 | Consultation to revise the Recommendation on a Code of Conduct for Responsible Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies Research - closes soon
On 7th February 2008 the European Commission adopted a Recommendation on a Code of Conduct for Responsible Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies Research, suggesting that a revision should be made after two years
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| Synthetic Biology raises safety and security issues
The European Group on Ethics (EGE) just published its Opinion on the Ethics of Synthetic Biology, adopted on 18 November 2009.
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| EC Action Plan for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies - Second Implementation Report
On 29th October 2009, the European Commission adopted the Communication "Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies: an action plan for Europe 2005-2009.
Second Implementation Report 2007-2009".
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| Give your Opinion on the Nanotech Research Code of Conduct
he European Commission has opened a public consultation in order to receive input from all people and organisations involved or interested in nanosciences and nanotechnologies research.
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| EC Action Plan for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
On 29 October 2009, the European Commission adopted the Communication "Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies" an action plan for Europe 2005-2009, "Second Implementation Report 2007-2009".
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| MagForce announces successful Completion of final clinical Trials for Nano-Cancer® Therapy (Nanostart)
MagForce Nanotechnologies AG, the Berlin-based medical technology company majority owned by Nanostart AG, today announced the successful completion of final trials demonstrating the efficacy of its Nano-Cancer® therapy in patients with recurrent glioblastoma, a frequent form of brain tumor which is highly malignant. The actual study results significantly exceeded the study objective.
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| EU to Review Nanomaterials Policies
he EU executive plans to respond positively to the European Parliament's call for a number of EU policies and regulations covering health and environmental safety issues related to nanomaterials to be reviewed.
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| Nanotechnology Decision-making Needs Greater Public Involvement (DEEPEN)
While efforts to involve the public in decision making on new technologies such as nanotechnology are impressive, they need to be substantially rethought, argues a new report from the EU-funded DEEPEN ('Deepening ethical engagement and participation in emerging nanotechnologies') project.
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| EUMINAfab Starts User Operation
EUMINAfab is the first European Research Infrastructure on multimaterial micro and nanotechnology. It offers open and no-cost access to state of the art fabrication and characterisation technologies for a multitude of functional materials.
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| UCSB Scientists Discover Potential Drug Delivery System (UCSB)
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a potential new drug delivery system.
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| Reference materials for nanotechnology
The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Germany has compiled a website which lists all nanoscale reference materials that are commercially available worldwide.
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| European body should develop normative framework for Human Enhancement (STOA)
STOA, the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment Unit of the European Parliament just released a study on Human Enhancement. The authors recommend to set up a European body for the development of a normative framework that guides the formulation of EU policies no Human Enhancement.
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| Combination nanoparticles to fight cancer (Lewis Brindley, RSC)
Korean chemists have assembled a multitalented nanoparticle that can hunt down, treat, and illuminate cancerous cells. The therapy combines diagnosis, treatment, and real-time monitoring of cancer progression, and although it may be several years before it reaches the market, it is a bold step towards useful nanoparticle-based medicine.
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| SAFENANO team complete global review
‘EMERGNANO’ – the first global review of active research into the environment, health and safety risks of nanotechnology has been published today by Defra, the UK Government Department for Food & Rural Affairs.
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| Dutch Committee Nanodialogue Installed
The Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs officially installed the national Committee Societal Dialogue Nanotechnology, and gave them the task to organize a national dialogue on nanotechnology until 31 December 2010.
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| Safer Nanoparticles Spotlight Tumors, Deliver Drugs
Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nano-scale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule flakes of silicon that glow brightly, last long enough to slowly release cancer drugs, then break down into harmless by-products.
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| European Parliamentarians critical of nano-regulation
The European Parliament is currently discussing a very critical draft report on regulatory aspects of nanomaterials, by rapporteur Carl Schlyter of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
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| EthicSchool e-learning DVDs available for free. Order now!
From mid-February 2009, EthicSchool distributes 500 e-learning DVDs on Ethics of Nanotechnology and of Converging Technologies for free to lecturers giving courses on Ethics of Science and Technology, and for self-study. Contact Ineke Malsch to order one or more copies.
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| Nanotubes shown to boost neuron signals (R.Colin Johnson/EETimes)
A team of researchers in Italy and Switzerland found carbon nanotubes to be a biocompatible material that can be attached to specific neurons to enhance their natural signal-processing capabilities.
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| Stakeholders want Information, Engagement and Regulatory Review
The proceedings of the European Commission conference on Nanotechnology: Safety for Success are published online.
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| CEA-LETI Extends the Transistor Dimension Scaling by Through the Use of 3D Nanowire FET
CEA-LETI has successfully integrated on the same SOI wafer different types of advanced transistor structures like stacked nanowires transistors, FINFETs and independent dual gate FET, using a common flow compatible with standard planar FDSOI devices.
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| First Output from the observatoryNANO Project
The observatoryNANO dynamic website is now live. Already available are interim reports on 10 technology sectors (a total of 56 reports will be available by the end of the year) and the first newsletter (which includes interviews with Professor Arie Rip (University of Twente, Netherlands) and Dr Tony Musu (European Trade Union Institute).
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| New Molecules With Many Branches Will Help Unleash Potential Of Nanotechnology (Alpha Galileo)
Materials science and the pharmaceutical industry could soon be revolutionized by emerging nanotechnologies based on designer molecules with long complex tree-and branch structures.
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| Call for Proposals: Researchers' Night 2009 (CORDIS)
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Research has published a call for proposals for the 'Researchers' Night 2009' event. This call is designed for organisations in European Union Member States and associated countries.
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| NFFA Survey on the Potential of an European Distributed Research Infrastructure for Nanoscience (NFFA)
The European Commission has awarded a feasibility study for setting up a cluster of distributed nanoscience foundries co-located at the large scale facilities in EU member states.
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| Sensitive Nanowire Disease Detectors Made by Yale Scientists (Yale University)
Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano Letters.
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| FP7 2009 Calls of Theme 2
FP7 2009 call for proposals of the Theme 2 "Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology" (FP7-KBBE-2009-3)activity 2.3 Biotechnologies opens for four topics on Nanobiotechnologies.
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| Spanish scientists produce the smoothest surface ever created (Alpha Galileo)
A team of physicists from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA-Nanociencia) has created the "quantum stabilised atom mirror”, the smoothest surface ever.
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| 'Chips for life' Receive Substantial European Injection(Mesa+)
Tracking down cancer at a very early stage, studying cell growth, developing new medicines: future lab-on-a-chip systems will use nanoscale electrical fields to enable the detection and manipulation of cells and biomolecules.
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| Knockout nanoparticles fight infection (RSC)
Septicaemia causing bacteria take a blow from two different types of antibacterial nanoparticles, made by scientists working independently in the UK and Korea.
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| "European Master in Molecular Imaging” Kick-off meeting
The aim of this event is to present Molecular Imaging research and developments in academia and industry through a series of conferences.
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| New FP7 Service on Article 169 Initiatives Online (Cordis)
CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, has launched a new service providing detailed information on the Article 169 Initiatives.
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| EU Project FAST-DOT Homes in on Laser Technology Research
Laser technology has revolutionised the world of medicine in ways never before thought of. More and more often the scalpel is giving way to a new generation of lasers. Now the FAST-DOT project, backed by the EU with EUR 10.1 million in financing, is underway to develop a new line of lasers for biomedical applications
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| Commission Starts Public Dialogue on Nanotechnologies
Nanotechnologies have enormous potential benefits for manufacturers, consumers, employees, patients and the environment.
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| Robert Langner wins 2008 Millennium Technology Prize
The 2008 Millennium Technology Prize was presented to Professor Robert Langer today in Helsinki for developing innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release.
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| European Master in Molecular Imaging EMMI - Applications in France open now!
The European master EMMI offers an interdisciplinary program dedicated to molecular imaging in all its multimodal aspects.
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| EU New Member States (NMS) Push for Integration
into European Micro Nano Research
The EC-funded MINOS-EURONET project has combined a series of methods to showcase Micro Nano Technology R&D Capabilities from New Member States for a better integration of their research activities into the European Research Area (ERA).
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| Synergy Between Biology and Physics Drives Cell-imaging Technology (Alpha Galileo)
The traditional division between the disciplines has found common ground in the effort to image cellular functions.
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| ENIAC Opens Nanoelectronics Call
The European Technology Platform on Nanoelectronics ENIAC opened a call for proposals on 8 May. Deadline 3 September 2008.
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| Europe ahead of US in Funding Nanotech Risk Research (CORDIS)
Europe invests nearly twice as much as the US in research addressing the potential risk of nanotechnologies, a report issued by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) indicates.
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| observatoryNANO Project kicks off in London
This FP7 Support Action will collate and analyze data regarding scientific and technological (ST) trends and economic realities and expectations, with due regard to ethical and societal issues, impacts on health, environment and safety, as well as regulation, standardization, and legislative issues.
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| Eindhoven University of Technology starts Institute for Complex Molecular Systems
Researchers from a wide range of disciplines at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) will be joining forces in the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS).
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| News from the NANOSAFE2 Project (VDI)
A news update of the European integrated project Nanosafe2 supported through the 6th framework programme for research and technological development of the European Commission has been published.
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| TU Delft Launches Bionanoscience Initiative
The TU Delft launches a new Bionanoscience Department, which will be part of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience.
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| Transnational Call for Collaborative Proposals in Nanoscience (DFG)
NanoSci-E+ is a body created specifically for the implementation of a transnational call for collaborative proposals in nanoscience wherein research agencies from 13 countries of the European Research Area (ERA) participate.
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| Creating smart, multifunctional materials - The INTELTEX project (Cordis)
Developing smart, multifunctional materials that can be used in protective clothing, medical applications and buildings is the goal of the EU-funded INTELTEX ('Intelligent multi-reactive textiles integrating nano-filler based CPC-fibres') project.
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| FP7 2008 Calls
The FP7 2008 call for proposals of the Theme 2 "Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology" (FP7-KBBE-2008) opens for the first time two topics on Nanobiotechnologies.
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| Transporting Gold Across Physical Boundaries (MPI)
Max Planck researchers create nanoparticles that move back and forth between water and oil.
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