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Neowater Providing New Solubilization Service

Neowater provides a new solubilization service, which has significant value-added in drug-delivery applications due to increased stability of compounds solvated. P athogens evolve every day, and hence challenges met b...

21 Oct 2008

Events Give Students and Teachers Inside View of CNSE and Nanotechnology

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany today announced plans for the world's first celebration of "NANOvember," a month-long series of events and activities that showca...

21 Oct 2008

McMaster University Installs Most Advanced and Powerful Electron Microscope on the Planet

The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planet-capable of unprecedented resolution-has been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University. "We are the first...

21 Oct 2008

FDA Approves Revolutionary Cancer Drug for Children

The Cure Our Children Foundation, a nonprofit charitable foundation dedicated to children, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Orphan Drug Designation of the foundation's uni...

21 Oct 2008

New, More Powerful Analysis Software for Thin Films from HORIBA Scientific

HORIBA Scientific, the leading manufacturer of spectroscopic ellipsometers for research and industry, offers an advanced thin film characterization platform called DeltaPsi2.

From HORIBA 21 Oct 2008

NanoViricides Participates in WHO Meeting On Dengue Therapeutics

NanoViricides, Inc., said that it participated in a meeting of international experts on Dengue Therapeutics held by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), of the World Health Organiza...

From NanoViricides, Inc 20 Oct 2008

Spire and Shuttleworth to Complement XsunX TFPV Manufacturing System

XsunX, Inc., a solar technology company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Spire Corporation and Shuttleworth Inc., who will provide components to complement the company's TFPV manufacturing ...

20 Oct 2008

Investigating the Microscopic Structure of Quantum Gases

Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in rendering the spatial distribution of individual atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate visible. Bose-Einstein condensates are small, ultracold gas clouds which, due to their low temperatures, can no longer be described in terms of traditional physics but must be described using the laws of quantum mechanics.

20 Oct 2008

Los Alamos National Laboratory and STI Laboratory Sign Material Transfer Agreement

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI), a leading company in high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials and related technologies, and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announ...

From Los Alamos National Laboratory 20 Oct 2008

Microarray and Sequencing Data Analysis Now Available in a Single Package

Illumina, Inc. today introduced GenomeStudio Software, a primary analysis software program designed to analyze both microarray and sequencing data. For researchers, GenomeStudio Software enables the correlation of biological variation across multiple applications and graphical display of the results.

20 Oct 2008

Trinean Announces Closing of a 3.5 Million Euro Funding Round

Trinean NV announced the closure of a 3,5 million # round of financing. The round was co-lead by new investor Vesalius Biocapital and existing investor Capital-E. Trinean is a spin-off of the University of Ghent (Inte...

20 Oct 2008

EFSA Launches Public Consultation on Draft Opinion on Nanotechnology and Food and Feed Safety

EFSA is today launching a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion in relation to nanoscience and nanotechnologies and food and feed safety. Nanotechnologies involve the use of substances on a very small scale...

20 Oct 2008

LDK Solar to Supply Multicrystalline Solar Wafers to Helios Technology

LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, today announced that it has signed a seven-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Italy-based Helios Technology. Under the terms...

20 Oct 2008

Visualizing the Energy Gap in Semiconductor Materials

The special SESAM system, a high performance version of the LIBRA® 200 transmission electron microscope series from Carl Zeiss SMT, has been in use at the Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy (StEM) of the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research (MPI-MF) for the past 10 months.

20 Oct 2008

Atomic Hydrogen Key to Low Energy CO2 to Fuel Transformation

Carbon Sciences, Inc. (CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, today commented on the source of hydrogen and energy efficiency of its u...

20 Oct 2008