All Articles Tagged As: quantum dots

A new material could act as a nanofridge for microchips (10/9/2008)

New material could be used to manufacture smaller and faster computers ...> Full Article

Researchers Develop Nano-Sized 'Cargo Ships' to Target and Destroy Tumors (9/14/2008)

Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body’s immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected. ...> Full Article

Gene silencer and quantum dots reduce protein production to a whisper (6/24/2008)

Researchers have succeeded in using nanotechnology known as quantum dots to silence genes. Their technique is 10 to 20 times more effective than existing methods for injecting the gene-silencing tools, known as siRNA, into cells. ...> Full Article

Research Measures Movement of Nanomaterials in Simple Model Food Chain (6/2/2008)

New research shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount transferred was relatively low and there was no evidence of the nanomaterials concentrating in the higher level organisms ...> Full Article

Scientists discover new method of observing interactions in nanoscale systems (1/18/2008)

Scientists have used new optical technologies to observe interactions in nanoscale systems that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle usually would prohibit, according to a study published Jan. 17 in the journal Nature. ...> Full Article