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Project Bringing Together European Research in Nanoelectronics

The European Commission has granted autonomy to the ENIAC Joint Undertaking, a body created by the EU's Council of Ministers to bring together European research in nanoelectronics. This is a major step forward bec...

7 May 2010

Physics Professor Named Director of Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility

Daniel C. Ralph, the Horace White Professor of Physics, has been named the L.B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF), starting July 1.

7 May 2010

Gold Nanoparticles Saving Lives

Gold isn't exactly what comes to mind when you think of treatments for cancer. But researchers at Ohio University are exploring whether the metallic element can actually save lives.

7 May 2010

Finnish Nanotechnology Takes Giant Strides in Five Years

Nanotechnology is already a part of the everyday operations of over 200 hundred Finnish companies, and it is estimated that nanotechnology will generate turnover of EUR 1.2 billion in 2013. Boosted by Tekes' FinNano ...

7 May 2010

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Science and Engineering Public University in California Enter Research Agreement

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”), 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 three-year sponsored research agreement with a leading science and engineering campus within the largest public university system in the state of California.

7 May 2010

BT Imaging Announces New Automated Electrical Wafer Quality Sorter for PV Manufacturers

BT Imaging Pty Ltd (BTi), the world's leading supplier of luminescence-based inspection and quality control systems for the photovoltaic manufacturing industry, today announced a breakthrough product for qualifying the electrical quality of as-cut wafers in production.

7 May 2010

New Laser Interference Lithography Helps to Fabricate 2D and 3D Nano-Structures

European Research Team Leads with New Nano-fabrication Breakthroughs Two important breakthroughs by European researchers have brought an emerging nano-scale fabrication technology out of the lab an...

7 May 2010

Researchers Discover Reason for Poor Outcome to HER2+ Breast Cancer Treatment Strategies

An international team of researchers has discovered molecular evidence that may explain why some women with HER2 over-expressing breast cancer do not respond to drugs designed to target this important molecule. ...

7 May 2010

New Observations on Disordered Nanoscale Materials

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7 May 2010

NanoString Receives ISO 13485:2003 Certification for nCounter Analysis System

NanoString Technologies, Inc. today announced it has received ISO 13485:2003 certification, an internationally recognized quality standard for medical devices.

From Nanostring Technologies 7 May 2010

DNA Microarray Capture Technology Enables Sequencing of Ancient Neandertals

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute (MPI), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Agilent Technologies Inc., and other prestigious institutions worldwide have shown that DNA capture techniques can greatly enable the sequencing of ancient Neandertal DNA, providing new insight into the nature of these prehistoric hominids.

7 May 2010

Better Rydberg Atom Trap Built for Quantum Information Processing

In an achievement that could help enable fast quantum computers, University of Michigan physicists have built a better Rydberg atom trap. Rydberg atoms are highly excited, nearly-ionized giants that can be thousands of t...

7 May 2010

NanoH2O Receives ONR Funding to Validate its High-Flux Membranes

NanoH2O, a global provider of membranes for desalination and water reuse, today announced that the company has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) to evaluate its high-flux membranes for shipboard desalination systems.

7 May 2010

New Research on Peptides Provides Clues to Origins of Life

Emory University scientists have discovered that simple peptides can organize into bi-layer membranes. The finding suggests a "missing link" between the pre-biotic Earth's chemical inventory and the organizational scaffolding essential to life.

7 May 2010

MIT Scientists Applauded for Development of Nanomaterial-Based Paper Solar Cells

Evolution Solar (PinkSheets:EVSO) applauded the news that Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have successfully coated paper with a solar cell, part of a suite of research projects aimed at...

7 May 2010