SPADnet ? “Fully Networked, Digital Components for Photon-starved Biomedical Imaging Systems” ? is a new collaborative research project funded by the European Union within the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Theme of its Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). The project, launched on July 1st, 2010, is coordinated by EPFL and it includes seven leading European […]
Graphene may hold key to speeding up DNA sequencing
Cambridge, Mass. – September 9, 2010 – In a paper published as the cover story of the September 9, 2010 Nature, researchers from Harvard University and MIT have demonstrated that graphene, a surprisingly robust planar sheet of carbon just one-atom thick, can act as an artificial membrane separating two liquid reservoirs. By drilling a tiny […]
DOD, industry fund $5.6M SMU-led research for realistic robotic arms that move, ‘feel’
Lightning-fast connections between robotic limbs and the human brain may be within reach for injured soldiers and other amputees with the establishment of a multimillion-dollar research center led by SMU engineers. Funded by a Department of Defense initiative dedicated to audacious challenges and intense time schedules, the Neurophotonics Research Center will develop two-way fiber optic […]
Carnegie Mellon receives funding to create new program studying environmental impact of nanotechnology
PITTSBURGH—Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Howard University in Washington, D.C., have received a five-year, $3.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new interdisciplinary program in the environmental affects and policy implications of nanotechnology. Funding comes from a new NSF program called the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT), […]
New pump created for microneedle drug-delivery patch
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of “microneedles” to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible with conventional patches. The current “transdermal” patches are limited to delivering drugs that, like nicotine, are made of small hydrophobic molecules that […]
NASA funds development of nanoscale materials for high energy density lithium-ion batteries
NanoEngineers at the University of California, San Diego are designing new types of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that could be used in a variety of NASA space exploration projects – and in a wide range of transportation and consumer applications. NEI Corporation and UC San Diego recently won a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer contract […]
‘Greening’ your flat screen TV
Electronic products pollute our environment with a number of heavy metals before, during and after they’re used. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 70% of heavy metals in landfill come from discarded electronics. With flat screen TVs getting bigger and cheaper every year, environmental costs continue to mount. To counter this, a new Tel Aviv […]
Health diagnosis made simpler
TEMPE, Ariz. ? Arizona State University researchers have demonstrated a way to dramatically simplify testing patients for infectious diseases and unhealthy protein levels. New testing instrumentation developed by Antonia Garcia and John Schneider promises to make the procedure less costly and produce results in less time. Current testing is slow and expensive because of the […]
Iowa State awards grants to develop health, energy and research technologies
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University researchers will use grants of state money to develop an instrument that reveals single molecules, test technology that can detect food contamination, design taller wind turbine towers and advance seven other projects with potential to grow the state’s economy. The state Board of Regents recently approved Iowa State’s proposal […]
Software for efficient computing in the age of nanoscale devices
As semiconductor manufacturers build ever smaller components, circuits and chips at the nano scale become less reliable and more expensive to produce. The variability in their behavior from device to device and over their lifetimes ? due to manufacturing, aging-related wear-out, and varying operating environments ? is largely ignored by today’s mainstream computer systems. Now […]