Technical Proceedings of the 2004 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Volume 1,, Chapter 1: ,Bio Nano Systems and Chemistry,Forisomes: MechanoProteins that Exert Force in Contraction and Expansion ,M. Knoblauch, G.A. Noll, D. Prüfer, H. Jaag, M.E. Fontanellaz, I. SchneiderHüther, A.J.E. van Bel and W.S. Peters,Fraunhofer Institute IME, DE,,Development of a SelfAssembled MusclePowered Piezoelectric Microgenerator,J. Xi, E. Dy, MT Hung and C. Montemagno,UCLA, US,,Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields Trigger Intracellular Signals in Human Lymphocytes,P.T. Vernier, Y. Sun, L. Marcu, C.M. Craft and M.A. Gundersen,University of Southern California, US,,Viruses as Optical Probes,ES Kwak, C. Chen, C. Cheng Kao, W.L. Schaich and B. Dragnea,University of Indiana, US,,pH Dependent Optical Properties of Surface Modified Gold Nanoparticles Using a Bovine Serum Albumin Coating,Y. Xu, K.A. Linares, K. Meehan, B.J. Love and N.G. Love,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US,,Internalization of Nanoparticles in the Middle Ear Epithelium in Response to an External Magnetic Field: Generating a Force,K. Dormer, C. Seeney, A. Mamedov and F. Mondalek,University of Oklahoma, Coll. of Med., US,,High Throughput insilico Screening against Flexible Protein Receptors,H. Merlitz and W. Wenzel,Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, DE,,Chapter 2: ,Bio Nano Analysis and Characterization,Overview of Overlapping Bio and Nano Technologies,S. Iyer,LANL, US,,Detection of DNA Hybridyzation with Impedance Amplifying Labels,KS Ma, H. Zhou, A. Fischetti, J. Zoval and M. Madou,University of California, Irvine, US,,Functional Nanoarrays for Protein Biomarker Profiling,M. Lynch, C. Mosher, J. Huff, S. Nettikadan, J. Xu and E. Henderson,BioForce Nanosciences, Inc., US,,An ChipbasedInstant Protein Micro Array Formation and Detection System,FG Tseng, C.E. Ho,