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Researchers Developed a New and Cost-Effective Alternative to Conventional Seals

From petroleum to food and beverage to pharmaceuticals, most industries use mechanical pumps, and all these pumps rely on seals to reduce leaks and maintenance costs. Argonne researchers, along with industry partners, have developed a new, efficient and cost-effective alternative to conventional seals.

8 Oct 2008

MDRNA Advances RNAi Pipeline Toward Human Clinical Development

MDRNA, Inc. announced today that it has advanced its RNAi pipeline with the selection of a Lead Candidate in its hypercholesterolemia program targeting Apolipoprotein B (ApoB). The compound, designated MDR-04227, was dev...

8 Oct 2008

Applied Nanotech Expands Research Agreement

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. today announced that the third phase of its research project with a leading industrial chemical products company in Japan, announced on September 29, 2008, has been expanded and the previo...

From Nano Magic, LLC. 8 Oct 2008

Particle Sciences Sells Proprietary Line of Microfine Titanium Dioxide to Sensient

Particle Sciences announced today that it has sold T-COTE, its proprietary line of microfine titanium dioxide, to Sensient. With the sale, Sensient assumes all marketing and sales responsibilities and acquires the associ...

8 Oct 2008

Using Carbon Nanospheres to Produce an Improved Imaging Agent

Luna Innovations Incorporated announces an award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve the detection and diagnosis of brain tumors. Under this program, Luna will a...

8 Oct 2008

NCCN Announces Collaboration to Conduct Anti-Cancer Drug Studies

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), Abraxis BioScienc, and AstraZeneca today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to conduct multiple investigator-initiated studies of Abraxis BioScience's anti-cancer drug ABRAXANE® for Injectable Suspension (paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectable suspension) (albumin bound), which is based on the company's proprietary tumor targeting technology known as the nab(TM) platform.

8 Oct 2008

Company Achieves Substantial Cost Savings With PLM Investment

Omnify Software, a leading provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for electronic, medical, mechanical, and defense manufacturers, today announced that Crystal Technology, a leading manufacturer of oxide ...

7 Oct 2008

Discovery of New Material Allows the Use of Hydrogen as a Clean Fuel

A team of scientists from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has designed a material with such high ion conductivity that it allows the use of hydrogen as a clean fuel. The research work has been published in th...

7 Oct 2008

Nano-Catalytic SilverSol Technology Show Promising Results Against Bird Flu and Related Influenza

American Biotech Labs(R) (ABL), creator of a new class of products based on the company's patented nano-catalytic SilverSol Technology(R), today announced positive results from animal studies involving its ASAP 10 pr...

7 Oct 2008

WaferGen Signs Distribution Agreements for SmartSlide Micro-Incubation System in Europe and Asia

WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art gene expression, genotyping, cell biology and stem cell research systems, today announced the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement for the comp...

From Takara Bio USA, Inc. 7 Oct 2008

First and Only Anti-Cancer siRNA Drug Candidate Currently Undergoing Human Clinical Trials

Calando Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 7,427,605, entitled, "Inhibitors of ribonucleotide reductase subunit 2 an...

7 Oct 2008

Recipients of Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 Announced

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half to Yoichiro Namb and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa.

7 Oct 2008

The Foundry Company to Build New State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facility

AMD and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) of Abu Dhabi today announced the creation of a U.S.-headquartered, leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company to address growing demand for independent, lea...

7 Oct 2008

New Data Describes Properties of Thermoelectric Materials

Thermoelectric materials can be assembled into units, which can transform the thermal difference to electrical energy or vice versa - electrical current to cooling. An effective utilization requires however that the material supplies a high voltage and has good electrical, but low thermal conductivity.

7 Oct 2008

Integrated Fluidic Circuits Bring New Levels of Efficiency and Flexibility for High-Throughput Genotyping

Fluidigm Corporation and BIOKÉ, a licensed distributor for the company, today announced that Enza Zaden, one of the world's leading suppliers of high-quality vegetable seeds for agriculture, has chosen the Fluid...

7 Oct 2008