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Illumination Activates Compounds with Therapeutic Potential

Proteins that can switch between closed and open states control the passage of electrically charged ions across cell membranes, and are responsible for the generation and propagation of nerve impulses. Chemicals that inf...

18 Nov 2009

Molecules in Firm Grip

The charge flow from a single C60 molecule to another one has been probed. Due to the constantly progressing miniaturization of electronic components, the performance of modern electronics could continuously beenhanced. ...

18 Nov 2009

A Much More Efficient Way of Harvesting Electrical Power from Wasted Heat

In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of that wasted heat and turn it into usable electricity.

18 Nov 2009

Competition Award for Groundbreaking Research that Uses DNA Microarray Analysis

Toray Industries, Inc. (TOKYO:3402) of Japan, an integrated chemical industry group developing its business in 21 countries and regions worldwide, announces a competition award for groundbreaking research that uses DNA microarray analysis.

17 Nov 2009

NanoScale Corp Launches New Products Based on Revolutionary OdorKlenz Technology

NanoScale Corporation (NanoScale®), a leader in advanced chemistry products, services, and technologies, today announced the launch of new products based on the revolutionary OdorKlenz® technology. OdorKlenz L...

17 Nov 2009

Researchers Develop Biosensor Chip 1,000 Times More Sensitive

Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University resear...

17 Nov 2009

Olympus America's Tech Tours Program Heading Towards University of Alabama-Huntsville

Olympus America's Tech Tours program is coming to the University of Alabama-Huntsville this week. Tech Tours is a series of educational events where researchers and engineers interactively learn from leading experts in industrial research and technology and is centered on materials research, 3D imaging, roughness analysis, inspection and measurement.

17 Nov 2009

Nanodevice Delivering Drug Dose on Command

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a polymer-coated gold nanocage that not only opens in response to light to release a small amount of a drug payload, but then closes when the light is turn...

17 Nov 2009

Nanostructured Substrates Capturing Circulating Tumor Cells

Perhaps the earliest sign that cancer is starting to spread is the appearance of so-called circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, in the blood stream. These are the forward army of a metastatic tumor, the cells that escape fr...

17 Nov 2009

Effects of Molecular Size and Binding Affinity on Tumor Targeting

One of the great promises of nanotechnologies lies in its ability to create drug-containing nanoparticles decorated with targeting molecules that recognize and bind to cancer cells, providing drug delivery only at the site of the targeted cells.

17 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology Detecting Previously Undetectable Levels of Prostate-Specific Antigen

A team of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely sensitive nanotechnology-based tool known as the biobarcode system, has detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in pati...

17 Nov 2009

American Biotech ASAP Antibacterial Silver Wound Dressing Gel Receives FDA Clearance

American Biotech Labs, LLC (ABL), developer of a new class of products based on the company's patented nano-catalytic SilverSol Technology(R), today announced that the company has obtained clearance by the U.S. Food ...

17 Nov 2009

Enable IPC Introduces New Line of Highly Customizable Potentiostat Systems

Enable IPC Corporation (PINKSHEETS: EIPC) today announced that its subsidiary, SolRayo, Inc., is introducing a new line of highly customizable potentiostat systems for use in energy storage characterization and electroch...

17 Nov 2009

Grant Hoping to Make Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging More Efficient and Simpler to Implement

Fluorescence lifetime imaging is a useful but relatively complex technique for probing the local microenvironment of a fluorescent molecule. The method can be used to help determine biochemical makeup of body tissues or measure distances between molecules on the nanometer scale.

17 Nov 2009

A More Straightforward Route Towards Engineering the Next Generation of Complex and Nanostructured Fluids

Manufacturers and materials professionals can now access an online article that describes the efficient application of performance-controlling design rules through the use of expert system rheometry.

From Malvern Panalytical 17 Nov 2009