Published every two years in print and on line, the OECD Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Scoreboard brings together internationally comparable indicators. It has become a widely used reference which combines statistical rigour with easy access and readability.
Dec 16th, 2009
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Scientists investigated the hybridization - the coupling and de-coupling - of two DNA-strands, which they introduced into living cells.
Dec 16th, 2009
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At the Ruhr University Bochum, the European Protein Research Institute PURE (Protein Research Unit Ruhr within Europe) is being set up with more than 37 million Euros state funding.
Dec 16th, 2009
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The American Filtration and Separations Society will hold its 23rd Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition on March 22-25, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
Dec 16th, 2009
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Researchers have now succeeded to finally experimentally demonstrate a mechanism of laser-driven beam generation that has been predicted by theorists long time ago.
Dec 16th, 2009
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European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire 'growing' technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising new avenue of research and industrial development in Europe.
Dec 16th, 2009
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Researchers were able to demonstrate that unconventionally small antibodies called nanobodies can modulate the properties of the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) with exquisite precision.
Dec 16th, 2009
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Scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry imaged the growth of protein-studded mineral surfaces with unprecedented resolution and provided a glimpse into how living systems engineer key structural materials.
Dec 16th, 2009
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U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced that both houses of Congress have passed the FY 2010 Omnibus Appropriations bill which includes $500,000 for the University at Albany's College of Nanoscience and Engineering.
Dec 16th, 2009
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A German-Spanish team of researchers has successfully provided the first comprehensive image of a minimal cell that triggers atypical pneumonia, Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
Dec 16th, 2009
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Just two months after the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) signed the Memorandum of Understanding in Paris with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Thales Group of Companies to set up a joint research laboratory, the three parties are meeting again in Singapore to inaugurate the CNRS-International-NTU-Thales Research Alliance (CINTRA) Laboratory at NTU.
Dec 16th, 2009
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The new projects will include developing unmanned, hovering aircraft for bridge inspections, a high-speed sorting system for recycling aerospace metals, and nanomaterials for advanced batteries, among other projects.
Dec 15th, 2009
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Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a nanolithographic technique that can produce high-resolution patterns of at least three different chemicals on a single chip at writing speeds of up to one millimeter per second.
Dec 15th, 2009
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Bacteria dance the electric slide, officially named electrokinesis by the USC geobiologists who discovered the phenomenon.
Dec 15th, 2009
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Ein Team um den LMU-Biophysiker Professor Dieter Braun untersuchte mit einem optischen Verfahren die Reaktionszeiten fuer die Kopplung zweier Straenge des Erbmolekuels DNA direkt in der Zelle.
Dec 15th, 2009
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The next event 'Chemical Nanotechnology Talks' will take place on January 26-27, 2010 in Frankfurt am Main on the topic 'Green Nano: Challenges of Sustainability'.
Dec 15th, 2009
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