Sperm cell release can be triggered by tightening the grip around the delivery organ, according to a team of nano and microsystems engineers and plant biologists at the University of Montreal and Concordia University.
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NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being applied in the Chemical Engineering Department of the California Institute of Technology to study nanoparticle-based therapeutics being developed for the treatment of illnesses such as dementia and Alzheimer's.
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Pharmaco-Kinesis Corporation (PKC), developer of a pre-commercialized smart implantable pump for localized cancer-fighting drug delivery, today announced its first commercialized offering, the first-generation Nano-Impedance Biosensor (NIB).
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Veritas Bio, LLC, a privately held biotechnology company is pleased to announce that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the USPTO for Patent Application No. 12/514,237, “In Vivo Delivery Of Double Stranded RNA To a Target Cell”.
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Remedium Technologies Inc., a medical device company developing innovative products to control severe hemorrhaging, was awarded a $500,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foun...
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A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops.
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JEOL Resonance (Akishima City, Tokyo) has developed a new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) super conducting magnet that operates on a minimum amount of liquid helium.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, and Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a leading life sciences company, have signed a definitive agreement under which Thermo Fishe...
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A new class of drugs for the treatment of severe diseases such as cancer and autoimmune diseases is developed by the start-up Bicycle Therapeutics. The company is generating bicyclic peptides that can selectively bind disease-related proteins and to modulate their function without affecting other proteins in the body.
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Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a "nanosponge" capable of safely removing a broad class of dangerous toxins from the bloodstream – including toxins produced by MRSA, E. coli, poisonous snakes and bees. These nanosponges, which thus far have been studied in mice, can neutralize "pore-forming toxins," which destroy cells by poking holes in their cell membranes.
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