The treatment uses silica-based fluorescent nanoparticles endowed with natural bone targeting capabilities which have the capacity to increase bone mineral density and may be applicable to the amelioration of numerous osteoporotic conditions.

20 Apr 2013. The first nanotech natural textiles coating centre opened in Phrae, Thailand. Thai Cabinet Ministers will be encouraged to wear nano-coated clothing as a advert for the value of nano in textiles, and traffic police in the province of Phrae will be issued with nano-coated uniforms.

Researchers have created a pore in “Cornell Dots” – brightly glowing nanoparticles nicknamed C-Dots – that can carry medicine. This new and improved nanoscale courier may help light up cancer cells and provide a new patient-friendly, viable option to battle cancer.

A multidisciplinary team at Trinity College Dublin from the School of Medicine and CRANN, the Science Foundation Ireland funded nanoscience institute, has made a breakthrough in nano-materials research.

Folded DNA templates allow researchers to precisely cut out graphene shapes, which could be used in electronic circuits.

A team of researchers has made a major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressures. For the first time, they developed a way to get around the severe distortions of high-energy X-ray beams that are used to image the structure of a gold nanocrystal.

Nanotherapeutics & diagnostics: a leading edge symposium on medical nanotechnologies inspired by Nature. Thursday, Jun 6, 2013     8:15am – 6:30pm, Amphitheater, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115

Scientists have made key advances toward practical uses of a new genre of tiny, biocompatible electronic devices that could be implanted into the body to relieve pain or battle infection for a specific period of time, and then dissolve harmlessly.

Genes from the family of bacteria that produce vinegar, Kombucha tea and nata de coco have become stars in a project - which scientists said has reached an advanced stage - that would turn algae into solar-powered factories for producing the "wonder material" nanocellulose.

Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study.