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Ensysce Secures Funds to Develop Single Walled Carbon Nanotube for siRNA Delivery

Ensysce Biosciences Inc. announced today they have received funding from the State of Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Funding of up to $1.5 million has been approved for the development of single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) therapeutics for the delivery of siRNA.

11 Jun 2010

Samsung Qualifies 32nm Low-Power HKMG Logic Process Technology

Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., a global leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that its foundry business, Samsung Foundry, has qualified 32nm low-power (LP) process with high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology.

From Samsung Electronics 11 Jun 2010

SiliconSmart ACE from Magma Supports UMC’s Move Towards 28-nm Technology

Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that UMC has standardized on SiliconSmart ACE for standard cell and I/O cell characterization and modeling. UMC co...

11 Jun 2010

Samsung Foundry Develops First 32-nm SoC Design with Synopsys' Galaxy Platform

Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Samsung Electronics' Foundry business (Samsung Foundry) has successfully taped out its first 32-nanometer (nm) system-on-chip (SoC) design using Synopsys' Galaxy™ Implementation Platform.

From Synopsys, Inc. 11 Jun 2010

SEMATECH Reports Progressions in Wafer-to-Wafer Bonding Alignment

Researchers from SEMATECH’s 3D Interconnect program based at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex have reported advances in wafer-to-wafer bonding alignment accuracies through a series of tool and process hardening improvements.

11 Jun 2010

WaferGen Offers Two SmartChip Gene Expression Profiling Panels

WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced the availability of two gene expression profiling panels for the SmartChip Real-Time PCR System that will enable microRNA and cancer pathway profiling capability.

From Takara Bio USA, Inc. 11 Jun 2010

Single-Molecule Device Proved as Effective Tool for Nanoscience Experiments

Cornell University researchers recently stretched individual molecules and watched electrons flow through them, proving that single-molecule devices can be used as powerful new tools for nanoscale science experiment...

11 Jun 2010

Simple Technique to Produce Nanowires

Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors.

11 Jun 2010

TSMC Selects Ciranova Helix Software for 28nm Process Technology

Ciranova, Inc., a leader in automated physical design for analog and mixed-signal ICs, announced today that its Ciranova Helix® custom IC layout automation software has been included in TSMC’s OpenAccess-based Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) Reference Flow 1.0 targeting TSMC 28nm advanced process technology.

11 Jun 2010

Silk Microchip for Rapid Medical Testing

Silk could provide a sophisticated new way of monitoring health, Peter Domachuk, a physicist from the University of Sydney, has found. He and his colleagues have created microchips using silk fibres. In the lab they've demonstrated that these microchips can measure oxygen using haemoglobin embedded in the silk.

10 Jun 2010

Researchers Use TIRF Microscopy to Rapidly Record Fluorescence Images from Nanopore Membrane

A team of researchers in the USA has, for the first time, been able to demonstrate the feasibility of high-speed optical identification of individual converted DNA bases as they translocate through solid state nanopores with high temporal resolution (1000 frames per second).

10 Jun 2010