Nanomedicine's Promise Is Anything but Tiny
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Big changes are coming from the marriage of medicine and nanotechnology, the new branch of science that deals with things a few millionths of an inch in size.
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IBM has demonstrated a way to store data in a single atom, a technique that could someday be used in tiny processors.
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Big opportunities await patient investors in nanotech, cleantech, and robotics.
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Scientists have performed a delicate surgical operation on a single living cell, using a needle that is just a few millionths of a metre wide.
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Supporters say nanotechnology someday will allow doctors to hunt down cancers early, computers to shrink small enough to fit inside blood vessels, and soldiers to fight less deadly wars. These infinitesimally small devices are already in a variety of products, including power tennis rackets and wrinkle-free dress shirts.
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For a science that's about manipulating substances at the molecular level, nanotechnology is starting to bring big profits to many consumer product makers.
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Combining molecular modeling with old-fashioned mechanics yields a design for a nanoscale valve that controls the flow of minute amounts of fluids like drugs.
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New Delhi: American nanotechnology researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a tiny, implantable detector that could one day allow diabetics to monitor their glucose levels continuously without ever having to draw a blood sample.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in nanotechnology--and what they mean.
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John Kitching's tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it's never gone before.
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Contact lenses that release controlled doses of drugs to treat eye diseases such as glaucoma have been created by nano-engineers in Singapore.
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A new therapy shows glimpses of promise, but proving a benefit in heart patients could be hard.
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A new class of material, which brings computer chips made from a single molecule a step closer, has been discovered by scientists.
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Scientists have performed a delicate surgical operation on a single living cell, using a needle that is just a few billionths of a metre wide.
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Nanotechnology could enable engineers to combine the functions of memory chips and disk drives on a device the size of a dime.
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be. One cutting-edge experiment is designed to see if
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The use of subatomic materials as microscopic building blocks for thousands of consumer products has turned into a big business so quickly that few are monitoring the so-called nanotechnology's effects on health and the environment.