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Microfibres Scaffolds for Peripheral Nerve Repair

Injuries to the peripheral nerves-those linking the central nervous system to the arms and legs of the body-lead to a loss of sensation and function in 1 in 1000 people. Unlike the nerves of the central nervous system, peripheral nerves can be repaired and regenerated, but this process is often incomplete and ineffective.

21 Oct 2008

MEMS for Implantable Medical Devices

Over the last 10 years, researchers and clinicians have begun to use microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), which combine electronics technology with tiny mechanical devices like sensors and valves embedded in semiconduc...

21 Oct 2008

Cell Printing Paving Way to Artificial Organs

Despite the success of organ transplantation surgery, many people in need of transplants die while on the waiting list because of the scarcity of donated organs. Artificial, lab-grown organs offer one potential solution ...

21 Oct 2008

Challenges for Thin Film Flexible Displays and Electronics

Imagine a miniature television or computer screen that scrolls out of a pen-sized carrying case. Flexible displays like this are almost on the edge of commercial reality, but several challenges still must be overcome in ...

21 Oct 2008

Trapping Single Molecules Under a Microscope

Just as the perfect picture of a horse cannot convey the fluidity of it gallop, so does a frozen picture of DNA fail in describing its intricate dance. "These are wet, warm, squishy things," says Adam Cohen of Harvard University. They jiggle, they flap, they twist, they turn, and they randomly "walk" about.

21 Oct 2008

Providing Higher Level in Cell Culture Performance and Cost-Effectiveness

Millipore Corporation, a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools, and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced the release of a unique cell culture medium for generating three-dimensional, in vivo-like, epidermal keratinocyte models.

21 Oct 2008

Soft Lithography Produces Hard-to-Make Nanostructures

Fifty years of Moore's Law-driven reductions in electronic-circuit features sizes are pushing manufacturers toward molecular and atomic dimensions of less than a few nanometers. Unfortunately, it may be impossible or...

21 Oct 2008

Researchers Pioneered the Use of Beams of Buckyballs

Once computer chip manufacturers have made their multi-layered structures, it is also necessary for them to verify precisely that the layers are composed in the proper way. One way of doing this is to shoot beams of ions which, like meteorites striking the Moon, eject material that can be characterized using mass spectrometry, providing information about subsurface layering.

21 Oct 2008

Secret Lives of Carbon Nanotubes

The recent advent of transmission electron microscopes with integrated scanning probe microscope sample stages is permitting unprecedented nanoscale observation and analysis of materials. Jianyu Huang of Sandia National ...

21 Oct 2008

Researchers Share "Oscar of Invention" for Nanoscale Imaging Microscope

R+D Magazine has recognized a tabletop microscope developed by a team of Colorado State University and Berkeley researchers at the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Science and Technology as one of the Top 100 most significant technological advances for 2008.

21 Oct 2008

TopChim Signs Research Agreement for Developing Polymer Nanoparticles

To extend its research and development projects on polymer nanoparticles, TopChim n.v. has signed an agreement with the "Institute for the promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders" (IWT) an...

21 Oct 2008

Thermo Fisher Scientific Releases Enhanced Software Features for K-Alpha XPS

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the release of new software features that enhance data quality and acquisition speed for multi-spectrum data handling. New software features enhance the CyberReady capabilities of the award-winning K-Alpha X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS).

21 Oct 2008

Core Capital's Electronics and Semiconductor Group Signs Agreement with Aurora Semiconductor

Core Capital's Electronics and Semiconductor Group (ESG), a specialty investment banking practice, signed an agreement with Aurora Semiconductor to assist them in finding and acquiring a facility to start the only U....

21 Oct 2008

UK Government's Technology Strategy Board to Invest in Cyclofluidic R+D

Pfizer Ltd and UCB today announced the formation of Cyclofluidic, a breakthrough technology company established with the aim of significantly accelerating the drug discovery process by allowing researchers to test a grea...

21 Oct 2008

Nanoparticles Withstanding Extreme Stress and Deformation

Because they are riddled with defects, bulk crystalline materials never achieve their ideal strength; nanocrystals, on the other hand, are so small there's no room for defects. Yet while nanocrystalline materials may approach ideal strength in their resistance to stress, most nanostructures have shown only a limited ability to withstand large internal strains before they fail.

21 Oct 2008