Nanotechnology in the treatment of cancer | World of Science
Updated: 2009-05-31 19:10:00
World of Science: Nanotechnology in the treatment of cancer.
Video is now available from the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference held at Oxford University, July 2008. Lecturers include SIAI Scientific Advisor Prof. Nick Bostrom and SIAI Research Fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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3D structural DNA nanotechnology Designs and TEM micrographs (100 nm scale bars)
“Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes”SM Douglas, et al., Nature, 459:414–418 (2009).
In a new paper, Shawn Douglas and his colleagues at William Shih’s lab have demonstrated the first systematic method for building multilayer 3D nanostructures of DNA. In his commentary, Tom LaBean [...]
A comment on my previous post reminded me of a wonderful visualization that amounts to a map of the whole of science, generated by citation-based clustering of almost a million papers. The image above is a view of an extraordinarily information-dense representation, not just of connections among fields, but of their content. At 13,566,672 pixels, [...]
The Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems explores how current laboratory techniques for atomically precise fabrication can be extended to develop progressively more powerful fabrication technologies; it focuses on current capabilities and next-stage applications, then outlines paths toward high-throughput molecular manufacturing.
The Russian Academy of Sciences has now made a translation of the Technology Roadmap [pdf] available.
The [...]
A DNA origami box Design (A), with a cut-open and full view (B, C) of a cryo-EM map*
“Self-assembly of a nanoscale DNA box with a controllable lid”ES Andersen, et al., Nature, 459:73–76 (2009).
A paper in the current issue of Nature reports the fabrication of DNA origami boxes ~35 nm on a side; to my [...]
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I’ve now posted the slides for my Berkeley talk on objectives and experimental directions in biomolecular/inorganic composite nanosystems: Click here to download.
The talk was a keynote at the 2009 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum.
I’ve described some of the concepts and motivations in an earlier post, and this technology direction is also discussed in the [...]