Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
An ancient Confucian philosopher once said, 'I love the lotus because while growing from mud, it is unstained.' Now, almost one thousand years since Zhou Dunyi wrote these lines in China, scientists finally understand how the plant keeps itself clean and dry. It took an ultra high speed camera, a powerful microscope and an audio speaker to unlock a secret that has puzzled scientists for ages.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Scientists who study RNA have faced a formidable roadblock: trying to examine RNA's movements in a living cell when they can't see the RNA. Now, a new technology has given scientists the first look ever at RNA in a live bacteria cell - a sight that could offer new information about how the molecule moves and works.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
The DEK team is currently looking forward to showcasing an extensive range of innovative technologies from Stand A2.405 at this year's Productronica exhibition, including its newly re-energized Horizon platform.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with IEEE, is inviting university and collegiate student teams currently engaged in microrobotic, microelectronic or MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) research to participate in the 2010 NIST Mobile Microrobotics Challenge.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
A background paper on nanotechnology by Germany's Federal Environment Agency earlier this week triggered fearful headlines in some of the country's biggest newspapers. But the agency is now distancing itself from the coverage.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Chopra will address nanotechnology conference on using technology to solve environmental, energy, water, food security, and health problems in developing nations
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Tegal Corporation, an innovator of specialized production solutions for the fabrication of advanced MEMS, power ICs and optoelectronic devices, today announced it has received an order for a Tegal 110 S/DE DRIE tool from a leading provider of advanced systems and technologies products.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., recently received a $500,000 technology grant from the Dutch government for solar research and development.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Recently a group of researchers at The Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen succeeded in producing an artificial enzyme that points the way to enzymes tailor-made for any application.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Cell and development biologists can now use the sophisticated functions of the Zeiss AxioVision software, such as the enhancement of fluorescence signals and the suppression of image noise, to support their FRET investigations. The new features are found in the physiology module of the AxioVision 4.7 microscopy software and make FRET experiments easier and simpler.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a molecular barcoding detection system, today announced that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is employing its nCounter Analysis System at two of its core labs.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
The biological safety of nanotechnology, in other words, how the body reacts to nanoparticles, is a hot topic. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed for the first time to carry out successful experiments involving the injection of so-called nanowires.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Das Umweltbundesamt fasst in einem Hintergrundpapier relevante Aspekte ueber Umweltentlastungspotentiale zusammen, benennt Risiken fuer Mensch und Umwelt und formuliert Handlungsempfehlungen.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
New equity investment fund to invest in high potential healthcare technology companies; Supports GE's global Healthymagination initiative, focusing on cost, access and quality.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems used to control the positions of satellites and planetary probes.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Medical Electronics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have developed a new test process for cancer drugs. With the help of microchips, they can establish in the laboratory whether a patient's tumor cells will react to a given drug.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Dr. Regina Hoffmann vom Physikalischen Institut des KIT untersucht die Struktur und die elektronischen Eigenschaften von Nanokontakten in der Nanoelektronik und konnte fuer ihr Projekt erstmals fuer Karlsruhe einen begehrten ERC Starting Grant des European Research Council einwerben.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
A small molecule designed to detect cyanide in water samples works quickly, is easy to use, and glows under ultraviolet or 'black' light.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
The new building will house a new scanning probe microscope that measures spin-polarized electrons on surfaces.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
JEOL, a global leader in the development and manufacture of scanning and transmission electron microscopes, introduces ClairScopetm, a first-of-its kind correlative microscopy tool that combines a high-end Light Microscope (LM) with a high-resolution Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope (ASEM).
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
2 grand prize winners have innovations related to cell engineering and tools for quadriplegics.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
The study has evaluated performance, process variability, and cost differences between FinFETs fabricated with junction isolation on bulk silicon wafers, and FinFETs fabricated on SOI wafers.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly advanced functions.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
CVD Equipment Corporation, announced today that SuperPower, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., took delivery of a second Reel-to-Reel MOCVD deposition system for the production of its second-generation high temperature superconductor (2G HTS) wire that is being provided to organizations around the world for application to products in the fields of energy and medical technologies, transportation, science and research, space, military and general industry.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes could have beneficial effects in agriculture.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
With would-be goblins and ghosts set to drape those huge fake spider webs over doorways and trees for Halloween, scientists in Wyoming are reporting on a long-standing mystery about real spider webs: It is the secret of spider web glue.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
Carl Zeiss is launching new systems for optical sectioning during the annual Society for Neuroscience's Neuroscience 2009 meeting to be held in Chicago from October 17th to October 21st.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
The EC-funded SmartHEALTH Integrated Project to present its latest results at a booth and a dedicated workshop at ComPaMed, Dusseldorf, 18th-20th Nov 2009.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
A new thermal oxidation process from Rehm Thermal Systems has eliminated the challenge of residue contamination from photovoltaic metallization.
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Posted on: Oct 21st, 2009
A powerful new biosensor developed by European researchers will help identify cells in the immune system that actively suppress tumour growth, then put them to use. Enlisting the patient's own immune system would be like sending reinforcements for resistance fighters.
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