Oct 7 : A scientist is creating a modular, multi-functional drug delivery system that promises simultaneously to enhance the effectiveness and reduce undesirable side-effects of a number of different drugs.

Oct 1 : Duke University scientists, have by using enzymes from E. coli bacteria, introduced a hundred-fold improvement in the precision of features imprinted to create microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip.

September 25 : Scientists at Rice University claim that they have captured the first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside fruit flies by using near-infrared fluorescent imaging technique.

September 21 : A smart particle insulin release system that detects spikes in glucose and blood sugar levels, and releases insulin to counteract them has shown promising results in feasibility tests on animal models.

September 18 : A team of engineers from Brown University has discovered a novel, bone-growing material that may revolutionise orthopaedic implants.

Sept 16 : The kinky motion of a primitive spiral-shaped bacterium in fluid, could help design efficient micromachines of the future, a new study by German physicists from the Technical University Munich, has revealed.

Washington, September 13: Chemists at Rice University say that they have devised a technique to create tiny spheres comprising of dozens of molecules of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel by using gold nanoparticles

August 3: Researchers from the University of Delaware and Washington University in St. Louis have figured out how to train synthetic polymer molecules to behave–to literally “self-assemble”

July 16 : Scientist at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, is attempting to build artificial muscles using carbon nanofibres.

June 27 : Using nano-sized molecules to carry the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin to tumours improves the effectiveness of the drug, a new study by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing has found.