A guide to the latest in nanoscience and technology research from the team that brings you Materials Today.
August 2006
Cover story: Probing drug-cell interactions
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has become a ubiquitous tool for the imaging of nanoscale structures and estimation of the mechanical characteristics of biological entities ranging from DNA to tissue. This issue’s cover story details advances in AFM that enable in situ investigations of drug-induced changes in cell structure, membrane stability, and receptor interaction forces.
Krystyn J. Van Vliet and Peter Hinterdorfer
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Features
Nanoindentation of biological materials
Nanoindentation is emerging as a powerful technique for the measurement of mechanical properties in mineralized and soft tissues, as well as other biomaterials.
Donna M. Ebenstein and Lisa A. Pruitt
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Cellular responses to a nanofibrous environment
Developments in probing and engineering nanofibrous
extracellular environments at the cellular and molecular level
will guide the development of tissue engineering scaffolds.
Y.-C. Toh, S. Ng, Y. M. Khong, X. Zhang, Y. Zhu, P.-C. Lin,
C.-M. Te, W. Sun, and H. Yu
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Seeing the nanoscale
Imagery is playing an important role as nanotechnology matures by making the invisible world of the nanoscale comprehensible and familiar.
David S. Goodsell
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Comment
Reactions in hand
Digitally controlled microreactors are providing chemists with a new playground for discovery.
Guodong Sui and Hsian-Rong Tseng
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Microfluidic assays in practice
While microfluidics promises much for streamlining biological assays, the problem of sample deposition must first be solved.
Pankaj Vadgama
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Research news
Includes...
• Nanotubes go the hole way
• Sorting out nanotubes
• Microtubules steered in the right direction
• Bonding with nanoparticles
• Tumor protease triggers self assembly
 
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