Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Disease diagnosis, toxin detection and more are possible with DNA-graphene nanostructure.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Cascade Microtech, Inc. today announced King Abdullah University of Science and Technology's selection of multiple probe stations to support measurements in the area of materials analysis, nano-technologies and semiconductor research.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
A nanomedicine research group led by a University of Toronto chemist has received a $5-million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), giving them the green light to develop faster ways of detecting leukemia and lung cancer cells.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Discovery of way to balance effects of 2 drugs sets stage for safer pain relief.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Researchers from North Carolina State University have learned how to consistently create hollow, solid and amorphous nanoparticles of nickel phosphide, which has potential uses in the development of solar cells and as catalysts for removing sulfur from fuel.
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Posted on: Sep 24th, 2009
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114.
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Posted on: Sep 24th, 2009
Piezo system specialist PI is switching to a new generation of 24-bit resolution, nanopositioning stage controllers.
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Posted on: Sep 24th, 2009
The University of Twente will contribute to the Enhanced Oil Recovery Exploratory Research Program (ExploRe) from the energy company BP.
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Posted on: Sep 24th, 2009
A two-day nanotechnology symposium will be held Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24 and 25, in the Whitaker Hall auditorium to highlight the opening of Washington University's nano research center.
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Posted on: Sep 24th, 2009
A comprehensive nationwide infrastructure for hydrogen refueling will be in place in Germany by 2015. This is the declaration of the landmark agreement signed on September 10.
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Posted on: Sep 24th, 2009
Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd., the market leader in X-ray metrology tools is pleased to announce the delivery of its JVX6200 XRR (X-Ray Reflectometry) metrology tool to a leading-edge HDD Hard Disk Drive vendor, used for quality control of its HDD head manufacturing process.
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Posted on: Sep 24th, 2009
At the 2009 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) in Montreal, Royal Philips Electronics and Bruker BioSpin, a division of Bruker Corporation, today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of Magnetic Particle Imaging scanners, a new imaging technology, for the preclinical market,
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Posted on: Sep 24th, 2009
Held in Edmonton, AB, Canada, and co-sponsored by TAPPI and the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, the conference revealed developments for revolutionizing paper and wood products, as well as capturing sustainability-focused markets with bionanocomposites and capitalizing on wood-derived nanocrystalline cellulose and nanofibrillar cellulose.
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Posted on: Sep 24th, 2009
Nanocoatings using Beneq's industrial ALD systems are applied to increase resistance to cracking.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
New findings show that tiny textures on a surface can produce big differences in how some materials, and even living cells, behave.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Researchers have developed technology to perform more than a thousand chemical reactions at once on a stamp-size, PC-controlled microchip, which could accelerate the identification of potential drug candidates for treating diseases such as cancer.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Two teams of researchers have developed versatile nanotechnology-enabled platforms that could get therapeutic genes safely and efficiently into cancer cells.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated carbon nanotubes that is capable of molecular mapping of lymphatic endothelial cells and detecting cancer metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic titanium dioxide nanoparticles bonded to antibodies.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Small pieces of nucleic acid known as short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, can turn off the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the more promising new classes of anticancer drugs in development.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
A high-performance optical bench, low-noise electronics and various wavelength range options make the NIRQuest Spectrometer from Ocean Optics versatile enough for NIR applications ranging from moisture detection and chemical analysis to high-resolution laser and optical fiber characterization.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
The researchers showed that they could detect the quantum correlations in the results of measurements of entangled quantum bits, using a superconducting electrical circuit.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
The Quantum Device Theory group led by Institute for Quantum Computing faculty member Dr. Frank Wilhelm will be sharing in a multi-institution grant to fund research into advanced materials for superconducting qubits.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Physicists trap atoms with light to probe high-temp superconductivity.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Summertime flies by when it is spent hard at work in a laboratory; but the 12 student researchers selected for Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) still had plenty of fun.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Natcore Technology Inc. reports that it has signed a Sponsored Research Agreement with Rice University to develop thin films incorporating silicon quantum dots.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Applied DNA Sciences, Inc., a provider of DNA-based security solutions, today announced that it can create botanical SigNature DNA markers that can individually mark valuables, and rare, limited edition collectibles that require a forensic level of security and authentication.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Mr. Lofgren is the Managing Director of ScanAsia Consulting Ltd., a management consulting and trading firm with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Imagine a gift wrapped in paper you really do treasure and want to carefully fold and save. That's because the wrapping paper lights up with words like Happy Birthday or Happy Holidays, thanks to a built in battery - an amazing battery made out of paper.
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