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Russia Believes Israel Could Become Strategic Partner in Nanotechnology

Russia believes that Israel could become a strategic partner in developing nanotechnology projects, the general director of the Russian Rosnanotech state corporation said on Thursday. "Israel is one of the globa...

5 Sep 2008

Implementing Recommendations of FDA Nanotechnology Task Force Report

The Food + Drug Administration (FDA) issued in July 2007 its Nanotechnology Task Force Report. This report acknowledged that nanoscale materials potentially could be used in most product types regulated by the agency and...

5 Sep 2008

Bilayer Clusters of Atoms Less Than a Nanometer in Dimension Found to be Responsible for Vital Oxidation Reaction

Few materials have exercised as much of a hold on the human imagination, or on human history, as has gold. But for all of its popular uses - money, medals, jewelry and more - gold's potential as a catalyst lay hid...

5 Sep 2008

NXP Semiconductor Adopts Azuro's PowerCentric CTS and Optimization Solution

Azuro, Inc. a provider of advanced clock implementation tools for nanometer chip design, today announced that NXP Semiconductor has adopted Azuro's PowerCentric(TM) clock-tree synthesis (CTS) and optimization solutio...

5 Sep 2008

Presto's In-Silicon Analysis Services Now Available on the 300mm Probe Station from Micromanipulator

Presto Engineering, Inc., a provider of product engineering services to the semiconductor industry, announced today that it has established a collaborative business development alliance with the Micromanipulator Company,...

5 Sep 2008

Implantable Devices Made from Biodegradable Metals

Dozens of engineers and doctors from universities and industries around the world will collaborate on a five-year, $18.5 million project announced Sept. 4 to develop implantable devices made from biodegradable metals. Th...

5 Sep 2008

Navy Contract Aims for Real-Time Laboratory-Quality Capabilities in Rugged Battlefield Instrument

Fairway Medical Technologies, Inc. has received a $900,000, 3-year contract from the Department of the Navy to apply its optoacoustic technology to the real-time detection of blood borne pathogens and biological warfare ...

5 Sep 2008

Smart NanoBattery Technology Published in New Bionanotechnology Book

Leading microfludics and nanotechnology development company mPhase Technologies, Inc., today announced that it has published a chapter and contributed its images for the cover in a new hardcover book released this month from CRC Press, called, "Bionanotechnology: Global Prospects."

5 Sep 2008

UT Health Science Center Announces License Agreement for Lipid Nanospheres

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Azaya Therapeutics Inc. today announced a licensing agreement for a novel nano-scale, lipid-sphere technology conceived and pre-clinically tested by Health...

5 Sep 2008

Aviza Technology Receives Multiple Orders from World's Leading Optoelectronics Manufacturers

Aviza Technology, Inc., a supplier of advanced semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets, today announced that it has received multiple orders from...

5 Sep 2008

Scientists Find a Way to Help Make New Reactions

Princeton scientists have discovered a way of stimulating organic molecules that they expect will prompt researchers to create materials from new kinds of chemical reactions. The method of catalysis, when used, could ...

5 Sep 2008

Expert Outlines Ways to Manage Innovations such as Nanotechnology Effectively

While the world desperately needs many of the innovations that scientists promise, the record of research delivering on such promises is mixed, and society often underestimates its ability to steer research toward desire...

5 Sep 2008

Paving the Way for Commercialization of Nanocrystal-Based LEDs

Evident Technologies, Inc. and Philips Electronics signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement paving the way for commercialization of nanocrystal-based LEDs. Evident Technologies intends to immediately launch a new line ...

4 Sep 2008

UCSD Scientist Presents First Unified Vision of 'The Building Blocks of Life'

Why is it that the origins of many serious diseases remain a mystery? In considering that question, a scientist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has come up with a unified molecular view of the indivisible unit of life, the cell, which may provide an answer.

4 Sep 2008

Researchers Discover Target Molecule for Novel Anti-Cancer Drugs

According a new study, unsatisfying drug for anxiety reveals scientists a promising novel anti-cancer drug target. Cancer cells have multiple ways to avoid apoptosis, programmed cell death the means by which organisms...

4 Sep 2008