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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><strong>The Nanogirl
News</strong></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><em>June 16, 2005</em></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Scientists unveil 'clay' robots that
will shape our world. TINY robots that can turn into any shape - from a
replica human to a banana to a mobile phone - are being developed by
scientists in the United States. The new science of claytronics, which
will use nanotechnology to create tiny robots called catoms, should
enable three-dimensional copies of people to be "faxed" around the
world for virtual meetings. A doctor could also consult with a patient
over the phone, even taking their pulse by holding the wrist of the
claytronic replica, reports New Scientist. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">(Scotsman 6/9/05) <a
href="http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=632012005">http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=632012005</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Nano World: Nano for stem-cell
research. Cutting-edge nanotechnology is beginning to help advance the
equally pioneering field of stem-cell research, with devices that can
precisely control stem cells and provide self-assembling biodegradable
scaffolds and magnetic tracking systems, experts told UPI's Nano World.
"Nanotechnology might show people once and for all that you really can
help regenerate organs with stem-cell biology and help people walk
again, help people after heart attacks, help people after stroke," said
John Kessler, a neurologist at Northwestern University in Evanston,
Ill. (World Peace Herald 6/13/05) <a
href="http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050613-112055-9237r">http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050613-112055-9237r</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Scientists Fret over nanotech
breakthrough. A breakthrough in nanotechnology has enabled doctors
accurately to measure the levels of crucial chemicals in living brain
cells in real time and at the level of a single cell. Scientists at
Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant
Biology claim to be the first successfully to apply genetic
nanotechnology using molecular sensors to view changes in brain
chemical levels. (Computing 5/31/05) <a
href="http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2137318/scientists-fret-nanotech-breakthrough">http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2137318/scientists-fret-nanotech-breakthrough</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Quantum dots prove to be a faster,
more sensitive method for detecting respiratory viral infections. In
what may be one of the first medical uses of nanotechnology, a chemist
and a doctor who specializes in infectious childhood diseases have
joined forces to create an early detection method for a respiratory
virus that is the most common cause of hospitalization among children
under five. (Exploration 6/9/05) <a
href="http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_quantum.htm">http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_quantum.htm</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">UCI scientists use nanotechnology to
create world’s fastest method for transmitting information in cell
phones and computers. UC Irvine scientists in The Henry Samueli School
of Engineering have demonstrated for the first time that carbon
nanotubes can route electrical signals on a chip faster than
traditional copper or aluminum wires, at speeds of up to 10 GHz. The
breakthrough could lead to faster and more efficient computers, and
improved wireless network and cellular phone systems, adding to the
growing enthusiasm about nanotechnology’s revolutionary potential. (UCI
6/9/05) <a href="http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1337">http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1337</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">MIT's Nanoprinter Could Mass-produce
Nano-devices. Just as the printing press revolutionized the creation of
reading matter, a "nano-printing" technique developed at MIT could
enable the mass production of nano-devices currently built one at a
time. The most immediate candidate for this innovation is the DNA
microarray, a nano-device used to diagnose and understand genetic
illnesses such as Alzheimer's, viral illnesses such as AIDS, and
certain types of cancer. The ability to mass produce these complex
devices would make DNA analysis as common and inexpensive as blood
testing, and thus greatly accelerate efforts to discover the origins of
disease. (Sciencedaily 6/9/05)<br>
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050608054226.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050608054226.htm</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Nanoparticles transport cancer-killing
drug into tumor cells to increase efficacy, lower drug toxicity in
mice. U-M scientists use folic acid as bait to get methotrexate inside
tumor cells. University of Michigan scientists have created the
nanotechnology equivalent of a Trojan horse to smuggle a powerful
chemotherapeutic drug inside tumor cells – increasing the drug's
cancer-killing activity and reducing its toxic side effects...“This is
the first study to demonstrate a nanoparticle-targeted drug actually
leaving the bloodstream, being concentrated in cancer cells, and having
a biological effect on the animal's tumor,” says James R. Baker Jr.,
M.D., the Ruth Dow Doan Professor of Biologic Nanotechnology at the
University of Michigan, who directed the study. (UMHS 6/15/05) <a
href="http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2005/nanoparticles.htm">http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2005/nanoparticles.htm</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Commissioner responds to children's
nano questions. EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik
answered questions from children on nanotechnology when he visited the
nanoTruck in Brussels on 15 June. A German initiative, the nanoTruck is
a mobile science theme park exhibiting some of the latest science and
technology at the nano dimension in a variety of disciplines. Inside
the truck are magnetic fluids, measuring instruments that make atoms
visible, and scratch-proof coatings for cars. The organizers encourage
visitors try out the exhibits themselves, making it an ideal place to
introduce the younger generation to the wonders of nanoscience and
nanotechnology. <br>
(Cordis 6/16/05) <a
href="http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=EN_RCN_ID:23992">http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=EN_RCN_ID:23992</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Good news about saliva or "spit". Dr.
Wong, who also leads UCLA's Dental Research Institute, described the
latest in saliva diagnostic research to attendees at the American
Dental Association's National Media Conference, held here today. "We
have developed highly specific, nanotechnology-based biosensors (ultra
tiny machines that read the simplest cell structure), which will permit
the detection of disease-bearing biomarkers in saliva," said Dr. Wong.
Scientists have long recognized that saliva contains the full
complement of proteins, hormones, antibodies and other molecular
substances frequently measured in standard blood tests to monitor
health and disease, he explained. (myDNA 6/9/05) <a
href="http://www.mydna.com/resources/news/200506/news_20050609_spit.html">http://www.mydna.com/resources/news/200506/news_20050609_spit.html</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">NCL to go into labs with ‘Golden
Triangle’ for cancer trials. EIGHT months after raising hopes with
their cutting edge ‘Golden Triangle’ technology for fighting cancer
sans chemotherapy, nanoscientists at the National Chemical Laboratory
(NCL) are gearing up for the technology’s first in-vitro tests. Murali
Sastry, head, Nanoscience Group at NCL, said the in-vitro (laboratory)
tests would be conducted on cancerous cells in a month’s time at the
Tata’s Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer
(ACTREC) in Navi Mumbai...The trials are being conducted to establish
the toxicity of the gold nano-particles. ‘‘While gold is inherently
non-toxic, we have to see exactly where the nano-sized triangles go
when introduced into the cancerous area. We have kept a two-year window
to see if we can get into clinical trials on humans.’’ </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">(Allheadline News 5/31/05) <a
href="http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=131718">http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=131718</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">World’s most precise “hard x-ray”
nanoprobe activated. Marking a major step forward in using x-rays to
study extremely small structures and phenomena, the world’s first “hard
x-ray” nanoprobe beamline was activated on March 15, 2005. The unique
nanoprobe is one of the featured instruments at the new Center for
Nanoscale Materials (CNM), a U.S. Department of Energy user research
facility located at Argonne National Laboratory, about 25 miles west of
Chicago. CNM researchers expect to soon be using the x-ray nanoprobe to
study individual atoms, molecules, and the unique physical interactions
that occur at the nanoscale, where features are measured in nanometers,
or billionths of a meter (a nanometer is 70,000 times smaller than the
width of a human hair). (Nanoapex 5/30/05)<br>
<a
href="http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5650">http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5650</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thin films of silicon nanoparticles
roll into flexible nanotubes. By depositing nanoparticles onto a
charged surface, researchers at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign have crafted nanotubes from silicon that are flexible
and nearly as soft as rubber. "Resembling miniature scrolls, the
nanotubes could prove useful as catalysts, guided laser cavities and
nanorobots," said Sahraoui Chaieb, a professor of mechanical and
industrial engineering at Illinois and a researcher at the Beckman
Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. (Eurekalert 6/14/05)<br>
<a
href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/uoia-tfo061405.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/uoia-tfo061405.php</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">China tops the world in nano-papers.
News from the 2005 China International Conference on Nanoscience and
Technology (China Nano 2005) held on June 9 says that by December 2004
China has had more than 800 companies engaged in trade in
nano-technology and about a hundred nano-technology research
institutes. More than ten projects such as for making Li cells, solar
cells, textiles and environment-friendly interior paints have been
commercialized. (People's Daily Online 6/10/05)<br>
<a href="http://english.people.com.cn/200506/10/eng20050610_189642.html">http://english.people.com.cn/200506/10/eng20050610_189642.html</a>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Nanotechnology's Environmental,
Health, and Safety Risks Can Be Addressed Responsibly Today.
Stakeholders ranging from corporations to start-ups to protest groups
are concerned about the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) risks
of nanoparticles -- the prospect that tiny, engineered particles of
matter might harm workers, consumers or the environment. While such EHS
risks do exist, they can be appropriately addressed today using
well-established risk management techniques, according to a new report
from Lux Research entitled "A Prudent Approach to Nanotech
Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks." (Yahoo 6/15/05) <a
href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050615/nyw071.html?.v=11">http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050615/nyw071.html?.v=11</a><br>
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When Nanopants Attack. On a chilly Chicago afternoon in early May,
environmental activists sauntered into the Eddie Bauer store on
Michigan Avenue, headed to the broad storefront windows opening out on
the Magnificent Mile. Activists hoped to lay bare growing allegations
of the toxic dangers of nanotechnology. The demonstrators bore the
message in slogans painted on their bodies, proclaiming "Eddie Bauer
hazard" and "Expose the truth about nanotech," among other things, in
light of the clothing company's embrace of nanotech in its recent line
of stain-resistant "nanopants." (Wired 6/16/05) <a
href="http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67626,00.html?tw=wn_12techhead">http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67626,00.html?tw=wn_12techhead</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Brush up on your nanotechnology. The
world's smallest brushes, with bristles more than a thousand times
finer than a human hair, have been created by researchers in the US.
The brushes can be used for sweeping up nano-dust, painting
microstructures and even cleaning up pollutants in water. The bristles'
secret is carbon nanotubes, tiny straw-like molecules just 30
billionths of a metre across. They are incredibly tough and yet
flexible enough that they will yield when pushed from the side. The
researchers behind the brushes were led from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, New York. Their work is reported in the journal
Nature Materials. (BBC 6/12/05) <br>
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4085214.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4085214.stm</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">'Emerging Sectors' maps new type of
summer camp. What will your kids tell classmates they did this summer?
Attend soccer camp? Swim at the pool? Study nanotechnology? Instructors
at Oakland Schools hope the response will be the latter as the school
system is modeling much of its summer enrichment programs after the
county's Emerging Sectors initiative. The curriculum received praise
from government officials and industry leaders, who say getting
technology training into youngsters' hands is essential in creating
tomorrow's high-skilled workforce. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">(mlive 6/16/05) <a
href="http://www.mlive.com/mbusinessreview/stories/index.ssf?/mbusinessreview/oak/stories/20050616_emerging.html">http://www.mlive.com/mbusinessreview/stories/index.ssf?/mbusinessreview/oak/stories/20050616_emerging.html</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Does 10% = Halfway? To "maximize the
potential and minimize the risks" of nanotechnology, DuPont CEO Chad
Holliday and Environmental Defense (ED) President Fred Krupp are
calling for "increased risk research, improved regulatory oversight,
proactive corporate management standards, and broad stakeholder
engagement." Given potential liability and market risks, industry,
universities, government and public interest groups should collaborate
to determine what testing is necessary for new nanoproducts. Businesses
then should conduct the needed testing before new products enter
commercial use. . . A collaborative effort could set interim standards
for nanotechnology around the world while regulations are under
development. (CRN blog 6/15/05) <a
href="http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2005/06/does_10_halfway.html">http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2005/06/does_10_halfway.html</a><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Gina "Nanogirl" Miller<br>
Nanotechnology Industries<br>
<a href="http://www.nanoindustries.com">http://www.nanoindustries.com</a><br>
Personal: <a href="http://www.nanogirl.com/index2.html">http://www.nanogirl.com/index2.html</a><br>
Foresight Senior Associate <a href="http://www.foresight.org">http://www.foresight.org</a><br>
Nanotechnology Advisor Extropy Institute <a
href="http://www.extropy.org">http://www.extropy.org</a><br>
3D/Animation <a href="http://www.nanogirl.com/museumfuture/index.htm">http://www.nanogirl.com/museumfuture/index.htm</a><br>
Email: <a href="mailto:nanogirl@halcyon.com">nanogirl@halcyon.com</a><br>
"Nanotechnology: Solutions for the future."<br>
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