NanoBlog

I've been hearing about stem cells for a while and ran across this photo at Cell Image Library. It very interesting and would show a copy of the image here but it does not show up so follow the above link.

The Nanoarchitecture.net web site is dedicated to educating architects and designs on the subject of nanotechnology. The site is nicely design and informative so much so that I got sucked in for quite some time. Check it out if you dare.

I've run across a number of interesting and informative web sites to support science, engineering, biological research, and laboratory procedures. These include:

• BenchFly produces videos of protocols.
• Scivee.tv is a research collaboration website allowing scientist and engineers to upload videos and presentations.
• JoVE.com is the Journal of Visualized Experiments providing videos on research techniques.

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Medical Institute has posted some 3D animations showing biological processes on its new wehi.TV channel. The animations were developed as an educational tools, are very well done, and effective. The sequence on the origin of breast cancer was very informative.

The MRS has posted the winners of their 2011 nanoart contest. There are some cool photos this year. My favorite is shown below.

The Jan 2012 issue of ACSNano is open access with a lot of good articles on subjects including nanowires, plasmons, graphene, and biological applications.

Remember the news about run away Toyota's? Well NASA seems to have figured out why. The accelerator petal uses a potentiometer (variable resistor) to control the cars speed. Turns out tin whiskers grew between the connector contacts and shorted out the potentiometer making the controller think the driver stepped on the gas. Tin whiskers have caused the failure of may things over the years and will be more of a issue since the electronics industry has gone lead free. Lead keeps tin whiskers from growing. Check out NASAs web site on tin whiskers. It really cool.

NanomedTV is an online web site dedicated to nanomedicine. It was created by Nanobiotix and the European Technology Platform of Nanomedicine, and it intends to answer various questions like :

• What is nanomedicine?
• Where is it going?
• What is real or is it hype?
• Who are the actors?

Dr Laurent Levy, Phd. has posted a number videos on nanomedicine from the Bio Europe 2011 conference. Topics include:

• Manufaturing nanomedicine product
• Communicate with regulatory agencies about innovation
• How to handle safety with nanomedicine products
• Is nanomedicine personnalized medicine?
• Clinical development of nanomedicine product. is it different from usual drugs?
• Generic in nanomedicine

One talk seems to be in French with English language slides, and the panel discussions appear to be in English based on my small sampling of the material.

Fujitsu Laboratories has posted a short video on its New Carbon Composite of Nanotubes and Graphene. The composite material combines carbon nanotubes with graphene to provide better thermal conductivity in all directions.