Nanotechnology
Nano-sized ‘factories’ churn out proteins
By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 09 Apr 2012
Researchers have developed a new type of nanoparticle that can synthesise proteins on demand to get around the problem of the human body breaking down the protein in drugs made from proteins to treat cancers
Video reveals wave character of particles
30 Mar 2012
Moving towards 3-D micro electromechanical systems
29 Feb 2012
Researchers have come up with a new approach to MEMS design that has enabled them to build a device that enables 3-D sensing on a single chip. By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office
Single-atom transistor is “perfect”
28 Feb 2012
Nanoparticles disrupt the digestive system
By By Katherine Bourzac | 27 Feb 2012
Controlling protein function with nanotechnology
23 Feb 2012
Single-atom transistor may be beginning of quantum computing
20 Feb 2012
The smallest transistor ever built — in fact, the smallest transistor that can be built — has been created using a single phosphorous atom by an international team of researchers
Microscopy explores nanowires' weakest link
14 Feb 2012
Disappearing gold a boon for nanolattices
30 Jan 2012
New way to stop bleeding
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 10 Jan 2012
MIT engineers have developed a nanoscale biological coating that can halt bleeding nearly instantaneously, an advance that could dramatically improve survival rates for soldiers injured in battle
Graphene reveals its magnetic personality
09 Jan 2012
Fewer animal experiments thanks to nanosensors
02 Jan 2012
Removable ‘cloak’ for nanoparticles helps target tumours
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 23 Dec 2011
A new type of drug-delivery nanoparticle that exploits a trait shared by almost all tumours — they are more acidic than healthy tissues — and can be used to deliver cancer drugs to nearly any type of tumour
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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