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New Tool Predicts How Chemotherapy Drug Will Work on Individual Tumors

For many cancer patients, chemotherapy can be worse than cancer itself. A patient may respond to one drug but not another, or the tumor may mutate and stop responding to the drug, resulting in months of wasted time, inef...

2 Feb 2009

Shapes of Some of the Tiniest Cellular Structures are Coming into Sharper Focus

The shapes of some of the tiniest cellular structures are coming into sharper focus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, where scientists have developed a new imaging technology that produces the best three-dimensional resolution ever seen with an optical microscope.

2 Feb 2009

nGimat Awarded SBIR Phase II to Develop Insulation for Superconducting Nb3Sn Wire

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded nGimat Co. a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II to develop insulation for superconducting Nb3Sn wire. This is expected to be a two-year contract with potentia...

2 Feb 2009

Growing Relationship with ITOCHU Strengthens Auto Opportunity and Opens Door to Solar, Wind Energy Storage Markets

Ener1, Inc. (NASDAQ:HEV), maker of advanced lithium-ion batteries, today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ITOCHU Corporation, a highly diversified global trading company that leads the wo...

2 Feb 2009

Agilent Technologies Announces Opening of Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility on NUI Galway Campus

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) and the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, today announced the opening of a Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility on the NUI Galway campus. The state-of-the-art facility is fully equipped with the latest accurate-mass quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) and triple quadrupole (QQQ) mass spectrometer platforms from Agilent.

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 2 Feb 2009

Research Strategy Focusing on Innovative Solutions for Issues of Future

BASF's research units are its pulsating lifelines. The worldwide Verbund of creative thinkers is constantly producing new ideas and projects, driving forward the company even in economically difficult times. "Th...

2 Feb 2009

Cell Biologists Discover How Dyneins Organize Chromosome Placement to Prepare for Cell Division

University of Massachusetts Amherst biologists have discovered a secret of how cells organize chromosomes to prepare for dividing. Their unexpected finding is reported in this week's issue of the journal, Current Bio...

2 Feb 2009

KLD Energy Technologies Secures Worldwide Rights to Breakthrough Motor System Technology

Austin-based KLD Energy Technologies, Inc. has secured the worldwide, exclusive rights to license and produce Green Ray Technologies' patented, high-frequency, low RPM, transmissionless motor system for two- and three-wheeled vehicles.

2 Feb 2009

Company Playing Crucial Role in ESA Mission to Mars

Denbighshire-based high-tech company Laser Micromachining Limited (LML) is set to play a crucial role in a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Mars after developing a vital component in the next generation of space te...

2 Feb 2009

Gift Will Help Fund Construction of New Physics Building

A gift from the A. Eugene Brockman Charitable Trust to Rice University's Centennial Campaign will help fund construction of a new physics building -- one of the most complex design challenges for architects. The 1...

2 Feb 2009

Researchers Fabricating Organic Semiconducting Materials With a Little Help from Supercritical CO2

Someday, moving a large, flat-screen TV across the country might be as simple as taking it off the wall, rolling it up and sliding it into a study tube. That's the vision of researchers Christopher Ober and George Malliaras at Cornell University, and Andrew Holmes at the University of Melbourne, Australia, who are fabricating organic semiconducting materials with a little help from supercritical carbon dioxide, or CO2.

2 Feb 2009

Free Analytical Online Tool for Discerning Trends, Patterns and Subject Experts within Scientific Research

Science+Business Media has launched the website www.AuthorMapper.com, a free analytical online tool for discerning trends, patterns and subject experts within scientific research.

2 Feb 2009

Nansulate Now Incorporated into Solar Hot Water Heater and Solar Panel Systems

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that the Company's patented Nansulate protective thermal insulation coatings are now incorporated into solar hot water heater an...

2 Feb 2009

New Technologies Providing Continuous Monitoring of Structural Integrity of Bridges

Virginia Tech's Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (CIMSS) has teamed with Physical Acoustics Corporation (PAC), of Princeton Junction, N.J., to develop a suite of new technologies to provide a continuous, energy independent monitoring of the structural integrity of U.S. bridges.

2 Feb 2009

Static Electricity on the Nanoscale Generates Chiral Patterns

These objects are all chiral - they cannot exactly superimpose their mirror image by translation or rotation. A common example of this is human hands - a right hand cannot superimpose itself into its mirror image, a left...

2 Feb 2009

Nanotechnology News

New Tool Predicts How Chemotherapy Drug Will Work on Individual Tumors

Shapes of Some of the Tiniest Cellular Structures are Coming into Sharper Focus

nGimat Awarded SBIR Phase II to Develop Insulation for Superconducting Nb3Sn Wire

Growing Relationship with ITOCHU Strengthens Auto Opportunity and Opens Door to Solar, Wind Energy Storage Markets

Agilent Technologies Announces Opening of Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility on NUI Galway Campus

Research Strategy Focusing on Innovative Solutions for Issues of Future

Cell Biologists Discover How Dyneins Organize Chromosome Placement to Prepare for Cell Division

KLD Energy Technologies Secures Worldwide Rights to Breakthrough Motor System Technology

Company Playing Crucial Role in ESA Mission to Mars

Gift Will Help Fund Construction of New Physics Building

Researchers Fabricating Organic Semiconducting Materials With a Little Help from Supercritical CO2

Free Analytical Online Tool for Discerning Trends, Patterns and Subject Experts within Scientific Research

Nansulate Now Incorporated into Solar Hot Water Heater and Solar Panel Systems

New Technologies Providing Continuous Monitoring of Structural Integrity of Bridges

Static Electricity on the Nanoscale Generates Chiral Patterns

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