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Alnylam Issued Patent for RNAi Therapeutics

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that the European Patent Office (EPO) has issued a notification of intent to grant for a patent (EP1309726) in the Tuschl...

20 Apr 2009

Supplying Precision Dispensers and Metering Pumps for Laboratory and OEM Applications

For the past 50 Years Fluid Metering, Inc. has supplied Precision Dispensers and Metering Pumps for Laboratory, Industrial, Process and OEM applications.

20 Apr 2009

Better Way to Deliver Cancer Drugs Directly to Tumors by Using Specially Engineered Nanoparticles

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology has demonstrated a better way to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors b...

20 Apr 2009

Nanoparticle Method Designed to Restore Normal Gene Function to Tumor Cells

Dr. Esther Chang describes the most recent developments in human trials of the first systemic, non-viral, tumor-targeted, nanoparticle method designed to restore normal gene function to tumor cells while completely bypas...

20 Apr 2009

Novel Carbene Catalyst Opens New Perspectives

It's the reason why chemists envy green plants: by using photosynthesis, plants can easily fix the carbon dioxide that is so plentiful in air to make biomass, or organic compounds.

20 Apr 2009

Joint Development Research Focuses on 3D TSV Process Control

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RTEC) and SEMATECH, the global consortium of leading chipmakers, announced today that Rudolph has joined SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect Program at the College of Nanoscale Science and ...

From Onto Innovation 20 Apr 2009

NSF Program Training Teachers in Nanosciences

Hoping that science will cast a spell on local middle and high school students, a University of Houston team is starting a program that will harness the magical draw of the Harry Potter series to make technical subjects ...

20 Apr 2009

Chinese Manufacturer Uses Veeco's MOCVD Systems for High Volume Production of HB-LEDs

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Shandong Raysun Huaguang Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (Huaguang) of China has qualified Veeco's gallium nitride (GaN) and arsenic phosphide (AsP) metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems for high volume production of red and blue high-brightness light emitting diodes (HB-LEDs).

20 Apr 2009

Researchers Found Way to Make Transistors Smaller and Faster Using Self-Assembled Nanowires

Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to make transistors smaller and faster. The technique uses self-assembled, self-aligned, and defect-free nanowire channels made of gallium arsenide. In a...

20 Apr 2009

ARM Extends Technology Leadership in Physical IP with Delivery of Power-Efficient Libraries on TSMC 40nm G Foundry Process

ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMH)] today announced the availability of the industry's most comprehensive IP platform for TSMC's 40nm G manufacturing process. This latest silicon-validated physical IP from ARM enables...

From TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 20 Apr 2009

World's First Tandem Junction SunFab Thin Film Line Installed at Sunfilm's Germany Facility Achieves Factory Acceptance

Sunfilm, AG and Applied Materials, Inc., today announced that the world's first tandem junction SunFab Thin Film Line installed at Sunfilm's Grossroehrsdorf facility achieved factory acceptance on April 14, 2009.

From Applied Materials Inc. 20 Apr 2009

New Antimicrobial Paints that Can Simultaneously Kill Disease-Causing Bacteria, Mold, Fungi, and Viruses

Scientists in South Dakota are reporting development of the first broad-spectrum antimicrobial paint, a material that can simultaneously kill not just disease-causing bacteria but mold, fungi, and viruses. Designed to both decorate and disinfect homes, businesses, and health-care settings, the paint is the most powerful to date, according to their new study.

20 Apr 2009

New Microsensor Giving Second-by-Second Readings of Oxygen Levels in the Brain

Scientists in Italy and Ireland are reporting development of the first wireless sensor that gives second-by-second readings of oxygen levels in the brain. The new microsensor - smaller than a dime - could become the basis for tiny devices to help test drugs and other treatments for patients with traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and other conditions.

20 Apr 2009

MicroRNA Discovery May Lead to New Diagnostic Tests for Cancer

Among their many roles as message couriers and gene regulators, microRNA molecules also help control the repair of damaged DNA within cells, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School scientists report in the May issue of Nature Structural + Molecular Biology.

19 Apr 2009

Innovative Method Opens Door for Targeted Design of Nanoantennas

In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain), Harvard University (USA) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) reports an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology.

19 Apr 2009

Nanotechnology News

Alnylam Issued Patent for RNAi Therapeutics

Supplying Precision Dispensers and Metering Pumps for Laboratory and OEM Applications

Better Way to Deliver Cancer Drugs Directly to Tumors by Using Specially Engineered Nanoparticles

Nanoparticle Method Designed to Restore Normal Gene Function to Tumor Cells

Novel Carbene Catalyst Opens New Perspectives

Joint Development Research Focuses on 3D TSV Process Control

NSF Program Training Teachers in Nanosciences

Chinese Manufacturer Uses Veeco's MOCVD Systems for High Volume Production of HB-LEDs

Researchers Found Way to Make Transistors Smaller and Faster Using Self-Assembled Nanowires

ARM Extends Technology Leadership in Physical IP with Delivery of Power-Efficient Libraries on TSMC 40nm G Foundry Process

World's First Tandem Junction SunFab Thin Film Line Installed at Sunfilm's Germany Facility Achieves Factory Acceptance

New Antimicrobial Paints that Can Simultaneously Kill Disease-Causing Bacteria, Mold, Fungi, and Viruses

New Microsensor Giving Second-by-Second Readings of Oxygen Levels in the Brain

MicroRNA Discovery May Lead to New Diagnostic Tests for Cancer

Innovative Method Opens Door for Targeted Design of Nanoantennas

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