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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG><FONT size=4>Nanogirl News</FONT></STRONG>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>Issue May 19, 2007</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanotechnology is showing promise in treating
spinal cord injuries and could conceivably reverse paralysis, according to a
report on the future of the emerging technology in medicine. The report,
released at a Washington forum this week, said nanotechnology -- or the use of
materials on the scale of atoms and molecules -- may also help cure other
ailments believed to be intractable by repairing damaged organs or tissue. This
suggests damage from heart attacks or strokes, bone or tooth loss or ailments
such as diabetes and Parkinson's disease could be treated with nanotechnology,
researchers said. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Yahoo News 4.27.07)<BR><A
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070427/ts_alt_afp/ushealthmedicinenanotechnology_070427074643">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070427/ts_alt_afp/ushealthmedicinenanotechnology_070427074643</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>100% Biodegradable NANOIL Ready For Automobiles.
Nano Chemical Systems Holdings, Inc., announced recently their latest entry into
the multi-billion dollar performance chemical category, NANOIL, a
"nano-enhanced" GREEN motor oil. Unlike today's fossil and synthetic oils,
NANOIL is non-toxic and bio-degradable, thus eliminating the current disposal
issues with present commercially available lubricants. Nanochem will produce
NANOIL utilizing its nano-technology patent applications and inventions that
directly address bio-fuel production for a nano-enhanced line of "green"
bio-lubricants. Initial results indicate that these bio-lubricants can perform
as well as today's fossil and synthetic oils. (Chemical Online 4.27.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.chemicalonline.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=8a929e6c-ee2d-4523-9616-f1089c78c138&atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a&VNETCOOKIE=NO">http://www.chemicalonline.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=8a929e6c-ee2d-4523-9616-f1089c78c138&atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a&VNETCOOKIE=NO</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NIST Nano Center Accepting Proposals. Looking for a
state-of-the-art place to study nanotechnology-related products? If yes, then
the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) may be able to help. (Industry Week 5.15.07) <A
href="http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=14196">http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=14196</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Finding by Rice University chemists could aid
development of new nanodevices. Gold nanorods assemble themselves into rings.
Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny building blocks known as gold
nanorods spontaneously assemble themselves into ring-like superstructures. This
finding, which will be published as the inside cover article of the March 19
international edition of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, could
potentially lead to the development of novel nanodevices like highly sensitive
optical sensors, superlenses, and even invisible objects for use in the
military. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Rice University 3.9.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=9358&SnID=415793553">http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=9358&SnID=415793553</A>></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Engines of Creation 2.0: The Coming Era of
Nanotechnology – Updated and Expanded By K. Eric Drexler (father of
nanotechnology) is available exclusively from WOWIO at <A
href="http://www.wowio.com">www.wowio.com</A> and is free of charge to
registered users. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Plenty of room for MRIs at a nano scale... a
research team now reports. Combining an MRI with the precision of atomic-force
microscopes, a team led by Dan Rugar of the IBM Research Division in San Jose,
Calif., unveiled MRI images 60,000 times smaller than anything imaged by MRI
previously, down to 90 nanometer resolution — about 10 times bigger than your
typical molecule and right in the range of the integrated circuits doing all the
calculations behind your computer screen. The result, the team writes in the
current Nature Nanotechnology journal, "demonstrates the feasibility of pushing
MRI into the nanoscale regime." (USA Today 5.1.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2007-04-29-nano-mri_N.htm?csp=34">http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2007-04-29-nano-mri_N.htm?csp=34</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Iowa State scientists demonstrate first use of
nanotechnology to enter plant cells. A team of Iowa State University plant
scientists and materials chemists have successfully used nanotechnology to
penetrate plant cell walls and simultaneously deliver a gene and a chemical that
triggers its expression with controlled precision. Their breakthrough brings
nanotechnology to plant biology and agricultural biotechnology, creating a
powerful new tool for targeted delivery into plant cells. (Iowa State University
5.16.07) <A
href="http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2007/may/nanotech.shtml">http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2007/may/nanotech.shtml</A>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Super small nanoelectrodes can probe microscale
environments. Investigating the composition and behavior of microscale
environments, including those within living cells, could become easier and more
precise with nanoelectrodes being developed at the University of Illinois. “The
individual nanotube-based probes can be used for electrochemical and biochemical
sensing,” said Min-Feng Yu, a U. of I. professor of mechanical science and
engineering, and a researcher at the university’s Beckman Institute. “The
position of the nanoelectrodes can be controlled very accurately.”<BR>(U of Ill
at Urbana-Champaign 3.9.07) <A
href="http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/0309nanoelectrodes.html">http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/0309nanoelectrodes.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>An Australian biotechnology firm said on Thursday
it had developed a means of delivering anti-cancer drugs directly to cancer
cells, which aims to avoid the debilitating toxicity associated with
chemotherapy. The method uses nanotechnology, which involves molecules far
smaller than a human cell. Direct targeting of chemotherapy drugs would allow
dosages thousands of times lower than that in conventional chemotherapy and be
more easily tolerated by patients, said the firm. Writing in the May issue of
U.S.-based Cancer Cell journal, the biotech firm EnGeneIC said it had developed
nano-cells containing chemotherapy drugs. (Yahoo 5.10.07)<BR><A
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070510/hl_nm/cancer_australia_dc_1">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070510/hl_nm/cancer_australia_dc_1</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>New JILA apparatus measures fast nanoscale motions.
A new nanoscale apparatus developed at JILA—a tiny gold beam whose 40 million
vibrations per second are measured by hopping electrons—offers the potential for
a 500-fold increase in the speed of scanning tunneling microscopes (STM),
perhaps paving the way for scientists to watch atoms vibrate in high definition
in real time. The new device measures the wiggling of the beam, or, more
precisely, the space between it and an electrically conducting point just a
single atom wide, based on the speed of electrons “tunneling” across the gap.
The work is the first use of an “atomic point contact,” the business end of an
STM, to sense a nanomechanical device oscillating at its “resonant” frequency,
where it naturally vibrates like a tuning fork. (EurekAlert 3.16.07) <A
href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/nios-nja031607.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/nios-nja031607.php</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A new nano-insulin delivery pump for worry-free
treatment for diabetics...In what may be a sizeable breakthrough in medical
technology (and quite a relief for diabetics), medical device company Debiotech
and Switzerland-based STMicroelectronics have entered into a strategic
cooperation agreement to manufacture and deliver the award-winning miniaturised
insulin-delivery pump. (Business Standard 5.1.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=282949&leftnm=8&subLeft=0&chkFlg">http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=282949&leftnm=8&subLeft=0&chkFlg</A>=</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Top tiny creations. A recent story about
'microscopic alphabet soup' created at UCLA got us thinking about all the quirky
ways researchers have chosen to demonstrate new micro, nano-scale technology.
(New Scientist Technology Blog 3.22.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/03/top-tiny-creations.html?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=nano">http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/03/top-tiny-creations.html?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=nano</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paralyzed Mice Walk Again. Scientists Use
Nanotechnology to Mend Broken Spinal Cords. Samuel Stupp has a bunch of mice
that used to drag their hind legs behind them when they crawled around his
Illinois lab, but they have miraculously regained at least partial use of their
rear legs. Astonishingly, their severed spinal cords have been repaired, at
least partly, without surgery or drugs. All it took was a simple injection of a
liquid containing tiny molecular structures developed by Stupp and his
colleagues at Northwestern University. Six weeks later, the mice were able to
walk again. They don't have their former agility, but their injuries should have
left them paralyzed for life... Stupp's team concentrates on combining the
incredibly small world of nanotechnology with biology, creating molecules that
self-assemble into large molecular structures that can literally "hug" around
cells in the human body. (ABC News 5.1.07)<BR><A
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3102679&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3102679&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A Single-Photon Server with Just One Atom.
Physicists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have succeeded in turning a
Rubidium atom into a single-photon server. The high quality of the single
photons and their ready availability are important for future quantum
information processing experiments with single photons. In the relatively new
field of quantum information processing the goal is to make use of quantum
mechanics to compute certain tasks much more efficiently than with a classical
computer. (Max Planck Society 3.12.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2007/pressRelease200703091/index.html">http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2007/pressRelease200703091/index.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Magnetic tweezers unravel cellular mechanics. By
injecting tiny magnetic beads into a living cell and manipulating them with a
magnetic ‘tweezer’, scientists of the University of Twente, The Netherlands,
succeed in getting to know more about the mechanics of the cell nucleus.
(physorg 5.14.07) <A
href="http://www.physorg.com/news98378757.html">http://www.physorg.com/news98378757.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Student Creates Garment With Bacteria-trapping
Nanofibers. Fashion designers and fiber scientists at Cornell have taken
"functional clothing" to a whole new level. They have designed a garment that
can prevent colds and flu and never needs washing, and another that destroys
harmful gases and protects the wearer from smog and air pollution. The two-toned
gold dress and metallic denim jacket, featured at the April 21 Cornell Design
League fashion show, contain cotton fabrics coated with nanoparticles that give
them functional qualities never before seen in the fashion world. (Science Daily
5.7.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070506091754.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070506091754.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Inexpensive 'nanoglue' can bond nearly anything
together. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new
method to bond materials that don’t normally stick together. The team’s
adhesive, which is based on self-assembling nanoscale chains, could impact
everything from next-generation computer chip manufacturing to energy
production. Less than a nanometer – or one billionth of a meter – thick, the
nanoglue is inexpensive to make and can withstand temperatures far higher than
what was previously envisioned. In fact, the adhesive’s molecular bonds
strengthen when exposed to heat. (EurekAlert 4.16.07) <A
href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/rpi-ic051507.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/rpi-ic051507.php</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Demand for nanotech-based medicine grows. U.S.
demand for nanotechnology medical products will increase over 17 percent per
year to $53 billion in 2011, says The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based
industry research firm. Afterwards, the increasing flow of new nanomedicines,
nanodiagnostics, and nanotech-based medical supplies and devices into the US
market will boost demand to more than $110 billion in 2016. The firm reports
these and other findings in its new study, Nanotechnology in Healthcare.
(SmallTimes 3.19.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ONART&C=Bio&ARTICLE_ID=287462&p=109">http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ONART&C=Bio&ARTICLE_ID=287462&p=109</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lighting the nanoworld with nanolamps. An
interdisciplinary team of researchers at Cornell University (CU) has built
'nanolamps.' These extremely small light bulbs are made of light-emitting
nanofibers about the size of a virus or the tiniest of bacteria. Using a
technique called electrospinning, the researchers spun the fibers from a
metallic element, the ruthenium, and a polymer. These nanofibers "are so small
that they are less than the wavelength of the light they emit." Apparently,
these nanofibers are easy to produce. But before they can be integrated into our
increasingly smaller electronic devices, there still is a need to know how long
these nanolamps can last. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(ZDnet 4.14.07) <A
href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=542">http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=542</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanoparticles 'safe for soil bugs'. Ronald Turco at
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and his colleagues have found that
fullerenes, nanoscale carbon spheres, do not harm microbes when released into
the soil. Their study is the first of its kind to focus on soil microbes, which
play a key role in recycling nutrients used by plants (Environmental Science
& Technology, DOI: 10.1021/es061953l).(NewScientist 5.5.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426025.800&feedId=nanotechnology_rss20">http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426025.800&feedId=nanotechnology_rss20</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanorockets - the ultimate baby boosters? Brian
Gilchrists. design for a rocket ship sounds like a bad joke. For a start,
its engine is about the size of a single bacterium. And for thrust it relies on
the equivalent of chucking microscopic beer cans out of the spacecraft's rear
window. Gilchrist, an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, is not joking though. He proposes to harness the latest nanotechnology to
create an engine that will make its way across the solar system by firing out
minute metal particles like so much nano-sized grapeshot. (New Scientist
3.24.07)<BR><A
href="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325961.500&feedId=fundamentals_rss20">http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325961.500&feedId=fundamentals_rss20</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Growing Nerve Cells in 3-D Dramatically Affects
Gene Expression. Nerve cells grown in three-dimensional environments deploy
hundreds of different genes compared with cells grown in standard
two-dimensional petri dishes, according to a new Brown University study. The
research, spearheaded by bioengineer Diane Hoffman-Kim, adds to a growing body
of evidence that lab culture techniques dramatically affect the way these cells
behave. (Brown 5.15.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-156.html">http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-156.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The longest carbon nanotubes you've ever seen.
Using techniques that could revolutionize manufacturing for certain materials,
researchers have grown carbon nanotubes that are the longest in the world. While
still slightly less than 2 centimeters long, each nanotube is 900,000 times
longer than its diameter. The fibers--which have the potential to be longer,
stronger and better conductors of electricity than copper and many other
materials--could ultimately find use in smart fabrics, sensors and a host of
other applications. To grow the aligned bundles of tiny tubes, the researchers
combined advantages of chemical vapor deposition (CVD), a technique for creating
thin coatings that is especially common in the semiconductor industry, with a
novel substrate and catalyst onto which the carbon attaches. (EurkAlert
5.10.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/nsf-tlc051007.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/nsf-tlc051007.php</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanoscale pasta: Toward nanoscale electronics.
Pasta tastes like pasta – with or without a spiral. But when you jump to the
nanoscale, everything changes: carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like
nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic properties than
their non-spiraling cousins. Engineers at UC San Diego, and Clemson University
are studying these differences in the hopes of creating new kinds of components
for nanoscale electronics. (physorg 5.18.07)<BR><A
href="http://www.physorg.com/news98713032.html">http://www.physorg.com/news98713032.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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