Nanosys, Inc. today announced that it hosted US Representative Zoe Lofgren of the 16th California Congressional district, San Jose, for a tour of its nanotechnology plant.

Increasingly nanotech applications and products become integrated into all aspects of our daily lives.

Some of the world's most prestigious cosmetic houses have been accused by an environmental group of using Australian women as guinea pigs.

Scientists from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente and the FOM Foundation have succeeded in transferring magnetic information directly into a semiconductor.

Chemists and physicists have succeeded in getting custom-shaped microparticles to interact and self-assemble in a controlled way in a liquid crystal.

MoUs range across pharma, telecom, IT and homeland security. Members of industry chamber Confederation of Indian Industry have signed eight memoranda of understandings with American companies.

Ontario is providing $3.8 million to a company that's using nanotechnology to build a better pesticide for farmers.

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.