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Organic Photovoltaic Industry's Leading Experts Unite in One Spectacular Educational Program

This October, the Organic Photovoltaic industry's leading experts unite in one spectacular educational program--offered exclusively at the 1st annual Organic Photovoltaics Summit USA. Bringing together over 25 wo...

29 Aug 2009

BioAlliance Pharma to Present Nanoparticle Technology and Advantages in Therapeutic Applications

BioAlliance Pharma SA (Euronext Paris - BIO), a company dedicated to the treatment and supportive care of cancer and AIDS patients, today announced that it will present its nanoparticle technology and the latter's ad...

28 Aug 2009

MEMSIC Announces New Game and Application Solution for Mobile Phone Market

MEMSIC, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEMS), a leading MEMS solution provider and supplier of motion sensors to the mobile phone industry, combining proprietary MEMS technology with advanced mixed signal processing and system solutions, today announced a new game and application solution for the mobile phone market.

From MEMSIC Inc. 28 Aug 2009

Theoretical and Experimental Study of Transport and Retention of Nanoparticles

Two University of Delaware faculty members have been awarded $330,000 from the National Science Foundation to conduct a theoretical and experimental study of the transport and retention of nanoparticles through subsurface porous media.

28 Aug 2009

Nanoparticles Simultaneously Track as Many as 10 Different Optical Tags in Living Animal

Using nanoparticles designed specifically to produce a bright Raman spectroscopic signal, a team of investigators at the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response (Stanford University Center...

28 Aug 2009

Nanoflares Providing Highly Sensitive Method of Tracking Complex Biochemical Processes in Real Time

By combining a gold nanoparticle with a unique family of nucleic acids, researchers at Northwestern University have created a new type of intracellular reporting system that with a flash of light reveals the presence and...

28 Aug 2009

EnerG2 Announces Effort Designed to Help Broaden Ultracapacitor Market in Japan

EnerG2, a Seattle-based company focused on introducing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage breakthroughs, today announced an effort designed to help broaden the ultracapacitor market in Japan.

From EnerG2 28 Aug 2009

Creating Cheap but Highly Stable Chemicals with Potential to Replace Antibodies

Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and The Scripps Research Institute (SRI) have developed an innovative technique to create cheap but highly stable chemicals that have the potential to take the...

28 Aug 2009

Killing Kidney Tumors with Nanotubes

By injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second zap of a laser, a multi-institutional team of researchers from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSOM...

28 Aug 2009

"Acoustic Tweezers" Enable Flexible On-Chip Manipulation and Patterning of Cells Using Acoustic Waves

Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough to place on a chip, according to Penn State engineers.

28 Aug 2009

Nanoparticle-Delivered Suicide Gene Therapy Could Fight Ovarian Cancer

Nanoparticle delivery of diphtheria toxin-encoding DNA that expresses selectively in ovarian cancer cells reduced the burden of ovarian tumors in mice, and researchers expect that this therapy could be tested in humans w...

28 Aug 2009

Paramagnetic Nanoparticle Rapidly Detects and Profiles Cancer Cells

Using a new type of paramagnetic nanoparticle and a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system built into a microfluidic device, a team of investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has c...

28 Aug 2009

Researchers Assembled New Cancer Drug Delivery System

For cancer drug developers, finding an agent that kills tumor cells is only part of the equation. The drug also must spare healthy cells, and ideally its effects will be reversible to cut short any potentially dangerous side effects.

28 Aug 2009

New Type of Anticancer Therapy with Potential to Target a Wide Range of Tumors

When bees sting, they pump into their victims a peptide toxin called melittin that destroys cell membranes. Now, by encapsulating this extremely potent molecule within a nanoparticle, researchers at the Washington Univer...

28 Aug 2009

Latest Research Activities on the Field of Nanotechnology and Photonics in Finland and Japan

Nanophotonics is the combination of Photonics and Nanotechnologies, study of the behaviour of light on the nanometer scale and interaction of light with particles or substances at deeply sub-wavelength scale. The bene...

28 Aug 2009