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RainDance Technologies Announces First Commercial Shipment of RDT 1000 to Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced the first commercial shipment of its RDT 1000 and Sequence Enrichment Solution.

From Bio-Rad Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 26 Mar 2009

Nanogate Equips "Car of the Year 2009"

Nanogate is involved in the series production for the Opel Insignia - New-style coating protects car seats reliably and durably against dirt - Substantial contribution to sales expected - Worldwide release for series pro...

From Nanogate SE 26 Mar 2009

Cymbet EnerChip and Konarka Power Plastic Combine for ESC SV 2009 Demo

Cymbet Corporation and Konarka Technologies are combining their unique solar energy capture, energy conversion and energy storage technologies to demonstrate advanced solar energy harvesting techniques. These techniques ...

26 Mar 2009

Fairchild Semiconductor Announces CLosure of Two Wafer Fabs

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance products that drive energy efficiency, announced plans to streamline and consolidate wafer manufacturing.

26 Mar 2009

UC Berkeley and Nanyang Technological University Announces Collaboration in Three Research Areas

UC Berkeley and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, aims to achieve new peaks in research excellence through collaboration in three research areas which are of significance globally - synthetic biology, st...

26 Mar 2009

Nanoparticles Added to Cosmetics and Sunscreens May be Harmful to the Environment

Using aquatic microbes as their "canary-in-a-cage," scientists from Ohio today reported that nanoparticles now being added to cosmetics, sunscreens, and hundreds of other personal care products may be harmful to the environment.

26 Mar 2009

Cobalt "Nanowonton" Boost Imaging Sensitivity and Edge Detection

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can serve as a very sensitive technique for detecting small tumors in the body, but it is not as good at identifying the edges of a tumor. Photoacoustic imaging tomography (PAT) is not as...

26 Mar 2009

Working at Nanoscale Level, Researchers Create Stable Superhydrophilic Surfaces on a Glass Substrate

Working at the nanoscale level, University of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic surfaces on a glass substrate. The surfaces, made of randomly placed and densely distributed micron-size...

26 Mar 2009

SOCMA's Nanotechnology SME Coalition Expanding Membership Categories

In response to the growth and development of nanotechnology companies that produce and use nanoscale materials, SOCMA's Nanotechnology SME Coalition has expanded its membership categories to address their specific ne...

26 Mar 2009

Nanogenerator Charging your iPod or BlackBerry with a Wave of the Hand

Imagine if all you had to do to charge your iPod or your BlackBerry was to wave your hand, or stretch your arm, or take a walk? You could say goodbye to batteries and never have to plug those devices into a power source again.

26 Mar 2009

Nanotechnology Opening Door to the Prevention of Cancer

Perhaps the best way to fight cancer is to prevent it from developing in the first place, and based on newly published research from investigators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, nanoparticles may be able to make...

26 Mar 2009

Conducting Polymer Nanowires that can Detect Wide Range of Cancer Biomarker

Investigators at the University of California, Riverside, have developed a simple and cost-effective method of building conducting polymer nanowires that can detect a wide range of levels of a cancer biomarker. This work...

26 Mar 2009

First Live Action Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action

Science fiction fans still have another two months of waiting for the new Star Trek movie, but fans of actual science can feast their eyes now on the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving along the edge of a graphene crystal.

26 Mar 2009

First Luminescent Nanoparticle Designed to Minimize Toxic Side Effects

Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nanoscale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule flakes of silicon that gl...

26 Mar 2009

Research Team Develop Nanoparticle that Transports Antitumor Genes Selectively to Cancer Cells

Given that cancer is ultimately a genetic disease, it has long been the hope of researchers to use gene therapy to attack tumors where they might be most susceptible. Those prospects have taken a significant step forward...

26 Mar 2009