Nanocopoeia, Inc. a drug delivery company developing a nanotechnology-enabled portfolio of therapeutic products and the Saint Paul College announce the signing of an agreement for access to the college's laboratory s...
Nanometrics, a provider of sophisticated process control systems and solutions, has reached an important milestone signifying the implementation of its optical critical dimension (OCD) technology.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Jan 2012
Shermali Gunawardana, University of Buffalo researcher, discovered that ORMOSIL nanoparticles when injected into the brain of insects, which even after being exposed for a long time, did not affect the flies and cells in any way.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Jan 2012
CRAIC Technologies, a provider of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy products, has declared that it has added kinetic spectroscopy features to its 20/20 Perfect Vision UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometer.
Prof. Markus Pollnau and co-workers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente have developed a rare-earth-ion-doped optical amplifier with performance comparable to semiconductor amplifiers.
Puralytics, a photochemical water purification product provider using light-stimulated nanotechnology, has declared that its 3 l water purifier, SolarBag is the first-ever non-chemical, non-powered system to satisfy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) standards for water purification equipment.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Jan 2012
Durdu Guney from the Michigan Technological University has developed a model to fabricate a superlens or a perfect lens that is capable of utilizing visible light to view objects measuring 100 nm.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Jan 2012
Researchers, Professor Sir Andre Geim and Dr. Irina Grigorieva, from The University of Manchester have demonstrated that graphene can be made to behave like a magnet.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Jan 2012
Blend Therapeutics, a biotechnology firm founded by Dr. Omid Farokhzad, Director of Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Stephen Lippard and Dr. Robert Langer, Professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has declared its founding mission.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Jan 2012
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, a company specializing in RNAi therapeutics, has announced the submission of a clinical trial application (CTA) with the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to start a Phase I clinical study of its RNAi therapeutic targeting transthyretin (TTR) called ALN-TTR02 for treating TTR-mediated amyloidosis (ATTR).
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Jan 2012
A research team from the Northwestern University has found that one-dimensional materials such as individual gallium nitride nanowires demonstrate powerful piezoelectricity, a three-dimensional phenomenon caused by the application of mechanical stress.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Jan 2012
CelluForce, a Canada-based joint venture between Domtar and FPInnovations, will deliver a presentation about its novel nano-crystalline cellulose material and its performance-enhancing capabilities at the forthcoming BioPlastek 2012 Forum.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Jan 2012
Intertek Cantox, a company offering regulatory and scientific consulting services, has developed a novel method called the Nano Study Score method to support superior-quality nanotoxicology studies in order to assess the safety of nanomaterial- and nanotechnology-based products.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Jan 2012
Midatech, a nanomedicine company developing MidaForm nanoparticle excipients, and MonoSol Rx, a company developing PharmFilm drug delivery technology, have formed a joint venture company, MidaSol Therapeutics.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Jan 2012
Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and Rice University have discovered that when stress is applied, graphene does not rip apart randomly like paper but follows the least resistance path resulting in new edges that provide remarkable properties to the wonder material.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Jan 2012