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Public Release: 8-Feb-2010
 ScienceResearchers reveal 3-D structure of bullet-shaped virus with potential to fight cancer, HIV A recent UCLA study demonstrates that with advanced imaging technique, the vesicular stomatitis virus can be modified to serve as an anti-cancer agent because it displays high selectivity in killing cancer cells while sparing normal cells. It can also be engineered as a potent vaccine against HIV/AIDS. 
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Jennifer Marcus
Public Release: 8-Feb-2010
Physical Review LettersExtra large carbon The nucleus of one form of carbon is much larger and more stable than expected. Contact: James Riordon
Public Release: 4-Feb-2010
Physical Review LettersNIST's second 'quantum logic clock' based on aluminum ion is now world's most precise clock Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world's most precise clock, more than twice as precise as the previous pacesetter based on a mercury atom. The new aluminum clock would neither gain nor lose one second in about 3.7 billion years, according to measurements to be reported in Physical Review Letters.
Office of Naval Research
Contact: Laura Ost
Public Release: 4-Feb-2010
4 ORNL researchers selected for Recovery Act early career funds Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are among the 69 scientists that will receive five-year research grants as part of the US Department of Energy's new Early Career Research Program. Contact: Bill Cabage
Public Release: 4-Feb-2010
Big book explores a small world: Stuart Lindsay's guide to nanoscience Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University Regents' professor and director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics, has just released the first comprehensive guide to a tiny world a million times smaller than a single grain of sand. Contact: Joe Caspermeyer
Public Release: 3-Feb-2010
Athene Donald wins Science and Technology Award from Glamour magazine Athene Donald has won the Science and Technology award issued by the women's lifestyle publication, Glamour. In awarding the honor to Professor Donald, Glamour magazine praised her as a "great role model" and stated that "Athene has forged a real path for herself in the male-dominated world of physics." At Springer, she is on the Advisory Board of the European Physical Journal E. She has also written numerous articles in Springer's Journal of Materials Science. Contact: Joan Robinson
Public Release: 3-Feb-2010
Acta BiomaterialiaSmart coating opens door to safer hip, knee and dental implants Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a "smart coating" that helps surgical implants bond more closely with bone and ward off infection.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 2-Feb-2010
New Canadian solar photovoltaic research network established; based at McMaster University A new research network to advance Canada's standing in the development of solar photovoltaics will be based at McMaster University. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada is providing $5 million in funding to establish the NSERC Photovoltaic Innovation Network, which is comprised of 29 top scientists and engineers working in the field of advanced solar cell research at 13 universities across Canada. Eleven private sector companies are also part of the network.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Contact: Gene Nakonechny
Public Release: 2-Feb-2010
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesResearchers show applied electric field can significantly improve hydrogen storage properties An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility of the system.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Sathya Achia Abraham
Public Release: 2-Feb-2010
SmallResearch at Marshall University may lead to new ways to transport and manipulate molecules Dr. Eric Blough, an associate professor in Marshall University's Department of Biological Sciences, said he and his colleagues have shown how bionanomotors can be used some day to move and manipulate molecules at the nanoscale. Their research will be published in the Feb. 5 issue of the research journal Small. Contact: Ginny Painter
Public Release: 2-Feb-2010
Nano for the senses Pin-sharp projections, light that's whiter than white, varnishes that make sounds if the temperature changes: at nano tech 2010 in Tokyo, Fraunhofer researchers present nanotechnology that is a veritable feast for the senses. Contact: Dr. Michael Popall
Public Release: 1-Feb-2010
SNM's Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging SummitSNM's nanomedicine summit advances molecular imaging SNM's Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging Summit wrapped up today in Albuquerque, N.M., with in-depth discussion -- and a high sense of energy looking ahead. Contact: Amy Shaw
Public Release: 1-Feb-2010
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesGrowing cartilage -- no easy task Northwestern University researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage in vivo and without the use of expensive growth factors. The therapy is minimally invasive, utilizes bone marrow stem cells and produces natural cartilage. Unlike bone, cartilage does not grow back, and it cannot effectively be replaced. Countless people learn this all too well when they bring their bad knees, shoulders and elbows to an orthopedic surgeon.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Wendy Leopold
Public Release: 1-Feb-2010
New bioanalytical methods have potential for investigative and screening applications The Springer journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry has chosen Jean-Philippe Frimat as the recipient of its Best Paper Award 2009. Frimat is the lead author of a paper in ABC on plasma stenciling methods for cell patterning. The award, accompanied by 1,000 euros, was created by Springer to help exceptional young scientists establish their research careers. The ABC Best Paper Award has been given since 2005. Contact: Joan Robinson
Public Release: 1-Feb-2010
Engineers explore environmental concerns of nanotechnology As researchers around the world hasten to employ nanotechnology to improve production methods for applications that range from manufacturing materials to creating new pharmaceutical drugs, the national Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology looks at potential environmental exposure, biological effects and ecological consequences.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn A. Nystrom
Public Release: 28-Jan-2010
Lab on a ChipAdvances in cancer detection research by Virginia Tech engineer featured in British magazine An assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech helped engineer microsystems for the detection of water-borne pathogens using a technique called dielectrophoresis, which separates and identifies cells and microparticles suspended in a medium based on their size and electrical properties. Now he and colleagues have found a way to provide "the nonuniform electric field required for DEP that does not require electrodes to contact the sample fluid." Contact: Lynn A. Nystrom
Public Release: 28-Jan-2010
ScienceUsing magnetic toys as inspiration, researchers tease out structures of self-assembled clusters In the Jan. 29 issue of Science, a team from Harvard led by Vinothan Manoharan and Michael Brenner, presents additional clues to how and why groups of atoms and molecules may favor less symmetrical and more complex, flexible geometric patterns. The answer relates to a familiar concept in physics -- entropy. The researchers literally first caught sight of the link by using magnetic "stick and ball" construction toys.
National Science Foundation, US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter
Public Release: 28-Jan-2010
ScienceHow many argon atoms can fit on the surface of a carbon nanotube? Scientists have devised a way to explore how phase transitions -- changes of matter from one state to another without altering chemical makeup -- function in less than three dimensions and at the level of just a few atoms.
National Science Foundation, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, University of Washington Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington University Initiatives Fund
Contact: Vince Stricherz
Public Release: 27-Jan-2010
UC Riverside graphene specialist Jeanie Lau receives national honor at White House UC Riverside's Jeanie Lau, an associate professor of physics, received a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. President Barack Obama greeted Lau and the other 99 recipients of the PECASE, the highest award bestowed by the US Government upon scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent careers. Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
Public Release: 27-Jan-2010
Nano LettersEnergy-harvesting rubber sheets could power pacemakers, mobile phones Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton University engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.
US Intelligence Community
Contact: Chris Emery
Public Release: 27-Jan-2010
Physical Review LettersMismatched alloys are a good match for thermoelectrics Using the supercomputers at NERSC, Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrated that the semiconductors known as highly mismatched alloys hold great promise for the future development of high performance thermoelectric devices. Thermoelectrics could play a key role in green energy production because of their ability to convert heat into electricity.
Berkeley Lab
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 27-Jan-2010
Journal of Gene MedicineResearchers develop new tool for gene delivery Researchers have developed a new tool to deliver DNA in gene therapy. DNA delivered to the retina with a peptide called PEG-POD was expressed 215 times more efficiently than delivery of DNA alone. The finding highlights PEG-POD as a tool for nonviral gene therapy treatments for eye disorders such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.
NIH/National Eye Institute, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Foundation for Fighting Blindness, Ellison Foundation, Virginia B. Smith Trust, Lions Eye Foundation, Research to Prevent Blindness
Contact: Siobhan Gallagher
Public Release: 25-Jan-2010
Judy Riffle elected international fellow Judy S. Riffle, professor of chemistry and director of Virginia Tech's Macromolecular Science and Engineering program, was one of only three chemists worldwide to be named a Fellow in the Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering division of the American Chemical Society in 2010. She was recognized for her significant contributions to the science and engineering of polymeric materials. Contact: Catherine Doss
Public Release: 25-Jan-2010
ScienceSurprising discovery: X-rays drive formation of new crystals X-rays can do a lot of useful things but who knew they could cause crystals to form? Northwestern University researchers have discovered that X-rays can trigger the formation of a new type of crystal: charged cylindrical filaments ordered like a bundle of pencils experiencing repulsive forces, which is unknown in crystals. The results open the door to using X-rays to control the structure of materials or to develop novel biomedical therapies.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 22-Jan-2010
Journal of Cell BiologyNeuron connections seen in 3-D A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, in Germany, led by the Spanish physicist Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego, has managed to obtain 3-D images of the vesicles and filaments involved in communication between neurons. The method is based on a novel technique in electron microscopy, which cools cells so quickly that their biological structures can be frozen while fully active. Contact: SINC
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