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Five big ideas for nanotechnology
Nature medicine. April 2009.
UH creates nanoengineering minor
The University of Houston is adding a nanoengineering minor to its current programs within the Cullen College of Engineering.
GoodNanoGuide goes public
Rice-based ICON introduces open-source wiki on safe handling of nanomaterials
Nanotech rides funding gusher
When Richard Smalley's labs at Rice University began making a series of breakthroughs by designing and creating materials at the tiny nanoscale in the 1980s, Houston rose to international prominence in the emerging field of nanotechnology.
Rice’s James Tour wins Feynman Prize
Foresight Institute honors professor for nanotechnology breakthroughs
Halas wins prestigious nanotechnology research award
Rice University nanophotonics pioneer Naomi Halas has won one of nanotechnology's top academic honors, the Research Excellence Award from the University of Pennsylvania's Nano/Bio Interface Center (NBIC). Halas is being honored for her numerous contributions in the innovative synthesis of nanostructures. She will accept the award and give a keynote address at NBIC's NanoDay@Penn ceremonies Oct. 29 in Philadelphia.
Scientists create 99 percent pure nanorods
HOUSTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. chemists say they've discovered a technology that permits them to produce ultra-pure gold nanorods that are about 99 percent pure. "The content of high-aspect-ratio gold nanorods produced by today's best synthetic methods is only about 20 percent," said Rice University Assistant Professor Eugene Zubarev, who is leading the research.
Secret ingredient: nanoparticles aid bone growth
Nanotube-reinforced material produces denser bone tissue In the first study of its kind, bioengineers and bioscientists at Rice University and Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, have shown they can grow denser bone tissue by sprinkling stick-like nanoparticles throughout the porous material used to pattern the bone.
Researchers from UTMB detail findings in gene therapy
A new study by UTMB researchers published in Gene Therapy (”Composition of PLGA and PEI/DNA nanoparticles improves ultrasound-mediated gene delivery in solid tumors in vivo”) states: “We found that the combination of PLGA/PEI/DNA nanoparticles with ultrasonication substantially enhanced tumor cell transfection in vivo. The overexpression of beta-gal gene was evaluated histochemically and by Western blot analysis.” The study was conducted by Olga.V. Chumakova and colleagues of UTMB’s Center for Biomedical Engineering.
Nanoparticle-Induced Heating Boosts Antitumor Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy is a time-honored and effective component of modern cancer therapy, but its ultimate utility is limited by the fact that some cancer cells are resistant to ionizing radiation. Now, a research team led by Sunil Krishnan, M.D., of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, has found that pretreating tumors with gold nanoparticles and near-infrared radiation dramatically improves the response of tumors to radiation therapy.
House Science and Technology Committee Unanimously Reports National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act
The NanoBusiness Alliance is pleased to report that the House Science and Technology Committee yesterday unanimously reported H.R. 5940, the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act, which will update and expand the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN), who addressed the NanoBusiness 2008 conference in New York on Monday, recognized the NanoBusiness Alliance for its support of the bill during the Committee markup.
Sen. Hutchison Visits with NanoHealth Alliance COO
Prior to her March 18, 2008, State of the Senate speech to the Greater Houston Partnership, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, left, visited the Alliance for NanoHealth booth at the event, where she met Jason Sakamoto, Ph.D., right, chief operating officer of the Alliance for NanoHealth, which is housed in the Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building of The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases at the UT Health Science Center.
NanoBioMagnetics Announces Issuance of US Patent
Edmond, OK (March 18, 2008): Officials of NanoBioMagnetics, Inc., (NBMI) today announced the issuance of its first patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent, titled “Method and Apparatus for Improving Hearing,” is based on the use of magnetically responsive nanoparticles implanted in the organs of the middle ear to drive tissue vibrations in the amplification of sound.
Sen. Hutchison Votes to Support Texas Projects
Earmark ban Fails, Would have had Devastating Impact on Projects for Houston
Next generation of 'smart' drugs
Houston scientists find innovative ways to trick body's defenses, target tumors
Rice forms nano Carbon Center to replace Carbon Nanotechnology Lab
FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS Rice has formed a new academic research center, the nano Carbon Center, or nC2, within the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology to enhance the global visibility of Rice's carbon nanotechnology research and to foster Rice's growing carbon nanotechnology community.
Scientists aglow over drug for radiation poisoning
Important Announcement: Website Now Available for - "Nanotechnology Solutions for Long-term Implantable Devices" IRT Meeting; October 23 - 24, 2007 - Houston, TX
Dear Distinguished Speakers & Attendees of the “Nanotechnology Solutions for Long-term Implantable Devices” Integrated Research Team (IRT) meeting held on October 23 – 25, 2007:
Rice's West honored as one of Texas' best researchers
Bioengineer earns O'Donnell Award from Texas Academy: Rice University bioengineer Jennifer West has been recognized with one of the Lone Star State's highest scientific honors, the O'Donnell Award from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST).
New Federal Funding Expected for Houston's Alliance for NanoHealth
HOUSTON—(Jan. 2, 2008)—The Alliance for NanoHealth, a consortium made up of seven Houston-area research institutions, including The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, is slated to receive $2.2 million in new federal funding over the coming year.
"Trojan Horse" Delivers Drug-Loaded Nanoparticles Deep Into Tumors
One of the most difficult feats to accomplish with today's anticancer therapies is getting drug into the oxygen- and nutrient-deprived cores of solid tumors. These inaccessible regions may be the source of drug-resistant tumors that can recur years after a patient has completed therapy. One type of cell, however, seems to be able to penetrate the tumor mass, and in fact, these cells, known as macrophages, can account for up to 70 percent of the tumor mass in malignancies such as breast cancer. Unfortunately, these tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) promote rather than impede tumor progression and foster metastasis.
Biotech Aims High in the Lone Star State
If big is the word that best describes Texas, the same word would also describe its rapidly growing biotech sector, and nowhere in Texas is biotech bigger than in Houston. Texas is a leader in biomedical research spending, and Houston accounts for 67% of those research dollars. In 2003, Houston’s public life science companies had over $2.6 billion in market capitalization.
Cancer nanotechnology: small, but heading for the big time
With cancer at the forefront of therapeutic applications of nanotechnology, Dan Jones investigates progress in the field.
Radio Waves Fire Up Nanotubes Embedded in Tumors, Destroying Liver Cancer
Preclinical results reported by M. D. Anderson, Rice in the journal Cancer
US government delays nanotechnology safety measures
Want to buy a bag of carbon nanotubes—in quantities from a few grams to hundreds of kilograms (100 kilograms = approximately 220 pounds)? With a credit card and Internet access, you can. But is the U.S. government doing enough to ensure the safety of these materials and the hundreds of other nanotechnology commercial and consumer products currently on the market?
Rice expert calls for coordination in nanotechnology research
Kanzius sees success
Millcreek inventor's treatment kills cancer cells in rabbits
Copper nanoparticles harm zebrafish
(Nanowerk News) Here is a news story from Environmental Science & Technology that goes nicely with our today's Spotlight (First of a kind real-time study of nanosilver in fish embryos raises hopes and concerns)
New Technique Producing Small Things in Large Quantities
HOUSTON, September 4, 2007 – Although relatively new to the market, liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions soon may be obsolete, thanks to a new technique created by University of Houston professors.
Nanotech: The Next Big Thing is Right Now
UT-Houston Start-up Will Develop Nanostructured CT Contrast Agents
HOUSTON—(Sept. 11, 2007)—Marval Biosciences, Inc., a University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston portfolio start-up company, has obtained a worldwide license to intellectual property covering nanostructured computed tomography (CT) contrast agents which were co-developed by Ananth Annapragada, Ph.D., an associate professor at the University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Smart Insulin Nanostructures Pass Feasibility Test, UT Study Reports
HOUSTON—(Sept. 18, 2007)—Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston have announced pre-clinical test results in the September issue of the International Journal of Nanomedicine demonstrating the feasibility of a smart particle insulin release system that detects spikes in glucose or blood sugar levels and releases insulin to counteract them.
Scientists get first look at nanotubes inside living animals
Rice University scientists have captured the first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside a living organism. Using fruit flies, the researchers confirmed that a technique developed at Rice -- near-infrared fluorescent imaging -- was capable of detecting DNA-sized nanotubes inside living fruit flies.
Federal research plan to determine nanotech risks fails to deliver
Almost a year in the making, a federal plan to prioritize research on the potential environmental, health, and safety (EHS) impacts of nanoscale materials has so many failings that its begs the question as to whether the government's 13-agency nanotechnology research effort is able to deliver an effective risk research strategy, according to David Rejeski, head of the Wilson Center's Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.
Taxol® bristle ball: cancer-clogging drugs loaded onto nanospheres
Rice chemists have discovered a way to load dozens of molecules of the anticancer drug paclitaxel onto tiny gold spheres. The result is a ball many times smaller than a living cell that literally bristles with the drug.
Rice nanotechnologist Tour among finalists for Feynman Prize
James Tour, the Chao Professor of Chemistry, is a finalist for this year's Foresight Nanotech Institute's Feynman Prizes.
Houston Technology Center to assist Mexican, Latin American nano companies
New cancer weapon: nuclear nanocapsules
Rice University chemists have found a way to package some of nature's most powerful radioactive particles inside DNA-sized tubes of pure carbon -- a method they hope to use to target tiny tumors and even lone leukemia cells.
NanoEthics: The Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology
Think of the smallest thing you can imagine: the thin edge of a piece of paper, the width of a human hair, or, if you've ever used a microscope, the diameter of a red blood cell. A new area of scientific research deals with understanding and controlling materials thousands of times smaller than these things. It is called nanotechnology.
Nanofibers conduct electricity, repel dirt
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 2 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created plastic nanofibers that they say might lead to diverse technologies such as self-cleaning surfaces and transparent electronics.
Senate Committee Approves $1 Million for the Alliance for NanoHealth
WASHINGTON – Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the committee has approved the Fiscal Year 2008 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill, which includes $1 million Sen. Hutchison secured for the Alliance for NanoHealth. The bill will now be considered and voted on by the full Senate.
Nanotube flickering reveals single-molecule rendezvous
In the quantum world, photons and electrons dance, bump and carry out transactions that govern everything we see in the world around us. In this week's issue of Science, French and U.S. scientists describe a new technique in nanotechnology that allowed them to zoom in -- way in -- and observe those quantum transactions on a single DNA-sized carbon molecule called a nanotube.
Nano Summit 2007 nanotechnology conference in Texas
(Nanowerk News) Dr. Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang, an expert in nanotechnology and inventor of the world’s first nanogenerator, will be the keynote speaker at Nano Summit 2007, which will be hosted by Texas A&M University’s Dwight Look College of Engineering.
First nanomedicine advanced training program commences
The European Science Foundation (ESF)'s 'Forward Look in Nanomedicine' conference (chaired by Professor Ruth Duncan of Cardiff University) identified a need for truly interdisciplinary Pan-European training in order to facilitate the rapid and safe development of novel nanotechnology-based tools having potential to improve the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Nano is now
Risk assessment left in the dust as countless products using nanomaterials reach the shelves.
Nature’s Playing Field: Nanotechnology and Medicine (NISE "Small Talk" Podcast)
It’s hard to imagine building things as small as a cell, but now we can make things even smaller than that – as small as viruses or even DNA. This month, hear about nanotechnology’s fortuitous interface with the tiny stuff of biology. Research in this area has dramatic implications for the future of medicine. It could lead to artificially engineered tissues, more effective drug delivery, and new kinds of health monitoring devices.
Study: Nanotubes precisely deliver drugs
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created nanotubes that can hold proteins or drugs, delivering the agents in a controlled manner precisely where needed in the body.
Health care of future? It's going to get personal
Just in the past 30 years, biomedical innovations have helped to lengthen life expectancy in the United States by four years. They have also materially enhanced quality of life for tens of millions of patients, enabling them to continue fruitful, productive lives.
Breakthrough Technique Yields Carbon Nanotubes Visible To The Naked Eye
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.
New quantum dots make cheaper solar panels
HOUSTON, May 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say a new method of producing molecular specks of semiconductors called quantum dots may result in better, cheaper solar energy.
Nanotechnology in Space
Nanotechnology may hold the key to making spaceflight more practical. Advancements in materials to make lightweight solar sails and the cable for the space elevator could significantly cut the cost of reaching orbit and traveling in space, as well as dramatically reducing the amount of rocket fuel used. Also new materials, along with nanosensors and nanorobots could improve the performance of spaceships, spacesuits and equipment used to explore planets and moons, making a big difference on the ‘final frontier.'
Vroom! Nanocars and Nanofactories (NISE "Small Talk" Podcast)
In this edition of SmallTalk, we hear from the man who builds the world’s smallest vehicles. He calls them “nanocars.” Dr. Jim Tour, a chemist at Rice University, tells us about his nanocars and how he thinks they might lead to nano-sized factories. We’ll also hear from University of Florida graduate student Diane Hickey, who will tell us some of the interesting reactions she’s run into when explaining nanotechnology. And we’ll play our Nano News or Nano Nonsense quiz!
University of Cincinnati Shatter World Records with Length of Carbon Nanotube Arrays
UC engineering researchers have developed a novel composite catalyst and optimal synthesis conditions for oriented growth of multi-wall CNT arrays. And right now they lead the world in synthesis of extremely long aligned carbon nanotube arrays.
UT-Houston’s Casscells Now on Duty as Assistant Secretary of Defense
HOUSTON – (April 17, 2007)—After an informal swearing-in without family or guests yesterday, S. Ward Casscells III, M.D., has assumed his new duties as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. In this position, Casscells will be responsible for overall leadership of the Military Health System, serve as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for all DoD health policies and programs and oversee all DoD health resources.
Bucky's brother: the boron buckyball makes its debut
A new study by Rice University scientists predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms.
Researchers make first direct electric link between nerve cells and light-sensitive nanoparticle films
GALVESTON, Texas - The world’s first direct electrical link between nerve cells and photovoltaic nanoparticle films has been achieved by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University of Michigan. The development opens the door to applying the unique properties of nanoparticles to a wide variety of light-stimulated nerve-signaling devices - including the possible development of a nanoparticle-based artificial retina.
PROBE TO DETECT SPREAD OF BREAST CANCER CO-DEVELOPED BY UH SCIENTIST
Device to Locate Magnetic Nanoparticles in Lymph Nodes HOUSTON, March 5, 2007 – High-temperature superconductors hold the key to a handheld tool for surgeons that promises to be more accurate, cost-effective and safer than existing methods for staging and treating various cancers, including breast cancer.
Study finds consumers neutral on risks, benefits of nanotechnology products
The largest and most comprehensive survey of public perceptions of nanotechnology products finds that U.S. consumers are willing to use specific nano-containing products — even if there are health and safety risks — when the potential benefits are high. The study also finds that U.S. consumers rate nanotechnology as less risky than everyday technologies, like herbicides, chemical disinfectants, handguns and food preservatives.
Gold nanorods assemble into rings
Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny building blocks known as gold nanorods spontaneously assemble themselves into ring-like superstructures.
The future of nanotechnology - A Rice Q&A with the NSF's Mike Roco
Mihail Roco, the National Science Foundation's senior advisor for nanotechnology and key architect of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, visited Rice's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) this spring for a three-day conference on nanotechnology-enabled water treatment. During his visit, Roco discussed the conference, CBEN and the future of U.S. nanotechnology with Rice News' Science Editor Jade Boyd.
Nanotechnology turns heat on tumors in mice
An article on using mice in the fight against breast cancer mentions that researchers at Rice have used gold nanoshells, designed to respond to specific wavelengths of light, to deliver heat to tumors when exposed to near-infrared light. San Luis Obispo (CA)
Casscells Nominated for Assistant Secretary of Defense
President George W. Bush sent to the Senate Feb. 26 his official nomination of S. Ward Casscells III, M.D., vice president for biotechnology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs).
Nanotechnology Research is Making a Difference Now
Nanotechnology research in Houston continues to build and one leader in the field wants people to understand this is not a technology for the future ... it is making a difference now. Houston Public Radio's Capella Tucker reports.
Dr. Casscells receives top telemedicine honor
S. Ward Casscells, M.D., the John Edward Tyson Distinguished Professor of Medicine and vice president for Biotechnology at the UT Health Science Center has received the 2004 Gen. Maxwell Thurman Award for his work in the use of advanced technologies to improve emergency medical care.
Nanomedicine: Solving problems at the smallest level
Wah Chiu, PhD, minces no words. He is a problem solver. His approach to scientific discovery is more like that of a hurdler, who overcomes a series of barriers, than the traditional biologist whose research is driven by hypothesis.
Nanotech pioneer, Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley dead at 62
The death of Richard E. Smalley, known to adoring colleagues and students as Rick, marks the passing of a scientific giant whose gift of nanotechnology will profoundly change the world for the better.
Alliance for NanoHealth Appoints New President
Dr. Mauro Ferrari has been named as the new President for the Alliance for NanoHealth
     
 
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