Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A simple scheme of an illusion medium layer that transforms the stereoscopic image of an object (a golden apple) into that of the illusion (two green apples). (a) The golden apple (the actual object) enclosed with the illusion medium layer in the physical space. (b) Two …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A University of Alberta mechanical engineering professor has developed a new model that could revolutionize the design of hand-held devices that provide reliable, nearly instant medical or environmental tests. The model Mitra and Waghmare have developed takes both capillary action and electroosmosis into account and represents …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Physicists of Saarland University have developed a technology that could accelerate scanning probe microscopes by a factor of 1000. A scanning probe microscope works like a record player. There, a needle follows the record track, mapping the fine structure of the track. The microscope uses a …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Animal genetics firm MetaMorphix, Inc (MMI) and Stirius, Inc announced last week their jointly formed AquaAnimal Health, Inc to develop aquaculture technologies to augment output and advance disease resistance in farmed marine animals like finfish and crustaceans. AquaAnimal Health will use MMI’s Myostatin technology to maintain …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software If research results continue to be repeated and are turned into clinical trials, the drug Rapamycin already approved for some uses could be marshaled — sooner than we expect — to prevent Alzheimer’s disease in humans and improve health to the end of life. A few …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software 1. The researchers used a specially engineered virus to deliver extra copies of the gene for Nerve growth factor (NGF) into the hearts of mice. Thirty days after having a heart attack, 80 per cent of the mice that received this treatment were still alive, compared …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software A novel stem cell therapy that arms the immune system with an intrinsic defence against HIV could be a powerful strategy to tackle the disease. In the absence of an effective vaccine, daily administration of anti-retroviral drugs is the most effective treatment for HIV. However, low …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software There is a two part interview with Philip Moriarty at 10minus9 blog I work in a variety of fields in nanoscience including self-assembly and pattern formation, fullerenes, synchrotron-based spectroscopy, and charge transport in nanoparticle assemblies, but my primary project at the moment focuses on an area …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software An example of four seamed CNT panels. Note: the people are for scale only. Image: Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Today, Nanocomp Technology sheets of carbon nanotubes are fabricated in large closed systems capable of producing panels that are 52 inches wide by about 8 feet long. Technology …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found* that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate for creating large-area electronics, such as solar cells and displays that can be sprayed onto a surface as easily as paint. While …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Photograph of NIST racetrack ion trap under development as possible hardware for a future quantum computer. The 150 zones for storing, transporting and probing ions (electrically charged atoms) are located in the center ring structure and the six channels radiating out from its edges Credit: J. …