Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and The Scripps Research Institute (SRI) have developed an innovative technique to create cheap but highly stable chemicals that have the potential to take the place of the antibodies used in many standard medical diagnostic tests.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
EnerG2, a Seattle-based company focused on introducing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage breakthroughs, today announced an effort designed to help broaden the ultracapacitor market in Japan.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
BioAlliance Pharma SA, a company dedicated to the treatment and supportive care of cancer and AIDS patients, today announced that it will present its nanoparticle technology and the latter's advantages in therapeutic applications at the French-Norwegian Interdisciplinary Symposium on Nano and Micro Frontiers in Biology and Medicine.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough to place on a chip, according to Penn State engineers.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Using nanoparticles designed specifically to produce a bright Raman spectroscopic signal, a team of investigators has shown that it can simultaneously track as many as 10 different optical tags in a living animal.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
By combining a gold nanoparticle with a unique family of nucleic acids, researchers at Northwestern University have created a new type of intracellular reporting system that with a flash of light reveals the presence and quantity of a wide variety of biologically important molecules.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Nano- und Mikrotechnologien sowie Innovative Werkstoffe sind die Basis fuer die Produkte von morgen.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
By injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second zap of a laser, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a new type of therapy that effectively kills kidney tumors in nearly 80% of treated mice.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Nanoparticle delivery of diphtheria toxin-encoding DNA that expresses selectively in ovarian cancer cells reduced the burden of ovarian tumors in mice, and researchers expect that this therapy could be tested in humans with advanced ovarian cancer within 18 to 24 months.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Using a new type of paramagnetic nanoparticle and a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system built into a microfluidic device, a team of investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has created an assay system capable of detecting as few as two cancer cells in 1 microliter of biological fluid. In addition, the new assay requires little sample processing and produces results in less than 15 minutes.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
For cancer drug developers, finding an agent that kills tumor cells is only part of the equation. The drug also must spare healthy cells, and ideally its effects will be reversible to cut short any potentially dangerous side effects. Investigators from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report that they have assembled a new cancer drug delivery system that, in cell culture, achieves all of the above.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
This week's most interesting nanotechnology news.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
The Finland-Japan Workshop on Nanophotonics and Related Technologies will take place on 28 August 2009 at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT).
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Die ItN Nanovation AG hat ihre Produktlinie Nanocat an den langjaehrigen und bisher alleinigen Grossabnehmer BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH veraeussert. Damit konzentriert sich das Unternehmen kuenftig auf die Produktbereiche Nanocomp und CFM Systems.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Nanotechnologies are presented as providing unprecedented technological solutions, yet serous environmental risks and costs are being trivialised or ignored, the International Persistant Organic Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) argues in a new paper.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Associate Professor Lam Yeng Ming, a lecturer with the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), has been awarded one of the three inaugural L'Oreal Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowships 2009.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Was verbindet einen Lautsprecher, einen Sensor und drahtlose Energieuebertragung? Gemeinsam ist allen die Nutzung von Oberflaecheneffekten: Thermoakustische, kapazitive und induktive Effekte werden dabei durch Beschichtungen hervorgerufen oder kontrolliert.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Scientists in Singapore have been awarded S$27.5 million in research funding for 28 projects in four key areas of Sustainable Development, namely, Carbon Capture and Utilisation, BioEnergy and BioFuels, Sustainable Construction and Sustainable Materials.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
The nervous system's circuitry is linked together via intercellular junctions known as synapses, and signal transmission across these connections depends on neurotransmitters?specific chemicals that directly deliver excitatory or inhibitory signals from one neuron to another. Scientists are now able to monitor receptor activity in living cells with unprecedented precision.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Electrospray-deposited polymer films can be used to make organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with better characteristics than those made from spin-coated films.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
IBM scientists have been able to image the 'anatomy' - or chemical structure - inside a molecule with unprecedented resolution, using a complex technique known as noncontact atomic force microscopy.
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Posted on: Aug 28th, 2009
Picosun's year-on-year sales for its fiscal Q1rose by more than a third.
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Posted on: Aug 27th, 2009
A team of Brown University scientists has pinpointed why carbon nanotubes tend to block a critical signaling pathway in neurons. It's not the tubes, the team finds, but the metal catalysts used to form the tubes.
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Posted on: Aug 27th, 2009
A hybrid of silicon nanocircuits and biological components that mimics some of the processes that control the passage of molecules into and out of cells has been created by a team of scientists from UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC Berkeley.
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Posted on: Aug 27th, 2009
As China boosts solar energy to meet growing power demand and reduce dependence on imported fuels, Tianwei and Oerlikon Solar announced the completion of one of the mainland China's largest thin film solar panel factories.
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Posted on: Aug 27th, 2009
OBDUCAT AB, supplier of lithography solutions based on NanoImprint Lithography and Electron Beam Lithography, has won an order from the Russian Academy of Sciences for a NIL Eitre 6 system.
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Posted on: Aug 27th, 2009
University of Iowa researchers have modified siRNA so that it can be injected into the bloodstream and impact targeted cells while producing fewer side effects.
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Posted on: Aug 27th, 2009
Ener1, Inc. will take the lead among a group of investors that plans to inject $47 million of equity funding into Think Global AS, the Norwegian electric vehicle producer.
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Posted on: Aug 27th, 2009
Piezo system specialist PI has extended its E-616 multi-channel controller line for piezo based steering and stabilization mirror platforms.
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Posted on: Aug 27th, 2009
Untersuchungen zeigen, dass Metallofullerene geordnete supramolekulare Strukturen mit unterschiedlichen Orientierungen ausbilden. Durch gezielte Manipulation dieser Orientierungen koennten Daten gespeichert und wieder ausgelesen werden.
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