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Targeted Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Could Serve as Novel Imaging Agents for Early Detection of Breast Tumors

Current methods of detecting breast cancer suffer from low sensitivity, limited spatial resolution, or the need to use complicated and expensive radioisotope-based technologies. A new report from investigators at the Emo...

21 Jul 2009

Products Designed to Meet the Demands of Molecular Diagnostics Market

SAFC Supply Solutions, a business segment of SAFC, a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced the launch of a diverse product offer designed to meet the demands of the burgeoning molecular diagno...

21 Jul 2009

Beijing Electron-Positron Collider II Modification Passes Final Acceptance

Beijing Electron-positron Collider II (BEPC II), one of China's biggest and most challenging scientific devices, has its modification works approved by the Acceptance Committee in Beijing.

21 Jul 2009

MAPPER Deliver One of its Massively Parallel Electron Beam Platforms to CEA-Leti

CEA-Leti and MAPPER Lithography announce today that MAPPER has delivered one of its massively parallel electron beam platforms to CEA-Leti. This delivery is part of the collaboration program between MAPPER and CEA-Le...

21 Jul 2009

Using Subatomic Particles to Treat Cancer

Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting, which takes place from July 26 - 30 in Ana...

20 Jul 2009

Key Innovations Recognized for Advancing Scientific Discovery

Battelle and the national laboratories it manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy have won 24 of the prestigious 2009 R&D 100 Awards, four more than it won in 2008.

20 Jul 2009

Samsung Mass Produces Industry's First Two Gb DDR3 Devices using 40 nm Class Process Technology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry's first two gigabit (Gb) DDR3 devices using 40 nanometer (nm) class process...

20 Jul 2009

Scientists Develop Fast and Efficient Way to Determine the Structure of Proteins

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a fast and efficient way to determine the structure of proteins, shortening a process that often takes years into a matter of days.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 20 Jul 2009

Novelx Wins Prestigious R+D 100 Award

Novelx, Inc. was just selected for a prestigious R+D 100 Award for one of the 100 most technologically significant new products in 2009. R+D Magazine recognized the Novelx mySEM® for miniaturizing and driving the cost out of the core technology inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

20 Jul 2009

Using Advanced Optical Materials To Study Black Holes

Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and professor at the University of California Berkeley, lead a study in which it was determined that the interactions of light and matter with spacetime, as predicted by general relativity, can be studied using the new breed of artificial optical materials that feature extraordinary abilities to bend light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 20 Jul 2009

Leading Asian Electronics Materials Company Increases Shareholding in Nanoco

Nanoco, a leader in the global quantum dot market, announces that Kisco Limited ("Kisco"), the leading Asian electronics materials trading and manufacturing company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, purchased 2,87...

From Nanoco Technologies 20 Jul 2009

Nanotechnology Could Power Superfast Airplanes

An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers has been awarded a $3 million grant to study how fuel additives made of tiny particles known as nanocatalysts can help supersonic jets fly faster and make diesel engines cleaner and more efficient.

20 Jul 2009

How Light Emission from Quantum Dots is Modified When in Proximity to Smooth Metal Films

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory's CNM Nanophotonics Group have measured how light emission from individual colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, is modified when in proximity to smooth metal films.

From Argonne National Laboratory 20 Jul 2009

Sandia National Lab Researchers Wins Five R+D 100 Awards for 2009

Sandia National Laboratories researchers - competing in an international pool that includes universities, start-ups, large corporations, and government labs - received five R+D 100 Awards this year.

From Sandia National Laboratories 20 Jul 2009

"Towards Biosolar Cells" Program Granted Budget of 25 Million Euros by Dutch Government

The research programme Towards Biosolar Cells was granted a budget of 25 million euros by the Dutch Government. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality recommended the programme because it will contribute to green energy, improve food supplies and a create a more sustainable biomass.

20 Jul 2009

Nanotechnology News

Targeted Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Could Serve as Novel Imaging Agents for Early Detection of Breast Tumors

Products Designed to Meet the Demands of Molecular Diagnostics Market

Beijing Electron-Positron Collider II Modification Passes Final Acceptance

MAPPER Deliver One of its Massively Parallel Electron Beam Platforms to CEA-Leti

Using Subatomic Particles to Treat Cancer

Key Innovations Recognized for Advancing Scientific Discovery

Samsung Mass Produces Industry's First Two Gb DDR3 Devices using 40 nm Class Process Technology

Scientists Develop Fast and Efficient Way to Determine the Structure of Proteins

Novelx Wins Prestigious R+D 100 Award

Using Advanced Optical Materials To Study Black Holes

Leading Asian Electronics Materials Company Increases Shareholding in Nanoco

Nanotechnology Could Power Superfast Airplanes

How Light Emission from Quantum Dots is Modified When in Proximity to Smooth Metal Films

Sandia National Lab Researchers Wins Five R+D 100 Awards for 2009

"Towards Biosolar Cells" Program Granted Budget of 25 Million Euros by Dutch Government

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