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Development of chemical probes for human biology gets push with $86 million grant

Researchers at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT today announced that they have been chosen to receive a six-year, $86M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify and develop molecular tools known as 'small molecules', which can probe the proteins, signaling pathways and cellular processes that are crucial to human health and disease.

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Georgia Tech's Mostafa El-Sayed wins Medal of Science

Mostafa El-Sayed, Regents Professor in Georgia Tech?s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has just been awarded the 2007 Medal of Science, the nation?s highest honor in the field.

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Nanonets made from nanowires improve performance of electronics and energy applications

Using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, Boston College chemists have produced nanonets, a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that multiplies surface area critical to improving the performance of the wires in electronics and energy applications.

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Electroplating process for soldering nanowires wins a 2008 Nano 50 award

A new electroplating process that simultaneously joins many silicon nanowires to many prepatterned electrodes was selected for a 2008 Nano 50 Award by Nanotech Briefs.

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New discoveries show promise in fight against hepatitis C

Using a novel technique, medical and engineering researchers at Stanford University have discovered a vulnerable step in the virus? reproduction process that in lab testing could be effectively targeted with an obsolete antihistamine.

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SRC and NSF aim at ground-breaking solutions for multi-core chip technology

Joint research by Semiconductor Research Corporation and National Science Foundation aims at ground-breaking solutions for problems challenging the electronics industry.

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New genetic engineering system eliminates need for antibiotics and resistance genes

Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) have developed a system that eliminates the need for antibiotics and resistance genes in the engineering of industrial and medical products.

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NSF grant for MEMS umbrella-shaped actuator for medical applications

The objective of the research is to design, fabricate and test an umbrella-shaped micro-actuator based on an integrated micro/nanofabrication technique for thrombus retrieval in stroke therapy.

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2008 EPS CMD Europhysics Prize awarded to Geim and Novoselov

The European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division is proud to announce the award of the 2008 EPS CMD Europhysics Prize to Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester for discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties.

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NANO KOREA war fuer deutsche Unternehmen erfolgreich - Automobiltechnik ein Thema

Im Rahmen der NANO KOREA hat IVAM, Fachverband fuer Mikrotechnik, am 28. August 2008 den dritten Korean-German Micro/Nano-Business Workshop durchgefuehrt.

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Nature inspires new highly specific drugs and organic products

Scientists now realise that the precise molecular arrangements within natural pathways in organisms have been highly tuned for specific processes and provide both compounds that can be exploited directly and vital information over how to synthesise new products by mimicking biochemical processes.

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IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab as a cost-effective silicon photonics prototyping service

IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab, the continuation of their successful multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service started in 2006.

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Chinese scientists develop new approach for early diagnosis of cancer

A research project entitled 'A real-time analysis of the early diagnosis of cancer markers', undertaken by the CAS Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, recently passed the acceptance check by an expert team under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

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Chinese researchers experimentally demonstrate method of quantum coding to overcome qubit loss error

For the first time ever, the group experimentally demonstrates a method of quantum coding to overcome the qubit loss error, a kind of decoherence especially prevailing in photonic quantum computation.

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Nuclear engineering education will be boosted at Rensselaer with new grants

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission awarded two grants totaling $850,000 to boost nuclear engineering education, research, and workforce development at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging Forum will present at the 2nd Electronic System-Integration Technology Conference

The Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging (WLCSP) Forum today announced it will participate in the 2nd Electronic System-Integration Technology Conference (ESTC) in Greenwich, London, UK, from September 1 through 4, 2008.

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