Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Diagram of a NIST ion trap that incorporates an optical fiber to collect light emitted by the ions (electrically charged atoms). Individual electrodes used to trap an ion 30 to 50 micrometers above the surface are shown in different colors surrounding a 50-micrometer-wide hole where light …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arteriocyte’s Blood Pharming program is currently working to combine multiple state of the art technologies to produce fresh units of universal-donor (Type O, RH factor negative) packed red blood cells. The company’s proprietary NANEX (Nanofiber Based System) technology permits 250-fold expansion of hematopoietic stem cells that …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Chinese researchers have successfully built an electromagnetic absorbing device for microwave frequencies. The device, made of a thin cylinder comprising 60 concentric rings of metamaterials, is capable of absorbing microwave radiation, and has been compared to an astrophysical black hole (which, in space, soaks up matter …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software click on the roadmap image to enlarge FightAging has the Regenerative medicine roadmap and an article on the dawn of the age of tissue engineering The PDF roadmap for regenerative medicine is a document assembled by the PhD-laden Russian volunteers at the Science for Life Extension …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese construction firm, has proposed building tens of thousands of square kilometers of solar cells on the moon. The Japanese government space agency recently proposed a $2.2 billion project to build a robotically operated moonbase by 2020. Shimizu is a multi-billion corporation …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software EEtimes reports that a series of functional 25-stage ring oscillators has been made by a team of researchers from the IBM Watson Research Center using silicon nanowire transistors with diameters down to 2.6-nanometers. The use of silicon nanowire transistors is proposed to allow the continued scaling …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software UC Irvine scientists have created an eight-layer, early stage retina from human embryonic stem cells, the first three-dimensional tissue structure to be made from stem cells Journal of Neuroscience Methods – Three-dimensional early retinal progenitor 3D tissue constructs derived from human embryonic stem cells It also …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software UC Irvine scientists have created an eight-layer, early stage retina from human embryonic stem cells, the first three-dimensional tissue structure to be made from stem cells Journal of Neuroscience Methods – Three-dimensional early retinal progenitor 3D tissue constructs derived from human embryonic stem cells It also …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software For decades, the U.S. dollar has been the reserve currency of the world. With both the U.S. dollar and the Euro looking shaky, investors have been searching somewhere safe to put their money. Increasingly, they have been turning to gold. In Business Week Christopher Wood, chief …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. A team led by Stefan Heller of Stanford University set out to elucidate basic principles of how the inner ear detects sound. But they also created batches of cells that can potentially replace damaged ones in the ear. Their findings are published in the May …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A half sphere of polymer cubes built by researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Image: Javier Gomez Fernandez Researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are encapsulating living cells in cubes and arranging them into 3-D structures, just …