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UT Dallas Announces New Minor in Nanotechnology

UT Dallas is introducing a new minor in nanoscience and technology, enabling undergraduates to augment their core studies with a grounding in what's also known as molecular engineering.

5 Mar 2009

Nanogen Signs EULA with Quest Diagnostics

Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGEN), developer of molecular and rapid diagnostic products, announced today that it has signed an end user license agreement (EULA) with Quest Diagnostics for use of the Company's proprietary ...

From Nanogen 4 Mar 2009

Oakland University Announces Launch of Nanotech R+D Institute

Nanotechnology is seen by many as a herald of the world's third industrial revolution, and Oakland University has moved boldly to position itself on the cusp of this emerging science. With the recent establishment ...

4 Mar 2009

New Taiwan Service Center to Meet Increasing Local Demand

Cascade Microtech, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCD) today announced the expansion of its Taiwan office to support its growing customer base in Asia. Creating a dedicated service center that provides prompt support in the region, Cascade Microtech reaffirms the company's strong commitment to its customers in Asia.

4 Mar 2009

Packing Nutraceuticals into Food via Microgels

Nutritionists are nearly unanimous in recommending that Americans should eat significantly more omega-3 fatty acids and consume them in foods, not in vitamin pills. The health-promoting fats are found in fish and some ot...

4 Mar 2009

Research into RNA Could Lead to Remarkable Advances in Treatment of Diseases

Research into RNA, a molecule found in every cell of our bodies, could lead to remarkable advances in the treatment of diseases such as cancer and diabetes, a meeting organised by the European Science Foundation was told...

4 Mar 2009

Applied Materials Releases Report Highlighting Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

Applied Materials, Inc. today released its 2008 Citizenship Report highlighting many aspects of the Company's corporate social responsibility strategy including business operations, innovative energy-saving and solar products, supplier clean-tech initiatives and community involvement.

From Applied Materials Inc. 4 Mar 2009

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

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