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Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest: July 9, 2008Discuss these news stories at http://foresight.org/nanodot. Top Nano News of the WeekFormulating an anticancer drug using nanotechnology eliminates toxic neurological side-effectsA nanotech formulation may have saved one of the most promising broad-spectrum antiangiogenesis cancer therapies from being side-tracked due to neurotoxic side effects… In this issue:
Foresight Event – Vision Weekend Nanotechnology approach to drug delivery uses multifunctional nanoparticles to silence geneA major nanotech advance in engineering multifunctional nanoparticles for imaging and therapeutic applications combines a short RNA (siRNA) to "silence" a specific gene with quantum dots and a "proton sponge" polymer coating to get the siRNA into the cell and released into the right compartment of the cell, rendering it both much more efficient and much less toxic to the cell… 'Cooking' cancer cells with nanotechnologyIn yet another nanotech approach to cancer therapy, researchers demonstrated in laboratory experiments that antibody-coated carbon nanotubes only bind to cancer cells targeted by the antibody, and that irradiation with near-infrared light causes the bound carbon nanotubes to heat up and kill the cancer cells… Bottom-up nanotechnology with metals and polymersProducing highly porous nanostructures made from metal is difficult because metal atoms are unhappy in structures having very high surface areas. By coating metal nanoparticles with organic molecules and using a block co-polymer as a scaffold, a novel nanotech procedure produces metal nanostructures containing uniform hexagonal pores about 10 nm across that could supply new catalysts, faster metal wires for microchips, and better optical materials… Sorting electron spins by nanotechnologyA discovery of unexpected properties of an insulating layer only a few atoms thick may lead to a new nanotech approach to faster computers by sorting electrons according to their spins… —Nanodot posts by James Lewis Foresight Event – Save the Date!November 15-16, 2008 Advancing Beneficial NanotechnologyDo you believe that nanotechnology will give society the ability to tackle the hard challenges facing humanity? What's your priority for nanotechnology: cancer treatments and longevity therapies, sustainable energy, clean water, a restored environment, space development, or "zero waste" manufacturing? Or perhaps there are potential nanotech scenarios you would like to prevent. If you would like to help influence the direction of this powerful technology, please consider becoming a member of Foresight Nanotech Institute. With your support, Foresight will continue to educate the general public on beneficial nanotechnology and what it will mean to our society. To join: Foresight PartnersForesight note: One free conference ticket is available to a Foresight Senior Associate only for the following conference. Please contact Alicia Isaac either at foresight@foresight.org or by phone 650.289.0860. Nanotech Northern Europe 2008 Nanotech Northern Europe brings together the field's top scientists and leading international companies in order to advance the beneficial use of nanotechnology. The 2008 event concentrates around three application areas:
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Foresight LecturesJuly 23, 2008 Nanotech EventsNational Nano Engineering Conference 2008 The National Nano Engineering Conference 2008 (NNEC) is the premier event focused on current and future developments in engineering innovations at the nanoscale, as well as the commercialization of nanotechnology. Presentations on new technologies and their commercial applications in the following disciplines:
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