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New International Alliance to Establish Protocols for Toxicological Testing of Nanomaterials

A team of materials scientists and toxicologists announced the formation of a new international research alliance to establish protocols for reproducible toxicological testing of nanomaterials in both cultured cells and ...

9 Sep 2008

Biomarker Could Give People Advance Warning of Disease

A simple blood test to detect whether a person might develop Alzheimer's disease is within sight and could eventually help scientists in their quest toward reversing the disease's onset in those likely to develop the debilitating neurological condition.

9 Sep 2008

Solar Thin Films to build Amorphous Silicon Module Thin-Film PV Manufacturing Plant in Spain

Solar Thin Films, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of manufacturing equipment for the production of "thin-film" amorphous silicon (a-Si) photovoltaic modules, has received $3.6 million from Grupo Un...

9 Sep 2008

Industrial Nanotech Announces Upcoming Exhibition Appearances

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced two upcoming exhibition appearances by Apex Nanotechnologies, the exclusive distributor for Industrial Nanotech in Minnesota, where the Company's patented Nansulate product line which combines energy saving thermal insulation with corrosion resistance and protection against mold growth will be featured.

9 Sep 2008

Arrowhead Research Corp Completes Previously Announced Registered Direct Offering

Arrowhead Research Corporation announced today that it has completed its previously announced registered direct offering, increasing total gross proceeds to approximately $6.9 million. The final closing raised an additio...

From Arrowhead Pharmaceutical 9 Sep 2008

Former Engelhard Executive Lauds Nanostellar's Clean Technology Applications and Business Model

Nanostellar, Inc., a company developing and licensing materials for cleantech applications using rational design, today announced that Dr. Edward T. Wolynic has been appointed to the company's board of directors. ...

9 Sep 2008

Advance Nanotech Appoints Four New Members to its Board of Directors

Advance Nanotech, Inc., today announced that it has appointed four new members to its Board of Directors. The Board appointments follow completion of the share exchange with certain shareholders of the Company's majo...

From Owlstone Nanotech 9 Sep 2008

Work Marks a Step Forward into Studying Very Fast Dynamical Processes in Water

Water's unrivaled omnipresence and the crucial role it plays in life drives scientists' to understand every detail of its unusual underlying properties on the microscopic scale. Bernd Winter and colleagues, from ...

9 Sep 2008

Balancing Important Benefits of Nanoscale Silver Against Environmental Risks

Widespread use of nanoscale silver will challenge regulatory agencies to balance important potential benefits against the possibility of significant environmental risk, highlighting the need to identify research prioriti...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 9 Sep 2008

Semicon Taiwan Introduces XBC300 Production Wafer Bonder for the CIS Market

At this year's Semicon Taiwan, from September 9 to 11 in Taipei, SUSS MicroTec, a leading supplier of process and test solutions for the semiconductor industry, introduces the XBC300 Production Wafer Bonder for the C...

9 Sep 2008

Altair Nanotechnologies Developed Unique Lithium Titanate Battery for U.S. Navy

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a leading provider of advanced nanomaterials technology used in power and energy systems and other applications, today announced that it has completed the 500th full depth cycle of a unique ...

From Altair Nanotechnologies 9 Sep 2008

SSL Secures Marketing Rights to VivaGel Coated Condom

Starpharma Holdings Limited today announced that a full licence agreement has been signed with SSL International plc (LSE:SSL) in relation to the VivaGel® coated condom. SSL manufactures and sells Durex® condoms,...

9 Sep 2008

Methode Announces New Conductive Ink with Silver Nano-Particles

Methode Development Company, a business unit of Methode Electronics, Inc., announces a new conductive ink formulated for thermal inkjet systems. Methode's new water-based ink is called product #9101 and is highly con...

9 Sep 2008

Shift in Enzyme's Function Expands Toolbox for Engineering Biofuels and Other Oil Products

If your experiment doesn't go the way you expect, take a closer look - something even more interesting may have happened. That strategy has led scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory to discover a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant-based oil products.

9 Sep 2008

EUREKA Program Funds Innovative Research on Neural Nanomachines

ASU can now shout the classic exclamation of discovery - "Eureka!" - twice. Fueled by a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health called the EUREKA program, two ASU teams have received million-doll...

9 Sep 2008