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Chemistry World February 3, 2006 Simon Hadlington	High Throughput Screening for Kinase Inhibitors Researchers have developed a system for assessing the activity of a crucial class of enzymes involved in cellular signalling pathways.
Chemistry World August 25, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Antibiotic nanoparticles go for gold Chemists in the UK and India have developed a simple, one step synthesis of gold nanoparticles incorporating an antibiotic, without using any other chemicals.
Chemistry World July 17, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Pinning down cancer US scientists have synthesized pin-shaped nanoparticles with magnetic and optical properties. The nanoparticles could be used for magnetic resonance imaging, early detection and photothermal therapy of cancer and other diseases.
Chemistry World December 12, 2013 Jeanne Therese Andres	Kiss-and-run drug delivery Carriers that release hydrophobic substances at cell membranes but do not enter the cells themselves could be the foundation for a new way to deliver drugs into cells, according to a team of scientists in Germany.
Chemistry World April 19, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Cell factories package drugs for delivery Scientists in Australia and Germany have used living cells as 'factories' to encapsulate particles such as drugs in biological membranes.
Chemistry World November 6, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Soybeans Strike Nanogold A simple mix of soybeans, water and gold salts may hold the secret to producing gold nanoparticles without harming the environment, according to one team of US researchers.
Chemistry World May 1, 2012 David Bradley	A colorful way to size up nanoparticles Researchers in China have now developed a straightforward light-scattering technique to estimate the size of gold nanoparticles in the 35 to 110nm range.
Chemistry World June 5, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	Nanoparticles scrub up a treat in hot water bath Upping the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles can be as simple as a good wash in hot water, UK chemists have shown.
Chemistry World October 18, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Nanoparticle Reveals Sulfur's Midas Touch Researchers in the US have taken a snapshot of the inside of a gold nanoparticle, shedding crucial new light on one of chemistry's longest-standing questions: how does sulfur bind to gold?
Technology Research News July 16, 2003	Jet-laser tandem prints gold Researchers have found a way to print gold structures. The researchers suspended gold nanoparticles, which have a lower melting point then bulk gold, in a solution and used a modified ink-jet printer to print patterns of the solution onto a surface.
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Chemistry World August 9, 2012 Jon Cartwright	'Genetic code' guides nanoparticle growth Researchers in the US and China have demonstrated that DNA can also be used as a blueprint for the creation of non-biological structures. Their 'genetic code' could pave the way for tailored nanoparticles -- fit for use as catalysts, or in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003	Micro fuel cell runs cool Researchers have made a tiny methane fuel cell that works at 60 degrees Celsius. They have also shown that the fuel cell can use high concentration methanol to increase its operating time.
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Reactive Reports September 2005 David Bradley	Nano Surprise A surprising mechanism by which polymers form nanocomposite particles could provide researchers with a new tool for controlling the growth of such materials.
Chemistry World March 16, 2009 Hayley Birch	Nanodumbbells Target Cancer Cells US scientists have designed nanoparticles that function like 'guided missiles' in the targeted destruction of breast cancer cells.
Chemistry World July 20, 2011 Josh Howgego	Magnets turn up the heat on tumours Claims that magnets can cure cancer might sound like quackery. But French researchers have harnessed iron oxide structures from bacteria to selectively kill tumour cells using an alternating magnetic field.
Chemistry World November 25, 2011 Jon Evans	Cancer diagnosis goes for gold Gold nanoparticles could help diagnose a wide range of different cancers by detecting telomerase activity within cells, say Chinese chemists.
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 Eric Smalley	Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers.
Chemistry World February 28, 2014 Tim Wogan	Fuel cells put in the frame with catalysts that need far less platinum US scientists have created an exceptional fuel cell catalyst that contains far less platinum -- conventional catalysts need 36 times more platinum to hit the same levels of activity.
Technology Research News May 7, 2003	Researchers fill virus with metal One way to construct materials atom by atom is to conscript machinery nature has already devised.
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Chemistry World January 23, 2011 James Urquhart	Novel nanoparticle filter Israeli researchers have created a recyclable membrane based on supramolecular linkages that can be used to filter nanoparticles.
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Chemistry World March 24, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Producing powerful palladium particles US scientists have found a way to clean up the production of palladium nanoparticles - doubling their performance as catalysts for fuel cells.
Chemistry World May 21, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Silver nanoparticles see the light Researchers have stumbled across a simple but as yet unexplained way to make silver nanoparticles luminescent. The finding is important because luminescence is often used to track the movement and location of nanoparticles -- within cells, for example.
Chemistry World September 2, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Nanoparticles Paint a Finer Picture Swiss scientists have developed a process that can print detailed images using nanoparticles as 'ink', while maintaining their catalytic and optical properties.
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 David Bradley	Solar-powered autoclave punks pathogens It sounds like the most desirable machine in a 'steampunk' laboratory: a solar-powered autoclave that sterilizes using light-harvesting nanoparticles that blast out steam.
Chemistry World October 9, 2014 James Urquhart	Designer nanoparticles cast in DNA molds German researchers have developed a DNA origami approach to produce custom-made inorganic nanoparticles with programmable, pre-designed shapes.
Chemistry World June 14, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Young-Ish Giants Party On Chemist Fraser Stoddart celebrated his 65th birthday in scholarly style last week, with a group of chemistry's rising stars that raised a glass - and a slide or two - in his honor.
Chemistry World September 14, 2009 Simon Hadlington	New 'on-off' membrane for drug delivery A team led by Daniel Kohane of Harvard Medical School in Boston, US, harnessed the thermosensitive properties of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) to form the basis of the new system.
Chemistry World October 9, 2012 Elinor Hughes	A cancer treatment that goes further A cancer treatment that uses titanium dioxide nanoparticles to kill tumor cells has been given a sound revamping by researchers in Japan.
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Chemistry World February 12, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Nanoparticles slow iron absorption in the gut Nanoparticles used in food and pharmaceuticals could have unintended physiological effects.
Chemistry World June 19, 2012 Anthony King	Nanoparticles linked to rheumatoid arthritis Three types of nanoparticles were found to ramp up protein citrullination in cell cultures, a change that can make the body think native proteins are foreign. This process has previously been linked to autoimmune disease.
Chemistry World March 9, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Finding the Risks of Nanoparticle Exposure A new model for nanoparticle exposure should provide more realistic insights into the possible health risks of airborne nanoparticles, researchers in Switzerland claim.
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Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Process prints nanoparticles Researchers have coaxed tiny particles of gold, silver and carbon to assemble into patterns on silicon wafers over areas as large as a square centimeter by using electrical charge patterns to attract and position the nanoparticles.
Chemistry World March 11, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Building nano-scale electronic contacts An international team of researchers has discovered a way of firmly 'welding' carbon nanotubes to metal particles that could lead to new nano-scale electronic contacts.
Chemistry World August 23, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Gold plating improves nanotube imaging Techniques used to image tumors and infections improve when the carbon nanotube 'contrast agents' are gold plated, researchers in the US have discovered.
Chemistry World August 19, 2009 Hayley Birch	Gold nanoparticles detect cancer Chinese scientists have used gold nanoparticles as ultrasensitive fluorescent probes to detect cancer biomarkers in human blood.
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Science News November 30, 2008 Janet Raloff	Nanosilver Disinfects -- But At What Price? Consumer and medical products employ billionths-of-a-meter scale silver particles as embedded disinfectants. A study now suggests that if those nanoparticles get loose and into the body, they might wreak havoc with the human immune system.