MIT News: Nanoscience and nanotechnologyNanoscience and nanotechnology headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office.Experts describe promise of nanotech for cancer- June 30, 2008 Speakers from MIT and other institutions described the promise of nanotechnology to help diagnose, treat and monitor cancer at the annual symposium hosted by the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT on Friday, June 27.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/cancer-symp-0630.html Cancer symposium to focus on nanotechnology- June 24, 2008 Institute Professor Robert Langer and other top cancer researchers will speak at the 2008 symposium hosted by MIT's David H. Koch Center for Integrative Cancer Research on Friday, June 27, at Kresge Auditorium.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/cancer-symp-adv-0624.html MIT team develops better X-ray nanomirrors- June 9, 2008 A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/nanomirrors-0609.html Stripes key to nanoparticle drug delivery- June 9, 2008 In work that could at the same time impact the delivery of drugs and explain a biological mystery, MIT engineers have created the first synthetic nanoparticles that can penetrate a cell without poking a hole in its protective membrane and killing it.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/nanocell-0609.html |