While the industrial biotechnology sector is rushing full steam ahead to develop and commercialize new nanotechnology products, scientists working in areas of human and ecological toxicity are scrambling to keep up.

Gold nanoparticles and laser beams will be researched as a new non-invasive treatment for cancer at a Technion-Israel Institute for Technology lab financed with a 2 million from the European Union and a large previous donation from philanthropist Lorry Lokey of San Francisco.

November 17, 2009-- Cornell University's Center for Advanced Computing , in partnership with Purdue University, has received a National Science Foundation award to deploy The MathWorks MATLAB on the TeraGrid as an experimental computing resource.

It's a fact of life that nanoparticles are everywhere: from sunscreen to underwear to performance wear - they are an invisible part of everyday life.

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced that it has successfully inkjet printed its nanoparticle copper inks onto commercially available paper substrates forming highly conductive patterns for electronic circuits.

Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.

Scanning electron micrograph of two thin, flat rings of silicon nitride, each 190 nanometers thick and mounted a millionth of a meter apart.

Abstract PMID: 18510317 Assembly of gold nanoparticles into designer architectures with reliablity is important for nanophotonics and nanoelectronics applications.

A team led by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researchers on the cutting edge of nanotechnology has found a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream that could dramatically improve earlier cancer diagnosis and prevent deadly metastasis.

Nov 15, 2009 - Biomimetics is the new science of imitating nature - but why not save a step, and just copy the design directly? That's what Aussie and British researchers did.