http://www.azonano.com/nanotechnology-news.asp?catid=18 The Latest Lab on a Chip News and Research en Copyright 2001-2009, AZoM.com Pty Ltd IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, ... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14696 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers in Rice University's new BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) a $2 million Grand Opportunity (GO) grant to develop a fast, in... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14523 It's no bigger than a stamp packet but it has the potential to allow rapid development of a new generation of drugs and genetic engineering organisms, and to better control in-vitro fertilizat... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14496 It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Ch... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14271 Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanfo... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14137 Scientists at the University of Toronto have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technique that analyses tiny samples of blood and breast tissue to identify women at risk of breast cancer much m... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14032 Today, IMEC unveils the second generation of its ADRES processor architecture (architecture for dynamically reconfigurable embedded systems). ADRES now supports multithreading, and has doubled its p... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13986 IMEC, Europe's largest independent research centre on nanoelectronics and ANSEM, the IMEC spinoff specialized in analog and mixed-signal design, announce a collaboration to offer services for the cust... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13985 SFC Fluidics, LLC, a privately-held company located in Fayetteville, Arkansasrecently announced it has received a contract for approximately $5 million from the Congressionally Directed Me... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13907 Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a c... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13792 A*STAR's Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) awarded S$12.2m to fund 17 research projects in the areas of media + entertainment, medical technologies, education, water, infocom... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13610 Researchers in Singapore are reporting development of a new electronic sensor that shows promise as a faster, less expensive, and more practical alternative than tests now used to detect DNA. ... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13329 Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers ... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13312 A hand-held device which could offer point-of-care blood cell analysis in doctors' surgeries is being developed by academics at the University of Southampton and is described in a paper in Lab... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13300 In a new approach to an effective "electronic tongue" that mimics human taste, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of a small, inexpensive, lab-on-a-chip sensor that quickly and a... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13180 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has adopted the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer system to teach high sc... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=13131 Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer an... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=12949 Scientists in New York and North Carolina are reporting assembly of the first functioning prototype of an artificial Golgi organelle. That key structure inside cells helps process and package ... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=12867 Many of the new techniques based on nanotechnology that have been developed for faster and more sensitive detection of pathogens fail in day-to-day clinical use because they require complex sa... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=12862 Music, rather than electromechanical valves, can drive experimental samples through a lab-on-a-chip in a new system developed at the University of Michigan. This development could significant... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=12737