Nanotechnology News

RSS

Multimillion Dollar Donation for Establishment of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology

Prof. Moein Moghimi (Professor of Biopharmacy and Nanomedicine, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical chemistry) and colleagues have received 28 million DKK (approximately 3.75 million Euros) from the Danish Council...

18 Dec 2008

New Centrifugation Method Capable of Separating Carbon Nanotubes

Double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) can be separated from mixtures of single- (SWNTs) and multiwalled nanotubes (MWNTs) by using a centrifugation method recently developed at Northwestern University

18 Dec 2008

Industrial Nanotech Establish Manufacturing Plant in South Africa

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced that the Company has signed a deal to manufacture its products in South Africa. "Our representatives in t...

18 Dec 2008

Nanoparticle Targets Melanoma With siRNA

Specially designed small RNA molecules have proven very effective in decreasing the expression of specific genes that cancer cells need to survive; however, getting these RNA molecules inside cancer cells in living anima...

18 Dec 2008

Epeius Biotechnologies Files Patent for Leading Tumor-Targeted Gene Delivery Systems

Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation, a leader in tumor-targeted gene delivery systems, has received two additional European patents for the platform targeting technologies and molecular designs that enable precision gene ...

18 Dec 2008

India's Premier Nanotechnology Institute to be Built on 14 Acres

Government of Karnataka, on the occasion of 2nd Bangalore Nano, in the august presence of M. Hamid Ansari, H.E. Vice President of India, Rameshwar Thakur, H.E. Governor of Karnataka, Dr. V.S. Acharya, Honourable Home Min...

17 Dec 2008

Starpharrma Report Advancement in its Dendrimer-based Drug-Delivery Program

A Starpharma dendrimer combined with a widely-used cancer drug (doxorubicin) has achieved a significant extension of the drug's plasma half-life and a marked reduction in drug toxicity compared to administration of the drug alone.

17 Dec 2008

Preview of Current Applications in Nanotechnology

This week saw a group of "thought leaders" involved in the field of nanotechnology gather in the US to discuss the potential of the sector. The EntreTech Forum, held in Waltham, Massachusetts, on December 16th ...

17 Dec 2008

MEMSIC Introduce New Magnetic Sensor with Enhanced Digital Compass

MEMSIC, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEMS), a leading MEMS solution provider, combining proprietary MEMS technology with advanced mixed signal processing and system solution, today announced a new line of magnetic sensors with enhanced...

From MEMSIC Inc. 17 Dec 2008

Advanced School on Hybrid Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Applications

An advanced school on hybrid nanostructured materials for photovoltaic applications will be held from 9 to 11 March 2009 in Valencia, Spain. The school is intended for PhD students, post-doc and junior faculty members...

17 Dec 2008

Animation Reveals the Mysterious Properties of the Quantum World

Quantum physics is both mysterious and difficult to grasp. Barry Sanders, director of the University of Calgary's Institute for Quantum Information Science, is hoping to change that.

17 Dec 2008

New Nanochemistry Laboratory to Serve Worldwide Research Group with Custom-Made Nanomaterials

The new Nanochemistry Laboratory is located at the Institut de Science et d’Ingenierie Supramoleculaires (ISIS) of the University of Strasbourg, France and will be headed by Dr. Nina Matoussevitch, an experienced N...

17 Dec 2008

Examining the Ethical Issues on the Future of Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology takes genetic engineering techniques developed in the 1970s many steps forward. Those methods were largely confined to moving genes from one organism to another. Now, using techniques from molecular bio...

17 Dec 2008

Introducing NanoArt Online Competition - A New Art Discipline

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 nanosculptures (structures created by scientists and artists by manipulating matter at molecular and atomic scales using chemical and physical processes).

17 Dec 2008

Researchers Identified Cancer Cells Defensive Mechanism

A team of researchers headed by Professor Roland Stauber of Mainz University's ENT clinic has identified a molecular mechanism used by cancer cells to "defend" themselves against chemotherapeutics in an att...

17 Dec 2008