Nano Science, Nanobiology & Bionanotechnology

The University of Miami, Nature Publishing Group and Scripps Florida are pleased to announce:

Miami 2012 Winter Symposium: Nanotechnology in Biomedicine

Three decades following the initial report of scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopies and the first description of carbon nanotubes, novel nanomaterials are opening up new opportunities in imaging,

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A novel nanomaterial-based technology to solve corneal blindness due to endothelial diseases has been developed by an Indo-Japan consortium of stem cell scientists and nanomaterial experts. Dr Kazutoshi Haraguchi, director, Kawamura Institute of Chemical Research, Japan, presented this on the sixth anniversary of Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The NCRM NICHE 2011.

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Nanotechnology comprises of any technological developments on the nanometer scale, usually 0.1 to 100nm (one nanometer equals one thousandth of a micrometer or one millionth of a millimetre). The terms has sometimes been applied to any microscopic technology.

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Nanocellulose has been at the focus of a good deal of industrial and scientific interest as a novel biomaterial. Potential applications range from the creation of new kinds of commercially useful materials and uses in medical technology all the way to the food and pharmaceutical industries.

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Reproducibly high transfection rates with low methodology-induced cytotoxic side effects are essential to attain the required effect on targeted cells when exogenous DNA is transfected. The critical points in these experimental approaches are the achieved

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