The Ben Franklin Venture Investment Forum (BFVIF) in conjunction with the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (BFTP) announces the Big Idea Business Plan Contest.The grand prize of $100,000 will be awarded to one technology-oriented company start or further develop the business in Pennsylvania.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreThis year's group of finalists includes undergraduate and graduate students from across the country whose inventions show practical applications to meet pressing needs in our society.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreThe international chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay today signs an agreement to become part of the research network of Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by IMEC (Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands).
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreCSC today announced that a wave of disruptive technologies is reshaping industry, triggering new business models and altering consumer and employee behaviors, according to a report issued by CSC?s Leading Edge Forum (LEF).
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreChemists at The Johns Hopkins University has created water-soluble electronic materials that spontaneously assemble themselves into 'wires'.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreHow does one make and measure a qubit? The problem has engaged scientists for years. Many arrangements have been proposed and some demonstrated, each with its advantages and disadvantages, including tricky schemes involving superconducting tunnel junctions, quantum dots, neutral atoms in optical lattices, trapped ions probed by lasers, and so on.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreUniversity of New South Wales' (UNSW) ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has again asserted its leadership in solar cell technology by reporting the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent effiency.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
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With a $1.6M grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, UC San Diego NanoEngineering professor Joseph Wang will lead a project to create a 'field hospital on a chip' that soldiers can wear on the battlefield.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
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A new proteomics project promises to revolutionize routine blood tests, vaccine development, cancer diagnostics, and many other important biomedical challenges.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
Read morePenn State will receive $5 million over four years from the National Science Foundation to establish a National Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK).
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreEight Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) nanomanufacturing technologies have won $8.4 million in funding from the Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
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A zinc oxide nanorod field-effect transistor (FET), the first of its kind as a nano device in China, was successfully fabricated by scientists with the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreThe Bio Meets Nano and IT conference in Oulu, Finland from December 9-11, 2008, brings together companies, organisations and research groups with the purpose of enhancing international and interdisciplinary business collaboration in the fields of life sciences, micro- and nanotechnology and information technology.
Posted: Oct 22nd, 2008
Read moreVladimir Torchilin, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University?s Bouve College of Health Sciences, was recently awarded a 5-year, $1.54 million grant from the National Institutes of Health?s (NIH) National Cancer Institute to investigate ways to increase the efficacy of nanocarrier-based pharmaceuticals for drug and gene therapy.
Posted: Oct 22nd, 2008
Read moreEuropean researchers have developed highly sensitive ultrasound equipment that can detect tiny quantities of reflective microbubbles engineered to stick to specific tumour cells.
Posted: Oct 22nd, 2008
Read moreAn international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom.
Posted: Oct 22nd, 2008
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