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Nanotechnology Helping Industry and Consumers Save Money

Nanotechnology has been the talk of science for creating new drug delivery systems and making electronics smaller, but a U.S. company, Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Ticker: INTK), has brought nanotech down to earth and made...

21 Apr 2009

Better Way to Deliver Cancer Drugs Directly to Tumors by Using Specially Engineered Nanoparticles

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology has demonstrated a better way to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors b...

20 Apr 2009

Nanoparticle Method Designed to Restore Normal Gene Function to Tumor Cells

Dr. Esther Chang describes the most recent developments in human trials of the first systemic, non-viral, tumor-targeted, nanoparticle method designed to restore normal gene function to tumor cells while completely bypas...

20 Apr 2009

Researchers Found Way to Make Transistors Smaller and Faster Using Self-Assembled Nanowires

Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to make transistors smaller and faster. The technique uses self-assembled, self-aligned, and defect-free nanowire channels made of gallium arsenide. In a...

20 Apr 2009

World's First Tandem Junction SunFab Thin Film Line Installed at Sunfilm's Germany Facility Achieves Factory Acceptance

Sunfilm, AG and Applied Materials, Inc., today announced that the world's first tandem junction SunFab Thin Film Line installed at Sunfilm's Grossroehrsdorf facility achieved factory acceptance on April 14, 2009.

From Applied Materials Inc. 20 Apr 2009

Bioanalysis Based on Nanomaterials Opens New Opportunities

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Biosensing Using Nanomaterials" to their offering. This book introduces novel concepts in the area of bioanalysis...

From Research and Markets 17 Apr 2009

Biohazard Water Analyzer Employs a Revolutionary Nanotechnology-Based Biosensor

Early WarningTM today displayed its Biohazard Water Analyzer which offers the next generation in microbial testing. Using a unique combination of advanced technologies, the Analyzer goes beyond lab culturing of indicator coliforms and directly measures individual species of pathogenic bacteria, protozoa and viruses in the same test.

17 Apr 2009

Nanotechnology Paving Way for Development of a Combined Diagnosis/Therapeutic Strategy

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists from the University of Leicester could be potentially paving the way for the development of a powerful new strategy for both the early diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

16 Apr 2009

Discovering How Carbon Nanotubes Work as Catalysts May Result in Cleaner Fuels

Among their many other interesting properties, carbon nanotubes have been found to act as catalysts for some important chemical reactions, including some that could be used to make cleaner fuels. But many unanswered questions remain about how this process works.

16 Apr 2009

Combining Nanoparticles with Scorpion Venom Cutting the Spread of Cancerous Cells

By combining nanoparticles with a scorpion venom compound already being investigated for treating brain cancer, University of Washington researchers found they could cut the spread of cancerous cells by 98 percent, compared to 45 percent for the scorpion venom alone.

16 Apr 2009