According to Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, a specialist in RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has reported positive results on its Phase I clinical study of ALN-PCS, a target-specific RNAi therapeutic for PCSK9 called ALN-PCS that uses Tekmira Pharmaceuticals’ lipid nanoparticle technology to treat severe hypercholesterolemia.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Apr 2012
A team of researchers from the University of California (UC) Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has devised a technique that allows the encapsulation of nanocrystal liquids between graphene layers, to take images of chemical reactions occurring in liquid media at an atomic-scale resolution using an electron microscope.
A team of multi-institutional researchers led by Andrei Kholkin from the University of Aveiro has for the first time experimentally demonstrated the existence of ferroelectricity in glycine, a basic amino acid, using piezoresponse force microscopy developed at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Apr 2012
Sigma-Aldrich has signed a licensing deal with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to offer two membrane scaffold proteins (MSPs) for use in nanodisc technology devised by Stephen Sligar, who serves as the Director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the university.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Apr 2012
Research and Markets has included a new report titled ‘Global MEMS Accelerometer Market 2011-2015’ to its catalogue.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Apr 2012
At the CeBIT exposition, Initiative Mittelstand granted the Innovation Prize IT 2012 award to Swiss Nano-Cube, a web platform, in the e-learning category.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Apr 2012
MEMSCAP, a company specializing in MEMS-based solutions, announced that the company’s high voltage electrostatic MEMS variable optical attenuator has successfully completed Telcordia qualification by meeting all mechanical, environmental and operational stress tests described in GR-1221 and GR-1209 standards for passive optical components.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Apr 2012
Georgia Tech professor Alex Kuzmich and graduate student Yaroslav Dudin have devised a new faster and more-efficient technique based on a phenomenon called Rydberg blockade to generate single photons that can be utilized to explore the disorder and dynamics in specific physical systems and in optical quantum information processing.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Apr 2012
A research team led by Efstathios Karathanasis from the Case Western Reserve University has developed a novel nanochain targeted delivery system that delivers an anti-cancer medicine into hard-to-reach areas of tumor.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
An international team of scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has developed a new prototype lens using graphene.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
A new full field transmission X-ray microscope (TXM), developed and installed at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) of Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven Lab), enables the Brookhaven Lab researchers to rapidly capture and integrate thousands of 2D images to create digital 3D constructs with high accuracy.
Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) researchers have used DNA origami to improve the capabilities of solid-state nanopores. They have combined new capabilities for sensing of single-molecules.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
Agilent Technologies has unveiled a quaternary UHPLC system called the Agilent 1290 Infinity Quaternary LC system. According to the company, it is the first UHPLC system that delivers a performance of a binary-pump in terms of precision and accuracy.
Over 50 years ago, Hendrik Casimir, a Dutch theoretical physicist, determined that two parallel mirrors would attract each other when placed in a vacuum. The energy of virtual particles that flit into and out of existence generates this enigmatic force, as explained by quantum theory.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
A team of researchers from the NEC Smart Energy Research Laboratories and RIKEN Advanced Science Institute has experimentally demonstrated the existence of a subtle phenomenon known as coherent quantum phase slip (CQPS) for the first time using ‘phase-slip qubit,’ a new kind of qubit developed by the team.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012