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Several Nano-Based Techniques Help to Meet Needs for Clean Water

Nanotechnology refers to a broad range of tools, techniques and applications that simply involve particles on the approximate size scale of a few to hundreds of nanometers in diameter. Particles of this size have some...

29 Jul 2010

T2 Biosystems Contributes to New Book Titled ‘Point-of-Care Testing'

T2 Biosystems, Inc., a company developing the first portable medical diagnostic products that combine nanotechnology and miniaturized magnetic resonance (MR) technology, today announced the company’s authorship of ...

29 Jul 2010

Thermo Fisher Introduces Two New DXR Nanocarbon Analysis Packages

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the availability of two new DXR Nanocarbon Analysis Packages for the characterization and microcharacterization of carbon nanomaterials.

29 Jul 2010

New DDR2 Chip from Elpida to Become Main Product in 40nm Process

Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had developed a 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM™, the DRAM industry's smallest LPDDR2 chip.

29 Jul 2010

Transferrin-Bonded Nanoparticles Can Recognize Broad Range of Cancers

A normally benign protein found in the human body appears to be able – when paired with nanoparticles – to zero in on and kill certain cancer cells, without having to also load those particles with chemotherapy drugs.

29 Jul 2010

NanGenex Completes First Round in Vivo Testing of NanoActive Nanoformulations of Block-Buster Drugs

NanGenex Inc., the proprietary NanoActive™ continuous flow technology platform company, has completed the first round in vivo testing of NanoActive™ nanoformulations of block-buster drugs. Low water solub...

28 Jul 2010

Georgia Tech Named Olympus America As Key Partner for Nanotechnology Research Center

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) has named Olympus America Inc. as a key partner for its Nanotechnology Research Center (NRC). Olympus will provide researchers with advanced microscopes, camera equipment an...

28 Jul 2010

Nanotechnology Likely To Have Greater Impact on Construction Industry

Bricks, blocks, and steel I-beams - step aside. A new genre of construction materials, made from stuff barely 1/50,000th the width of a human hair, is about to debut in the building of homes, offices, bridges, and other structures.

28 Jul 2010

Nanotechnology Experts to Present the Latest Research Advances in Science, Engineering and Medicine in Biopolis

The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, will organize the 5th International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (I...

28 Jul 2010

Prototypes of Flexible Plastics-Based Electronics to be Displayed at K 2010

Light-emitting or energy-converting, intelligent and flexible: customers are eagerly awaiting the products of the future, prototypes of which will be on show during K 2010, the world’s leading plastics and rubber t...

28 Jul 2010

SurModics Partners with EGEN for Controlled Release of siRNA Nanocomplexes

SurModics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRDX), a leading provider of drug delivery and surface modification technologies to the healthcare industry and EGEN, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing nuclei...

28 Jul 2010

Scientists Pack Cisplatin into Nanoparticles for Use as Chemotherapy Drug

One of the first chemotherapy drugs given to patients diagnosed with cancer — especially lung, ovarian or breast cancer — is cisplatin, a platinum-containing compound that gums up tumor cells’ DNA. Cisplatin does a good job of killing those tumor cells, but it can also seriously damage the kidneys, which receive high doses of cisplatin because they filter the blood.

28 Jul 2010