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Z-Medica Awarded Contract for Penetrating Wound Study Using New Hemostatic Gauze

Z-Medica Corporation (Z-Medica), a medical products company focused on innovative hemostatic nano-technologies, today announced that it has been awarded a $2.9 million contract from the United States Navy and Marine Corp...

13 Oct 2008

Germany's ERP Start Fund invests in Nanostart-Held Namos

Namos GmbH, a Dresden-based company which is partly owned by Nanostart AG, will receive up to one million euros from the ERP Start Fund, a joint program of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the German govern...

From Nanostart AG 13 Oct 2008

Delaware University Professor Receives ACA Early Career Award

Svilen Bobev, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware, has been selected to receive the 2009 Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award from the American Crystallographic Association (ACA). The nonprofit scientific association has more than 2,200 members in over 60 countries.

13 Oct 2008

University of Delaware to Host Workshop on Environmental Nanoparticles

The University of Delaware will host "Environmental Nanoparticles: Science, Ethics + Policy" on Nov. 10-11 at the John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center in Newark, Del. The registration deadline is Monday, Oct....

13 Oct 2008

Nanomechanical Approach to Investigate the Workings of Vancomycin

This week Nature Nanotechnology journal (October 12th) reveals how scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL are using a novel nanomechanical approach to investigate the workings of vancomycin, on...

13 Oct 2008

Display Features Images Taken by Scientists from Various Disciplines

Acclaimed scientists and photographers from around the world will share their scientific research, discoveries and observations of natural wonders in an international photography exhibition opening next month at Rochester Institute of Technology.

12 Oct 2008

NanoDynamics Energy to Deliver two SOFC Operating at 35-Percent Efficiency

NanoDynamics Energy Inc. announced today that it delivered two solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) operating at 35-percent efficiency on propane for use in the Department of Defense Research & Engineering's (DDR+E) Wea...

12 Oct 2008

NeoBiocon and Abraxis BioScience Launch Abraxane for Treatment of Breast Cancer

NeoBiocon, a recently established biotechnology company and Abraxis BioScience, Inc., a fully integrated biotechnology company, today announced the launch of ABRAXANE® (paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectab...

12 Oct 2008

The Environmental Impact of Nanotechnology

The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California at Santa Barbara (CNS-UCSB) helped to win the new University of California Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN), a...

11 Oct 2008

Ames Lab Researchers Team Up to Probe Iron-Arsenic Superconductors

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are part of collaborative team that's used a brand new instrument at the DOE's Spallation Neutron Source to probe iron-arsenic compounds, the &qu...

11 Oct 2008

PI Releases New Catalog Focusing on Tools for Microscopy and Imaging

Nanopositioning specialist PI has released a new catalog entitled "Tools for Microscopy and Imaging", available for download in PDF format.

11 Oct 2008

Company Continues to Invest in Next Generation Nanotechnology Products

API Nanotronics Corp., a leading supplier of electronic components, nano-optics and nanotechnology research and development to the defense and communications sectors, today announced first quarter operating results for t...

11 Oct 2008

Breakthrough in Single-Electron Device Fabrication

Laptop computers that are lighter and generate less heat. Portable memory devices the size of a thumbnail or a quarter that can store the equivalent of hundreds of movies.

11 Oct 2008

Giving Students a View of Growing Career Opportunities in Nanotechnology

Amid the growing number of nanotechnology-related career opportunities in the Capital Region and New York State, more than 300 elementary, middle- and high-school students got an inside look at the high-tech workplace of...

11 Oct 2008

Nanowire Sensors to be Used for Point-of-Care Disease Detection

Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano...

11 Oct 2008