The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee today criticises the food industry for failing to be transparent about its research into the uses of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials.

Controllable quantum systems that allow us to better understand complex physical processes are now within reach.

Proteins are the most important molecules inside our body. There are thousands of proteins in a single cell alone and they control our physiological reactions, metabolism, cellular information flow, defense mechanisms - pretty much everything. No wonder then that most human diseases are related to the malfunctioning of particular proteins. In contrast to gene therapy - where a gene is placed inside a cell to either replace a defective gene or to increase the amount of a specific gene in order to produce a higher amount of a desired protein - protein therapy works by directly delivering well-defined and precisely structured proteins into the cell to replace the dysfunctional protein. The problem with protein therapy, which limits its practical use in medicine, is the mode of delivery. Scientists have now demonstrated a general, effective, low-toxicity intracellular protein delivery system based on single-protein nanocapsules.

The Southampton centre will focus on photonics, the science and application of light using optical fibres to revolutionise the internet and telecommunications. Other centres at the universities of Loughborough and Brunel will concentrate on regenerative medicine and liquid metals.

With an advanced microscopy technique, researchers headed by Frank Winkler of the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Munich have followed the different stages of metastases formation in real time. In the course of their work, they also found the processes that lead to a 'dead end' for the cancer cells, meaning that no metastases form.

Biologists at the University of Freiburg, Germany, around Lecturer Dr. Wolfgang Frank und Professor Dr. Ralf Reski from the Chair Plant Biotechnology have discovered that such micro RNAs also come into direct contact with genes, effectively turning off the genes in the process.

Qualcomm Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today announced that the Company is working closely with foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on 28 nanometer process technology.

Seit 2002 kommen beim Forum Mikroskopietrends jaehrlich Wissenschaftler und Entwickler zur Diskussion aktueller Mikroskopiekonzepte zusammen. Das Forum Mikroskopietrends ist eine etablierte Kontakt- und Diskussions-Plattform der deutschen Mikroskopieszene mit anerkannter hoher inhaltlicher Qualitaet.

Initially, GLOBALFOUNDRIES intends to provide Qualcomm with access to leading-edge 45nm Low Power and 28nm technologies with an intended collaboration on future advanced process nodes.

Toshiba Corp. has announced an expanded line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) including the industry's first 128-gigabyte Half-Slim /mSATA SG Series SSD modules ideally suited for a variety of applications including mini-mobile/netbook PCs, and a third generation, high performance HG3 Series featuring higher performance read/write SSDs.