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Xerox to Fund Green Innovation, Nanotechnology, MEMs and Imaging Fellowships at MIT

In an effort to drive further research in engineering fields such as green innovation, imaging and smart document technology, nanotechnology and MEMS, Xerox Corporation, through The Xerox Foundation, is providing a $1 mi...

10 Aug 2007

Researchers Directly Deposit Gold Nanoparticles in Suspension

The delivery, manipulation and assembly of functional materials such as metal nanoparticles into predefined architectures and patterns is of great interest in nanotechnology. Nanoscale patterns of nanoparticles have the ...

10 Aug 2007

Lab on a Chip for Diagnosing Oral Cancer

Finding out whether that unusual sore in your mouth is cancerous should become a lot faster and easier in the years ahead. Scientists supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part ...

9 Aug 2007

Caliper Life Sciences Introduces EZ Reader Series for In-house Kinase Profiling

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. has launched the Caliper LabChip EZ Reader Series, delivering a complete range of products for in-house kinase profiling. The series, which complements the existing LabChip 3000 system, Calipe...

9 Aug 2007

Switchable Adhesives May Find Use in Microelectromagnetics, Microfluidics or Even Drug Carriers That Can Drop Drug Bombs on Their Targets

Two surfaces stick together, separate, and stick together again—on command. This discovery by a team of researchers from the Universities of Sheffield (UK) and Bayreuth contradicts our day-to-day experience. In the...

25 Jul 2007

Self Cleaning Surfaces, Transparent Electronics and Biomedical Tools From New Dirt Repelling, Conductive Nano Fibres

Tiny plastic fibers could be the key to some diverse technologies in the future -- including self-cleaning surfaces, transparent electronics, and biomedical tools that manipulate strands of DNA. In the June issue of t...

29 Jun 2007

Collaboration To Produce Prototype Diagnostic Device

Acrongenomics, Inc., Molecular Vision Ltd. and Pearson Matthews Ltd., announce today that they have joined forces to design a fully-manufacturable, prototype, point-of-care medical diagnostic device suitable for detectin...

28 Jun 2007

Nanotechnology Research Is Turning Insects Into Flying Cyborgs For Environmental Monitoring and Security Surveillance

It's not science fiction, it's real. Researchers from Cornell University are implanting nanotechnology based microfluidic devices in insects before they hatch into fully grown flying creatures. When they emerg...

22 Jun 2007

Miniaturised, Automatic Cancer Diagnosis From The FISH on a Chip

For the first time an important diagnostic test for cancer has been miniaturized and automated onto a microfluidic chip by a team of University of Alberta researchers in Edmonton, Canada. This new technology opens up ...

20 Jun 2007

Novel Nanomachining Process for Nanoscale Devices

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered a novel nanomachining process that will help manufacturers produce superior nanoscale devices to perform import...

18 Jun 2007