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Biosensors: Morpholino Offers You More

Molecular biologists and geneticists often use DNA microarrays to detect DNA, measure gene expression levels and detect the single-nucleotide polymorphisms that are responsible for various genetic diseases.

13 Oct 2010

Neuron Regeneration Using New Microchip Technology

Scientists have long sought the ability to regenerate nerve cells, or neurons, which could offer a new way to treat spinal-cord damage as well as neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.

12 Oct 2010

Biophysicists Find Electron Transport Through Bacterial Nanowires

Some bacteria grow electrical hair that lets them link up in big biological circuits, according to a University of Southern California biophysicist and his collaborators.

12 Oct 2010

European Researchers Develop New Molecular Diagnostic Technology for Cervical Cancer

Current cervical cancer screening is time consuming and expensive, but now new breakthrough technology developed by European researchers should allow large-range screening by non-medical personnel with almost immediate results and at a much lower cost.

11 Oct 2010

T2 Biosystems Honored for Nanotechnology-Based Medical Device Innovation

T2 Biosystems, Inc., a company developing the first point-of-care medical diagnostic products that enable rapid molecular and immunodiagnostic testing on a single instrument, today announced it has won the MedTech IGNITE...

11 Oct 2010

Thioketal Nanoparticles-Based Approach for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed a novel approach for delivering small bits of genetic material into the body to improve the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases.

11 Oct 2010

Use of Nanotopography for Stem Cell Differentiation

Many scientists aspire to take control over the stem cell differentiation process, so that we can grow organs and implants perfectly matched to each patient in the future. Now research in the Journal of Tissue Enginee...

8 Oct 2010

New Research Report on Nanobiotechnology Market

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Nanobiotechnologies- applications, markets and companies Summary Nanotechnology is the creation and utilization of materia...

6 Oct 2010

ACS Honors Two Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professors

Two Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professors have been named 2010 fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) and the Howard P. Iser...

From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5 Oct 2010

Scientists Design New DNA Mobius Strip Measuring 50 Nanometers

The enigmatic Möbius strip has long been an object of fascination, appearing in numerous works of art, most famously a woodcut by the Dutchman M.C. Escher, in which a tribe of ants traverses the form's single, never-ending surface.

5 Oct 2010