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iBOL Meeting of China and Canada Convenes in Beijing

A meeting for cooperative planning between China and Canada on International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL) was held on 14 October in Beijing. The iBOL, a consortium of more than 1,000 scientists from 25 countries, has one overarching goal - to assemble the sequence library and the technology necessary to identify organisms rapidly and inexpensively.

27 Oct 2008

Thermo Scientific PocketTips Enabling Nanoliter Dispensing on Existing Liquid Handling Equipment

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, introduces a new line of Thermo Scientific PocketTips®, enabling nanoliter volume dispensing on current laboratory automated systems.

27 Oct 2008

Safer Cancer Treatments Thanks to MicroRNAs

Viruses -- long regarded solely as disease agents -- now are being used in therapies for cancer. Concerns over the safety of these so-called oncolytic viruses stem from their potential to damage healthy tissues. Now Mayo...

27 Oct 2008

Kavli Institute to Host Symposium on Computing Challenges

Computer scientists and engineers -- and one neurophysiologist -- met at Cornell Oct. 12-14 for a Symposium on Computing Challenges sponsored by the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.

25 Oct 2008

Insight into Molecular and Atomic Structures of Water

Professor Pang Xiao-Feng and Deng Bo studied the properties of water, and their changes under the action of a magnetic field were gathered by the spectrum techniques of infrared, Raman, visible, ultraviolet and X-ray lig...

25 Oct 2008

Symposium Will Look into Future of Worker Protection

The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA), in cooperation with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), will sponsor a symposium Nov. 11, 2008, to examine the hazards workers will fa...

25 Oct 2008

Center for Simulation and Modeling Features Projects Ranging from Public Health to Nanotechnology

From mitigating the causes of global warming to designing proteins for the treatment of diseases, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh will now be able to increase their potential for faster, more efficient and effective real-world solutions through the University's Center for Simulation and Modeling.

25 Oct 2008

University of Connecticut Opens 'Clean Room' For Nanobionics Research

The University of Connecticut has opened a nanobionics "clean room" that will allow university scientists to make cutting-edge devices, such as a tiny, implantable glucose sensor that could help more than 20 mi...

25 Oct 2008

NREL Solar Technologies Recognized as "The Most Revolutionary Technologies of the Year"

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) took home high honors from Editors of R+D Magazine recently for two separate solar cell technologies that were named "th...

25 Oct 2008

Green Dopant Technology to Deliver New Level of OLED Display Performance and Reliability

Eastman Kodak Company, a pioneer in organic light emitting diode technology (OLED), today announced the introduction of a highly efficient OLED material that will enable low-power, full-color displays with outstanding li...

24 Oct 2008

Versatile Automated System for Repackaging Bulk Reference Standards Accurately into Smaller Individual Vials

Using a Powdernium® Workstation, supplied by Symyx Technologies Europe SA, a finished goods group has established a versatile automated system for repackaging bulk reference standards accurately into smaller individual vials.

24 Oct 2008

Company Poised to Reduce Cost of Solar Energy by Swapping Petroleum for Renewable Components

BioSolar, Inc. announced today that it has filed a patent application to protect the novel inventions and processes behind its proprietary bio-based backsheet, a protective covering for the back of photovoltaic solar cells traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film.

24 Oct 2008