[imageframe lightbox="no" gallery_id="" lightbox_image="" style_type="none" hover_type="none" bordercolor="" bordersize="0px" borderradius="0" stylecolor="" align="left" link="" linktarget="_self" animation_type="0" animation_direction="down" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""][/imageframe] Frank Boehm (NanoApps Medical Inc. CEO) contributed to Neurophotonics and Brain Mapping, edited by Yu Chen and Babek Kateb. The book is due to be released by CRC Press on April 6 2017. About the Book Understanding [...]

  If you've ever wanted to get your hands on the codes that run the Mars rover Curiosity, New Horizons Pluto probe or other NASA spacecraft, here's your (latest) chance. The space agency has released its 2017-2018 software catalog to the public, allowing anyone to access NASA codes free of charge. "The software [...]

A new optical nanosensor enabling more accurate measurement and spatiotemporal mapping of the brain also shows the way forward for design of future multimodal sensors and a broader range of applications, say researchers in an article published in the current issue of Neurophotonics ("Imaging extracellular potassium dynamics in brain tissue using a potassium-sensitive nanosensor"). Neuronal [...]

For two decades, scientists have known that unexplained blinking occurs in cadmium selenide nanoparticles and they’ve since observed blinking in silicon nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are promising components of optoelectronic devices such as LEDs, lasers, and solar cells. To add to this mystery, scientists found that nanoparticles obtained with different preparation conditions showed different blinking characteristics. Now [...]

Twelve types of bacteria were deemed "priorities" in urgent need of new antibiotics, according to a list released by the World Health Organization on Monday. The first list of its kind, it highlights bacteria that global health experts believe pose the greatest threats to human health. The WHO is calling on governments and pharmaceutical companies [...]

From an article at phys.org: Successful results of a University of Liverpool-led trial that utilised nanotechnology to improve drug therapies for HIV patients has been presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, a leading annual conference of HIV research, clinical practice and progress. The healthy volunteer trial, conducted by the [...]

From an article at futurism.com: In September of last year, SpaceX suffered a major setback that postponed any launches until earlier this month. The failed launch cost the company more than $740 million. Still, the company reports no debt and plans to launch a total of 4,425 satellites to deliver high-speed internet to the globe. [...]

From news.com.au: Bioterrorism has the potential to kill tens of millions of people and be more deadly than nuclear war, billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, the tech icon said that despite the immense calamity engineered viruses can cause, no country on Earth is ready [...]

From an article at phys.org: DNA, the stuff of life, may very well also pack quite the jolt for engineers trying to advance the development of tiny, low-cost electronic devices. Much like flipping your light switch at home—-only on a scale 1,000 times smaller than a human hair—-an ASU-led team has now developed the first [...]

Many of the secrets of cancer and other diseases lie in the cell's nucleus. But getting way down to that level -- to see and investigate the important genetic material housed there -- requires creative thinking and extremely powerful imaging techniques. Vadim Backman and Hao Zhang, nanoscale imaging experts at Northwestern University, have developed a [...]