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Nicast to Exhibit at The Nano3Millenium Conference

Nicast Ltd., developer of medical devices made of electrospun nanofabric, announced today that the company will exhibit its advanced nanotechnology and electrospun products at two conferences during the month of March 20...

4 Mar 2009

Sugar-Coated "Quantum Dots" for Drug Delivery

Scientists in Switzerland are reporting an advance that could help tap the much-heralded potential of "quantum dots" - nanocrystals that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light - in the treatment of cancer and other diseases.

4 Mar 2009

Nanomedicine Scientist Gets $7 Million for Breast Cancer Research

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., a nanomedicine scientist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, has received a five-year, $7 million Innovator Award fr...

4 Mar 2009

Engineers Use Carbon Nanotubes to Stitch Together Aerospace Materials

MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in c...

4 Mar 2009

SiGen Sets New Wafer Thickness Record With 20um Mono c-Si PV Foil

Silicon Genesis, a leader in process and technology for engineered substrates announced today that it has produced the first ever 20um thickness solar-cell foils. The 125 mm square monocrystalline silicon (mono c-Si) foils were found to be robust and highly flexible

4 Mar 2009

Participate in the World's First Global Market Study on SPMs and AFMs

AFM and STM practitioners from around the world have been invited to participate in the first ever global market study on AFM and STMs.

4 Mar 2009

Studying Behavior of Electrons in Thin Graphite Films in Real Time

Nanomaterials like carbon possess unique properties, which have led to first applications in novel electronic devices and sensors. These materials are based on ordered, atomically thin layers of carbon atoms, for example...

4 Mar 2009

World's First Global Semiconductor Foundry Company Opens for Business

GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a new leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company formed by a joint venture between AMD (NYSE: AMD) and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), today announced its official launch and out...

From GlobalFoundries 4 Mar 2009

NanoViricides Signs Material Transfer Agreement with Major Pharmaceutical Company

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), reported today that it has signed a Material Transfer Agreement with a major pharmaceutical company ("Party"). The Agreement initially entails ev...

From NanoViricides, Inc 4 Mar 2009

CETR Introduces Next Generation Nano-Mechanical Test Instrument

Apex is the next generation nano-mechanical test instrument providing industry-leading sensitivity, control and unmatched performance. The tool comes with two interchangeable modules - Nano indenter (NH-3) and Micro indenter (MH-2). The modules can be easily interchanged for Nano and Micro range mechanical tests.

3 Mar 2009

NanoArt 2008 Open for Public Viewing

NanoArt is a new art discipline at the art-science-technology intersections. It features nanolandscapes (molecular and atomic landscapes which are natural structures of matter at molecular and atomic scales) and nanoscul...

3 Mar 2009

A Milestone in Quantum Mechanics

In quantum mechanics, a vanguard of physics where science often merges into philosophy, much of our understanding is based on conjecture and probabilities, but a group of researchers in Japan has moved one of the fundame...

3 Mar 2009

Sigma-Aldrich Announces Global Release of MISSION LentiPlex Pooled Human and Murine shRNA Libraries

Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced the global release of the MISSION(R) LentiPlex(TM) Pooled Human and Murine shRNA Libraries. Using the shRNA collections of The RNAi Consortium (TRC), the MISSION LentiPlex Pooled shRNA Libraries enable rapid, genome-wide RNAi screening at the bench-top level in a convenient and powerful, pooled lentiviral format.

From Sigma Aldrich 3 Mar 2009

Fluidigm Announces Instrument and Integrated Fluidic Circuit Sales Reached Record Levels in 2008

Fluidigm announced that its instrument and integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) sales reached record levels in 2008. Volumes of both BioMark™ instruments and Fluidigm chips more than doubled when compared to 2007. ...

From Standard BioTools 3 Mar 2009

Luna Innovations Reports Fourth Quarter Business Highlights

Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA), a company focusing on sensing + instrumentation and pharmaceutical nanomedicines, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 200...

3 Mar 2009