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Bizarre Substance Predicted to Shrink Electronics

A bizarre substance predicted to shrink electronics and give quantum physicists a new tabletop toy behaves pretty much as its designers expected.

27 Jan 2010

Tegal Receives Order from Leading Manufacturer of Precision Timing Devices

Tegal Corporation, (Nasdaq:TGAL) an innovator of specialized production solutions for the fabrication of advanced MEMS, power ICs and optoelectronic devices, today announced it has received an order for a Tegal 200 SE DRIE tool, equipped with the Tegal ProNovaTM ICP source, from a leading manufacturer of precision timing devices.

From Collabrx, Inc. 27 Jan 2010

New Tool for Gene Therapy that Significantly Increases Gene Delivery to Cells

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts have developed a new tool for gene therapy that significantly increases gene delivery to cells in the ret...

27 Jan 2010

UC Riverside Professor and Graphene Specialist Recipient of 2009 PECASE

Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau, an associate professor of physics at the University of California, Riverside, received a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, at ...

27 Jan 2010

AIXTRON to Build New State of the Art R+D Campus

AIXTRON AG (FSE: AIXA, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6; NASDAQ: AIXG, ISIN US0096061041) today announced an important step in the implementation of its accelerated Research and Development strategy by building a new state of the art R...

From AIXTRON SE 27 Jan 2010

Power-Generating Rubber Films Harnessing Natural Body Movements to Power Electronic Devices

Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton University engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.

27 Jan 2010

Clark School's Nanofactories Could Be Next Big Step in Antimicrobial Treatment

New research at the A. James Clark School of Engineering could prevent bacterial infections using tiny biochemical machines--nanofactories--that can confuse bacteria and stop them from spreading, without the use of antib...

27 Jan 2010

Smart Capsules Releasing Contents on Demand

How can an active principle be delivered in a controlled way? Until now, there was no obvious answer to this question. Now however, researchers at the CNRS Paul Pascal Research Center in Bordeaux have designed smart caps...

27 Jan 2010

Flash Frozen Under the Electron Microscope - Examining Mechanical Properties of Alzheimer's Amyloid Fibrils

Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type-II diabetes, and prion diseases like BSE all involve the deposition of amyloid fibrils in tissues and organs. These are fibrous clumps of incorrectly folded proteins...

27 Jan 2010

Understanding What Happens in Liquids and Solids

On 27th January 2010 the 25th series of experiments studying complex plasmas will start on board the international space station ISS. Physicists from the Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, will use them to study fundamental structure forming processes to better understand what happens in liquids and solids.

27 Jan 2010

Fluidigm Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Bayer CropScience

Fluidigm Corporation today announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Bayer CropScience to supply integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs) and instrumentation to Bayer CropScience's global operations. Bayer ...

From Standard BioTools 27 Jan 2010

Iron-Plated Snail Could Inspire New Armor

Tiny snails sitting on the ocean floor might seem defenseless against a large, determined predator such as a crab. But evolution has provided one species of sea snail with a unique iron-plated armored shell that resists such attacks, new research from MIT shows.

27 Jan 2010