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Shrink Nanotechnologies Enters Final Design Phase of Stem Cell Culturing Product

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc., an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the alternative energy industry, medical diagnostics and sensors, and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that it is entering the final phase of its commercialization program for its first cell culturing devices for the StemDisc family of stem cell culturing products.

From Shrink Nanotechnologies 18 Sep 2010

Researcher Awarded ERC Starting Grant for Artificial Cell Membrane Research

Researcher Pascal Jonkheijm of the MESA+ research institute at the University of Twente has won a €1.5 million individual ERC Starting Grant. He will be using the grant over the next five years for research work creating artificial cell membranes on microchips so that, among other things, he can measure how living cells communicate with each other.

17 Sep 2010

NIH Funding Supports Development of Nanopore Strand Sequencing Method

For Immediate Release – Scripps Research Institute Professor Reza Ghadiri, Ph.D., has been awarded a four-year, $5.1 million grant as part of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to spur the development...

17 Sep 2010

Shrink Nanotechnologies Files Patent Applications for CellAlign Platform

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc., an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the alternative energy industry, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that certain patent applications related to its advanced tissue engineering technology platform, CellAlign™, have been filed.

From Shrink Nanotechnologies 17 Sep 2010

Researchers Successfully Loaded Biological Molecules onto "Nanosprings"

Researchers at Oregon State University have reported the successful loading of biological molecules onto “nanosprings” – a type of nanostructure that has gained significant interest in recent years for ...

16 Sep 2010

Nano-Sized Vehicle Delivering Chemotherapy Drugs Directly into Cancer Cells

Now, a new way to deliver this life-saving therapy to cancer patients—getting it straight to the source of the disease—has been developed by Dan Peer and Rimona Margalit and their colleagues at Tel Aviv University.

16 Sep 2010

New Method for Predicting How Nanoparticles will Interact with Biological Systems

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a method for predicting the ways that nanoparticles will interact with biological systems – including the human body. Their work could have implications...

16 Sep 2010

Therapeutic Cell Engineering with Surface-Conjugated Synthetic Nanoparticles

Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only when patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cell...

16 Sep 2010

Bioorthogonal Chemistry Amplifies Nanoparticle Binding and Enhances Sensitivity of Cell Detection

One of the most promising characteristics of nanoparticles as diagnostic agents is the ability to attach to the nanoparticles surface any of a wide variety of targeting molecules that can increase the distinction between...

16 Sep 2010

New Microscope Provides High Resolution Images of Living Cells

By constructing a microscope apparatus that achieves resolution never before possible in living cells, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have illuminated the molecular interactions that occur during one of the most important "trips" in all of biology: the journey of individual messenger Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules from the nucleus into the cytoplasm (the area between the nucleus and cell membrane) so that proteins can be made.

16 Sep 2010