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January 19/26, 2009
Virus builds tissue scaffold
Get genetically-modified, bacteria-infecting viruses to act like a liquid crystal and you could have a way to treat spinal cord injuries. [more]
Rust makes nanocapsules open by remote control
Mix the right two plastics with a sprinkling of rust and you can deliver drugs by turning on a magnetic field. [more]
Light switch controls genes
Attach short strands of RNA to gold nanoparticles and you have a gene-silencing remote control. [more]
STORIES ELSEWHERE
Stories about the Science paper Broadband Ground-Plane Cloak:
Invisibility cloak one step closer to reality, Scientific American
Scientists weave invisibility cloak, Nature News
Invisibility-Cloak Breakthrough, Technology Review
A Real Cloaking Device, Popular Science
Stories about the Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences paper Nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging:
A Breakthrough in Imaging: A New Way to See a Virus, New York Times
MRI for Viruses, Technology Review
IBM's Sharp New Focus, Forbes
IBM microscope 100 million times stronger than MRI, Cnet
Stories about the Nature paper Large-scale Pattern Growth of Graphene Films for Stretchable Transparent Electrodes:
Graphene electrode promises stretchy circuits, Nature News
Bigger, Stretchier Graphene, Technology Review
Let's Do the Twist, Popular Science
Stories about the Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences paper Tetherless Thermobiochemically Actuated Microgrippers:
A Microscopic Tool Inspired by the Human Hand, New York Times
Getting a Teeny-Tiny Grip, Scientific American
Step One in Your Surgery: Swallow the Microscopic Hands, Discover
Story about the Science paper Programmed Assembly of DNA-Coated Nanowire Devices:
Nanotech gadget could diagnose any disease, New Scientist
Story about the Advanced Materials paper Optoelectrothermic Control of Highly Integrated Polymer-Based MEMS Applied in an Artificial Skin:
Morphing gel display puts images at your fingertips, New Scientist
Story about the Science paper Self-Organization of a Mesoscale Bristle into Ordered, Hierarchical Helical Assemblies:
Nanobristles Twist to hold particles, New Scientist
Story about the Applied Physics Letters paper Flexible photodetectors on plastic substrates by use of printing transferred single-crystal germanium membranes:
An eye for detail, The Engineer
Story about the Nature Nanotechnology paper A smart dust biosensor powered by kinesin motors:
Harnessing Molecular Motors: Nanotechnology and Biology Meet to Redefine 'Lab on a Chip', Treehugger
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WATCH January 14, 2008 Citizen science in the age of connectedness A nice column in the New York Times by biologist Aaron E. Hirsh explains the rise of Big Science — massive, centralized projects with large staffs and expensive equipment — and the emerging trend of distributed citizen science. [more] |
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is to the rest of science what machine tools are to engineering. A
corollary is that science places power in our hands which can be used
for good or ill. Technology has been abused in this way throughout
the ages from gunpowder to atomic bombs." - John Pendry, Imperial College London |
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