... (Read More)
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A new use for gold
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 11:00 PM - 1 month, 2 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Gold nanoparticles — tiny spheres of gold just a few billionths of a meter in diameter — have become useful tools in modern medicine. They’ve been incorporated into miniature ... (Read More)
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Obama intends to nominate Suresh as next NSF director
Thursday, June 03, 2010 - 04:00 PM - 1 month, 3 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he intends to nominate Subra Suresh, dean of the MIT School of Engineering, to serve as the next director of the National Science Foundation. ... (Read More)
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Liquid-solid interactions, as never before seen
Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 11:00 PM - 3 months ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Wettability — the degree to which a liquid either spreads out over a surface or forms into droplets — is crucial to a wide variety of processes. It influences, for example, how easily ... (Read More)
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A manufacturing renaissance for America?
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 03:15 PM - 4 months ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Over the last few decades, the sector of the U.S. economy devoted to manufacturing has lost ground to the services sector. The number of U.S. manufacturing jobs has declined from nearly 20 million ... (Read More)
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Pushing droplets around
Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 11:00 PM - 4 months ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Controlling the way liquids spread across a surface is important for a wide variety of technologies, including DNA microarrays for medical research, inkjet printers and digital lab-on-a-chip ... (Read More)
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Self-assembling computer chips
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 11:00 PM - 4 months, 2 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
The features on computer chips are getting so small that soon the process used to make them, which has hardly changed in the last 50 years, won’t work anymore. One of the alternatives that ... (Read More)
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Zooming in on cells
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 11:00 PM - 4 months, 2 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that kill bacteria by ... (Read More)
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In the World: Nanotech on the farm
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 10:00 PM - 4 months, 3 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Cassava is a tropical root vegetable and staple crop for millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. However, it’s tricky to handle: Once the root is removed from the ground, it spoils within ... (Read More)
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Listening in on single cells
Sunday, March 07, 2010 - 10:00 PM - 4 months, 3 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
MIT researchers have built the first sensor array that can detect single molecules emitted by a living cell. Their sensor targets hydrogen peroxide and could help scientists learn more about that ... (Read More)
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Iron-plated snail could inspire new armor
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 11:00 PM - 6 months ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Tiny snails sitting on the ocean floor might seem defenseless against a large, determined predator such as a crab. But evolution has provided one species of sea snail with a unique iron-plated ... (Read More)
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New ‘nanoburrs’ could help fight heart disease
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 11:00 PM - 6 months, 1 week ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Building on their previous work delivering cancer drugs with nanoparticles, MIT and Harvard researchers have turned their attention to cardiovascular disease, designing new particles that can ... (Read More)
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Straining forward
Tuesday, January 05, 2010 - 11:00 PM - 6 months, 3 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Computers keep getting more powerful because silicon transistors keep getting smaller. But that miniaturization can’t continue much further without a change to the transistors’ design, ... (Read More)
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Deshpande Center's latest funding cycle supports goal of 'idea to impact'
Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 08:00 AM - 9 months, 2 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
In April 2009, the Deshpande Center issued its annual Institute-wide call for proposals for two levels of grant awards — Ignition and Innovation. The grants target projects focusing on ... (Read More)
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Fuel cells get a boost
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 11:00 PM - 9 months, 2 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Fuel cells, devices that can produce electricity from hydrogen or other fuels without burning them, are considered a promising new way of powering everything from homes and cars to portable ... (Read More)
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Harnessing nanopatterns
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 11:00 PM - 10 months, 1 week ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Research at MIT has uncovered new information about how nanoscale patterns on the surface of a material can produce significant changes in the way it interacts with liquids. The discovery could be ... (Read More)
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Small springs could provide big power
Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 04:22 AM - 10 months, 2 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
Mechanical engineer Carol Livermore and colleagues find that carbon nanotubes, used as springs, have potential to compete with batteries for energy storage.
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Two chips in one
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 05:58 AM - 10 months, 2 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.
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Using Nanotubes in Computer Chips
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 12:00 AM - 10 months, 3 weeks ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits.
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Using carbon nanotubes to detect nitric oxide
Friday, August 21, 2009 - 12:00 AM - 11 months, 1 week ago - Nanotech - MIT Nanotech
A new carbon nanotube sensor developed at MIT can reversibly detect nitric oxide, a gas that cells commonly use to communicate with each other. Monitoring nitric oxide levels, in real time, in ... (Read More)
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