NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, reports on the work of Professor Tuan Vo-Dinh's group at Duke University where they apply Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) to characterize metal nanoparticle construct materials for use in biosensing, imaging and cancer therapy.
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Dr. Vo-Dinh presented a plenary lecture entitled “Nanosensors and Nanoprobes: Monitoring Health at the Gene and Single Cell Level” at the 5th IEEE international Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED 2011), Jeju Island, South Korea, December 9-12, 2011.
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Dr. Vo-Dinh received the 2011 Award on Spectrochemical Analysis from the American Chemical Society (ACS), Analytical Chemistry Division. The award is given to individual for advancing the fields of spectrochemical analysis and optical spectrometry in one or more of the following:
- Conceptualization and development of unique instrumentation that has made a significant impact on the field.
- Development of novel and important instrumentation.
- Elucidation of fundamental events or processes important to the field.
- Authorship of important research papers and/or books that have had an influential role in the development of the field and in the use of chemical instrumentation.
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The United States still leads the world in the number and importance of patentable inventions; last year alone, close to 500,000 patent applications were filed in this country. (Of course, many U.S. patent applications are filed by inventors living abroad.) In our current newsletter, the Vilcek Foundation illustrates a less well-known aspect of inventorship – the contribution of immigrants to inventions created in the US. As an immigrant and a patent holder myself, this is a topic very close to my heart.
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Scientists at Duke University have developed a new noninvasive optical technique that uses a laser to peer into the genetic material of cells, enabling the detection of early-stage cancer and other diseases.
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Tiny gold stars, smaller than a billionth of a meter, may hold the promise for new approaches to medical diagnoses or testing for environmental contaminants.
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Rods, cones, cubes and spheres -- move aside. Tiny gold stars, smaller than a billionth of a meter, may hold the promise for new approaches to medical diagnoses or testing for environmental contaminants.
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Researchers combine photonics and nanotechnology to improve drug development and disease detection.
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NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, reports on the work of Professor Tuan Vo-Dinh's group at Duke University where they apply Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) to characterize metal nanoparticle construct materials for use in biosensing, imaging and cancer therapy.
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As director of Duke University’s Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh is currently investigating how nanoprobes can be used to understand human cancers. He is one of the pioneers of nano-biosensors, and is now the author of the just-released "Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine: Methods, Devices, and Applications," a 790-page reference book…