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More Powerful Computer Chips Possible with Plasmonic Nanolithography

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern integrated circuits manufacturing.

23 Oct 2008

Using 3-D Nanoimaging Process to Improves LCDs

Charles Rosenblatt, professor of physics and macromolecular science at Case Western Reserve University, and his research group have developed a method of 3D optical imaging of anisotropic fluids such as liquid crystals, ...

23 Oct 2008

Breakthrough A Key Step in Bringing Life to Quantum Computer

An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum computer...

23 Oct 2008

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals to Present Data Using SNALP RNAi Delivery Technology

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced today that studies conducted by Tekmira and Johnson + Johnson Pharmaceutical Research + Development, Division of Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V., have shown that novel small inte...

23 Oct 2008

5-Year NIH Grant to Investigate Nano-Based Pharmaceuticals for Drug and Gene Therapy

Vladimir Torchilin, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University's Bouvé College of Health Sciences, was recently awarded a 5-year, $1.54 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Cancer Institute to investigate ways to increase the efficacy of nanocarrier-based pharmaceuticals for drug and gene therapy.

23 Oct 2008

Project Will Advance Promising New RNAi Cancer Therapies

Kylin Therapeutics, Inc., a developer of next-generation RNAi therapeutics, announced the expansion of its research and development efforts. The project will advance promising new RNAi cancer therapies. This expanded...

23 Oct 2008

An Innovative Way to Make and Pattern Nanoscale Wires and Other Devices

By manipulating the way tiny droplets of fluid dry, Cornell researchers have created an innovative way to make and pattern nanoscale wires and other devices that ordinarily can be made only with expensive lithographic to...

23 Oct 2008

Indium Gallium Arsenide Compounds Created Using HVPE Technique

TDI, an Oxford
Instruments company, has recently advanced the Hydride Vapour Phase Epitaxy
(HVPE) technology to the growth of InGaN. HVPE is best known for its capability
to grow low defect, crack free, high quality quasi bulk GaN and AlN materials.

23 Oct 2008

RNA Interference Company to Present at Discovery on Target Conference

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an RNA interference company developing novel therapeutics in multiple disease areas, today announced that Bob D. Brown, Ph.D., senior vice president of research, Dicerna, and Dicerna co-fou...

22 Oct 2008

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Recognized for Work in Subatomic Particles Called Quarks

Physicist Paul Sorensen, a Maurice and Gertrude Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, will receive the 2009 George E. Valley Jr. Prize from the American Physical Society (APS).

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 22 Oct 2008

Nanoscience Instruments Announces Worldwide Distribution of All-Diamond AFM Probes

Nanoscience Instruments, the premier US-based distributor of nanotechnology instrumentation and supplies, today announces the worldwide distribution of NaDiaProbes® -Advanced Diamond Technologies' (ADT) new line ...

22 Oct 2008

Artificial Connection Shown to Restore Voluntary Movement to Paralyzed Limbs

An artificial connection between nerve cells in the brain and muscles has been shown to restore voluntary movement to paralyzed limbs. This finding was reported today in the journal Nature.

22 Oct 2008

Mycronic Introduces FPS5300 Pattern Generator for Advanced Electronic Packaging Photomasks

Micronic Laser Systems AB, a leading global supplier of laser pattern generators for photomasks, today introduced the FPS5300, a pattern generator for producing the large area photomasks needed in the expanding field of ...

22 Oct 2008

Malvern Instruments Participates in Newly-Formed OPC Analyzer Device Integration Working Group

Malvern Panalytical is pleased to announce its participation in the newly-formed OPC Analyzer Device Integration Working Group. The group has been constituted to develop a common method for data exchange and an analyzer data model for process and laboratory analyzers.

From Malvern Panalytical 22 Oct 2008

New System Combines Capability of White Light Interferometry and SPM Technology

Ambios Technology, Inc. introduced its new Q-View White Light Interferometer / SPM system at the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering in Portland, Oregon. This new system combines the capability of white light interferometry and SPM technology.

22 Oct 2008