A recent review gives an up-to-the-minute round-up of how mesoporous silica nanoparticles are used to deliver drugs into cells.
Carol Stanier
Focussed Nanopatterning
Scientists develop a simple way to organise nanoparticles on a surface without the need to first alter the surface.
Dimensionally Different: Complex Patterned Photoresists
Scientists in the USA have exploited all three dimensions of patterned photoresists, to make complex components using just one template.
Magnetic Micromachines
Chinese researchers have used lasers to made tiny springs and turbines out of a polymerized ferrofluid, which could be used in micro- or nanomachines.
Hot-Spot-Light on Cells
Keep an eye on single cells with a new fluorescence imaging technique which gives a high resolution image of a surface using nanoislands.