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Teaching Students and Teachers How to Analyze DNA using Agilent Lab-on-a-Chip System

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has adopted the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer system to teach high school students and teachers how to analyze DNA.

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 13 Aug 2009

Increasing Lifespan of Shingle Roofs using Nanotechnology Coating

Industrial Nanotech, a global nanoscience solutions and research leader and member of the U.S. Greenbuilding Council and the American Solar Energy Society, provided a follow up to their earlier product announcement for N...

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 13 Aug 2009

National Effort to Accelerate the Identification of New Anti-Cancer Drugs

A team of scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, and the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences will be working with the National Cancer Institute as part of a na...

13 Aug 2009

Modeling Single-Molecule Field-Effect Transistor

Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when things get really small, the regular rules of Newtonian physics quit and the weird rules of quantum mechanics kick in.

13 Aug 2009

University Awarded DOE Grant for Nanotechnology and Energy Research

Louisiana Tech University's College of Engineering and Science, a nationally recognized leader in educational innovation whose goal is to become "the best college in the world at integrating engineering and scie...

13 Aug 2009

Regional Partnership to Explore Complementary Scientific Research Efforts

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the University of North Dakota (UND) and North Dakota State University (NDSU) announced today that they are developing a regional partnership to explore complementary scientific research efforts.

From Argonne National Laboratory 13 Aug 2009

Connectivity IP Leader Delivers HDMI IP Solution for 90-nm to 40-nm Process Technologies

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the broad availability of silicon-proven High-Definition Multimedia Interface(TM)...

From Synopsys, Inc. 13 Aug 2009

Five Research Projects to Receive Total of More Than $400,000 in RNAi Screening Tools

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has established a grant program to award life science researchers more than $400,000 in RNA-interference (RNAi) reag...

13 Aug 2009

New Centre Training Next Generation of Experts in Photonics

A new centre for doctoral training at UCL is preparing to train the next generation of experts in the growing science of photonics. Just as electronics uses electrons to perform different functions, photonics combines electronics with the control of photons - elementary 'packages' of light - to perform similar or more advanced functions.

13 Aug 2009

Research Discover How Mirror-Image Molecules Gain Control Over Each Other

Research at the University of Liverpool has found how mirror-image molecules gain control over each other and dictate the physical state of superstructures. The research team studied 'chiral' or 'different...

13 Aug 2009

AIXTRON Receives Order for Two AIX 2600G3 IC MOCVD Reactors from Visual Photonics Epitaxy

AIXTRON AG announced today that in the second quarter 2009 Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co., Ltd (VPEC) placed an order for two AIX 2600G3 IC MOCVD reactors. They will be delivered in the first quarter 2010 and installed at the company's state-of-the-art production facility in Ping-Jen City, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

From AIXTRON SE 13 Aug 2009

Nanopositioning Actuators for Tunable Lasers

Tunable lasers rely on the performance of a micropositioning or nanopositioning actuator to position a diffraction grating with extreme precision and repeatability. Noliac provides low voltage actuators, high flexibility...

13 Aug 2009

PCAS and Nanosyn Signs Joint-Venture Agreement

PCAS, a worldwide leader in commercial scale pharmaceutical synthesis and fine and specialty chemical manufacturing, and Nanosyn, a leading US based pharmaceutical contract research provider of preclinical chemistry and ...

From Nanosyn Inc. 12 Aug 2009

Industrial Nanotech Showcases Nansulate at 2009 Renewable Energy Fair

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanoscience solutions, today announced that the Company's patented Nansulate energy saving thermal insulation and asset protection coatings will be showcased at the upcoming Renewable Energy Fair, on August 22, 2009 at Chena Hot Springs Resort, Alaska.

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 12 Aug 2009

Solarmer Energy Awarded Contract to Synthesize High Efficiency Donor Polymer Materials for Organic PVs

The FlexTech Alliance, focused on developing the electronic display and the flexible, printed electronics industry supply chain, today announced the award of a $450,000 contract to Solarmer Energy, Inc. to design and syn...

12 Aug 2009