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Bexion Pharmaceuticals Wins Grant to Commercialize SapC-DOPS Nanovesicles

Bexion Pharmaceuticals announced today that it has been awarded a $1.5M Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The grant entitled "SapC-DOPS Nanovesicles ...

11 Oct 2010

T2 Biosystems Honored for Nanotechnology-Based Medical Device Innovation

T2 Biosystems, Inc., a company developing the first point-of-care medical diagnostic products that enable rapid molecular and immunodiagnostic testing on a single instrument, today announced it has won the MedTech IGNITE...

11 Oct 2010

Keithley Instruments Congratulates 2010 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE: KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, extends its congratulations to Drs. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, scientists at the University of Manches...

From Tektronix 11 Oct 2010

New Energy-Harvesting Device Could Power Future Nano and Microsystems

Dr. Long Que, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, has reported success in designing and fabricating a device that allows microscale electronic devices to harvest their own wasted e...

11 Oct 2010

Thioketal Nanoparticles-Based Approach for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed a novel approach for delivering small bits of genetic material into the body to improve the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases.

11 Oct 2010

Hyperhalogens--New Class of Electronegative Chemical Species

An international team of researchers has discovered a new class of highly electronegative chemical species called hyperhalogens, which use superhalogens as building blocks around a metal atom. The new chemical species ma...

11 Oct 2010

Shrink Nanotechnologies Receives Right to Use Corning’s Modular Microfluidic System

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc., an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors, and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Corning Incorporated.

11 Oct 2010

New Method to Create Nanostructured Film of Conducting Material

Cornell researchers have developed a new method to create a patterned single-crystal thin film of semiconductor material that could lead to more efficient photovoltaic cells and batteries.

11 Oct 2010

New Carbon-Nanotube Electrodes Enhance Ion Performance

Actuators are devices that convert electrical energy into mechanical energy, such as the battery-powered device inside a cell phone that causes the phone to vibrate.

11 Oct 2010

Analysis on Global Markets for Gas Chromatography Systems

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Gas Chromatography Systems - Global Strategic Business Report" report to their offering. This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Gas Chromatogr...

11 Oct 2010

Digisens Introduces New-Generation Electron Tomography Software for Nanotechnology Researchers

More than only cross-correlation to align a raw tilt-series without fiducials, 3D reconstruction with iterative algorithms (SART, SIRT, OS-SART) using multi-GPUs, intuitive 3D/2D visualisation: DigiECT positions itself as a revolutionary alternative compared to existing commercial and free software.

11 Oct 2010

Nanofabrication Facility to Support UCLA Medical Research

The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has opened its new Integrated Systems Nanofabrication Cleanroom (ISNC), more than doubling the amount of cleanroom space available on the Westwood campus and extending research capabilities to researchers in biology and medicine.

11 Oct 2010