By Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
Many people feel a mature nanotechnology is necessary before any attempt will be made to revive cryonics patients. This is an attempt to let our readers know of the latest nano developments.
Nanogirl News is a free service provided by Nanotechnology Industries to promote technological awareness. The company specializes in nanotech consulting and web work. Gina has maintained the company’s website since 1998. She is signed up for suspension,with Alcor, is a Foresight Senior Associate member, and an Extropian. In her spare time she works with VRML software programs to give visual insight to the possibilities future technologies will enable us. You can check out her work at the Artistic License website at:
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Gina Miller
NANOGIRL NEWS
Many people feel a mature nanotechnology is necessary before any attempt will be made to revive cryonics patients. This is an attempt to let, our readers know of the latest nano developments.,
Nanogirl News is afree service provided
by Nanotechnology Industries to promote technological awareness. The company specializes in nanotech consulting and web work. Gina has maintained the company's website since 1998. She is signed up for suspension with Alcor, is a Foresight Senior Associate member, and an Extropian. In her spare time she works with VRML software programs to give visual insight to the possibilities
future technologies will enable us. You can check out her work at the Artistic License website at:
http://www.nanogirl.comIArtisticLicense .html
Living with Nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are stronger than steel and 50,000 times finer than human hair. Unfortunately they kill cells, which discourages researchers who'd like to use them to diagnose and treat disease. Now scientists have created a mimic of natural mucin that can make carbon nanotubes safe for living things. Berkeley Lab
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Arcles/Archive/sabl/2006/Jul/01.htmlNano World: Nanofibers for heart cells. The heart function of rats following heart attacks can be improved using heart cells wrapped in organic fibers only nanometers or billionths of a meter long that are impregnated with growth hormones, experts tell UPI's Nano World
http://www.physorg.com/news66654477.htmlNanotechnology being used to improve biocompatibility of human prosthetics and implants. As populations of the world age, the current trend is that people are not slowing down in their later years. The desire for increased activity among the elderly also means increased demands on medical researchers to come up with better ways to keep them active.
http://www.azom.com/details.asp?newsID=6210CMU professor says nanotechnology study may lead to tinier computers. Ever had the urge to slip your 500-gigabyte desktop computer into your back pocket? Koblar Alan Jackson is making no promises, but the Central Michigan University professor's research in nanophotonics may help lay the groundwork for future generations of computer downsizing. Think technology that one day could make the iPod's microcircuits resemble the oversize vacuum tubes in your grandfather's TV.
http://www.news.cmich.edu/news/index.asp?id=1448
World's tiniest test tubes get teensiest corks. Now all they need is a really, really small corkscrew. Like Lilliputian chemists, scientists have found a way to "cork" infinitesimally small nano test tubes. The goal is a better way to deliver drugs, for example, for cancer treatment. Scientists want to fill the teeny tubes with drugs and inject them into the body, where they will seek diseased or cancerous cells, uncork and spill their therapeutic contents in the right place.
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http://www.nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=3291Sandia work launched on space shuttle
shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures. Implications for sensors, tuberculosis modeling, cell preparation, surgical implant safety. Far above the heads of Earthlings, arrays of single-cell creatures are circling Earth in nanostructures. The sample devices are riding on the International Space Station (courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico, NASA and US Air Force) to test whether nanostructures whose formations were directed by yeast and other single cells can create more secure homes for their occupants-even in the vacuum and radiation of outer space-than those created by more standard chemical procedures. Brightsurf http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlnes/25502/Sandia_work_launched_on_space_shuttle_shows_live_cells_influence_growth_of_nanostructures.html
Vertically Oriented Nanoelectronics. Engineers at Purdue University have developed a technique to grow individual carbon nanotubes vertically on top of a silicon wafer, a step toward making advanced electronics, wireless devices and sensors using nanotubes by stacking circuits and components in layers. The technique might help develop a method for creating "vertically oriented" nanoelectronic devices, the electronic equivalent of a skyscraper, said Timothy S. Fisher, an associate professor of mechanical engineering who is leading the work with Timothy D. Sands, the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering. Technologynewsdaily
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/3959
Blood-compatible nanoscale materials possible using heparin. Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have engineered nanoscale materials that are blood compatible using heparin, an anticoagulant. The heparin biomaterials have potential for use as medical devices and in medical treatments such as kidney dialysis. Rensselaer
http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=1523&setappvar=page(1)
Rice scientists attach motor to single-molecule car. In follow-on work to last year's groundbreaking invention of the world's first single-molecule car, chemists at Rice University have produced the first motorized version of their tiny nanocar. The research is published in the April 13 issue of the journal Organic Letters. EurekAlert
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/ru-rsa041206.phpNanodogs could sniff out explosives in terror battle. Welsh scientists have developed a sensor they call a nanodog which is capable of 'sniffing' out microscopic low levels of explosives. It is hoped the technology will be used in the fight against terrorism, with airports and governments already showing an interest. The nanodog was developed by a team from the University of Wales, Bangor's school of chemistry, led by Professor Maher Kalaji. Small Times