From nanowerk.com: Toxicity of nanomaterials is an emerging issue for public health and environmental safety. However, currently available toxicity screening methods are not fully compatible with nanotoxicity studies.Due to the unique physicochemical characteristics of nanomaterials, such as altered light absorption or scattering properties, the conventional cytotoxicity assays have been shown to create complications in nanotoxicity [...]

From nanotech-now.com: Millions of illnesses and more than 1,000 deaths every year in the U.S. are attributable to foodborne illness caused by known pathogens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Conventional methods to screen food to find sickness-causing microbes can take as long as 24 hours, which is often too slow to [...]

From phys.org: A tiny therapeutic delivery system that can control the body's ability to manufacture proteins has been developed by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) researchers. Genes contain the instructions for manufacturing the proteins that make up our body. Genetic information is translated into the proteins needed to build living [...]

From medgadget.com: Malaria is pretty easy to detect inside a hospital laboratory, but the disease is prevalent in poor areas of the world where clinical access is often limited. Duke University researchers have now developed a fully automated system that can be used in the field to test for malaria with only a blood prick. [...]

From npr.org: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced one of its biggest investments to date: It is ponying up more than $3 billion to kickstart "Chan Zuckerberg Science," an initiative that plans to bring together multidisciplinary teams of scientists in an effort to prevent, cure or manage "all diseases in our children's lifetime." If you [...]

  Legendary master filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) examines the past, present and constantly evolving future of the Internet in Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. Working with NETSCOUT, a world leader in-real time service assurance and cybersecurity, which came aboard as a producer and led him [...]

 From a post by Nanoneophyte: Since 2010’s tragic events, which saw BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster desecrate the Gulf of Mexico, oil safety has been on the forefront of the environmental debate and media outrage. In line with the mounting concerns continuing to pique public attention, at the end of this month, Hollywood will release its own [...]

From a post written by AZoNano: A significant discovery was announced by Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) featuring results enabled by Protochips in situ products. In a world where 3-D printing and nanotechnology are becoming commonplace, Dr. Raymond Unocic of ORNL has discovered a way to combine them with significant results. Dr. Unocic and colleagues [...]

From a post by Nanoneophyte: Over the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been the white-hot center of a flurry of activity. Startups that create embedded sensors for physical things have been snapped up by larger companies at a rapid pace, with deals for IoT startups totaling more than $30 billion in the [...]

  From an article by Cayla Dengate at the Huffington Post (Australia): Antibiotic resistance threatens to leave humanity at the mercy of bacteria, where a surgical wound or bladder infection could spell a slow fight against death. Yet in the face of this global issue, it's hard to visualise exactly what antibiotic resistance is and how [...]