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Shift in Enzyme's Function Expands Toolbox for Engineering Biofuels and Other Oil Products

If your experiment doesn't go the way you expect, take a closer look - something even more interesting may have happened. That strategy has led scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory to discover a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant-based oil products.

9 Sep 2008

EUREKA Program Funds Innovative Research on Neural Nanomachines

ASU can now shout the classic exclamation of discovery - "Eureka!" - twice. Fueled by a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health called the EUREKA program, two ASU teams have received million-doll...

9 Sep 2008

Promising Pre-Clinical Data Treating Liver Cancer Using siRNA

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced today that one of its collaborators, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has presented promising pre-clinical data treating liver cancer using small interfering RNA (siRNA) ...

9 Sep 2008

Exciting Advances in the Ability to Work at the Atomic Level to be Unveiled at nanotxUSA'08

Among the more dramatic tools to be demonstrated during International Nanotechnology Week at the Hyatt Regency Dallas convention hotel October 2-3 is by InsituTec Inc, a Nano-Tool company commercializing an innovative pl...

9 Sep 2008

Using Neutron-Computed Tomography Techniques, Scientist Measure in-Situ Water Content

The McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center (MNRC) in Sacramento, CA was developed by the U.S. Air Force to detect corrosion and defects in aircraft structure using an imaging technique called neutron radiography. This techni...

9 Sep 2008

Superlattice Power Successfully Produced High Purity Nano Cathode Material

Superlattice Power, Inc., emerging leader in the development and marketing of the next generation of lithium-powered batteries worldwide, proudly announces its North Carolina production facility has successfully produced...

9 Sep 2008

When It Comes to Polarization, Both Size and Location Matter

How small is too small to be useful? Researchers at North Carolina State University have done nanoscale analysis on ferroelectric thin films – materials that are used in electronic devices from computer memories to...

9 Sep 2008

New Area of Fullerene Chemistry Important to the New Field of Nano-Electronics

Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of molecular semiconductors and quantum computing applications. Dorn plays with th...

9 Sep 2008

Findings Throw a Monkey Wrench in the Machinery of Future Nanoelectronics

Combining ordinary electronics with light has been a potential way to create minimal computer circuits with super fast information transfer. Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden and the University of Maryland in...

9 Sep 2008

Antimicrobial Peptide Nanoparticles with Potential Therapeutic Properties

Researchers in Florida are reporting an advance toward tapping the enormous potential of an emerging new group of antibiotics identical to certain germ-fighting proteins found in the human immune system.

8 Sep 2008

NanoFan to Distribute Industrial Nanotech's Product Line in United Arab Emirates

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that NanoFan General Trading, a company that specializes in industrial solutions to petrochemical facilities and other heavy industr...

8 Sep 2008

Planar Acquires Manufacturing Rights for New Generation of Lithium Ion Batteries Based on Nanotechnology

In a licensing agreement with Policell Technologies Inc. of Metuchen, N.J., Orlando, Florida-based Planar Energy Devices Inc. (Planar) has acquired technology and manufacturing rights for a new generation of safe large f...

8 Sep 2008

Atomic-Scale, 3-D Imaging and Analysis Complements Capabilities of Chalmers' World-Class Research Center

FEI Company and Imago Scientific Instruments jointly announced today that Chalmers University has installed Imago's LEAP® 3000X HR® atom probe in the university's Applied Physics Microscopy and Microanalysis facility, based in Goteborg, Sweden.

8 Sep 2008

Researchers Developed New Method for Producing GOld Nanorods for Biomedical Applications

Gold nanoparticles are under consideration for a number of biomedical applications, such as tumor treatment. A German-American research team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Hunter College in New York, and the RWTH Aachen has now developed a new method for the production of nanoscopic gold rods.

8 Sep 2008

Bosch Establishes Regional Headquarters for Research and Advance Engineering in Singapore

The Bosch Group, a leading German global supplier of technology and services, establishes their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters for Research and Advance Engineering in Singapore. This "Research and Technology Cen...

8 Sep 2008

Nanotechnology News

Shift in Enzyme's Function Expands Toolbox for Engineering Biofuels and Other Oil Products

EUREKA Program Funds Innovative Research on Neural Nanomachines

Promising Pre-Clinical Data Treating Liver Cancer Using siRNA

Exciting Advances in the Ability to Work at the Atomic Level to be Unveiled at nanotxUSA'08

Using Neutron-Computed Tomography Techniques, Scientist Measure in-Situ Water Content

Superlattice Power Successfully Produced High Purity Nano Cathode Material

When It Comes to Polarization, Both Size and Location Matter

New Area of Fullerene Chemistry Important to the New Field of Nano-Electronics

Findings Throw a Monkey Wrench in the Machinery of Future Nanoelectronics

Antimicrobial Peptide Nanoparticles with Potential Therapeutic Properties

NanoFan to Distribute Industrial Nanotech's Product Line in United Arab Emirates

Planar Acquires Manufacturing Rights for New Generation of Lithium Ion Batteries Based on Nanotechnology

Atomic-Scale, 3-D Imaging and Analysis Complements Capabilities of Chalmers' World-Class Research Center

Researchers Developed New Method for Producing GOld Nanorods for Biomedical Applications

Bosch Establishes Regional Headquarters for Research and Advance Engineering in Singapore

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