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Hospital Trauma Centers to Use QuikClot Combat Gauze in Clinical Trials

Z-Medica Corporation (Z-Medica), a medical products company focused on innovative hemostatic nano-technologies, today announced that it has been awarded a $2.9 million contract from the United States Navy and Marine Corp...

25 Sep 2008

Case Western Reserve University co-sponsors 2008 Cleveland NanoMedicine Summit

Smaller than a spot on a ladybug...one nanometer is a length scale invisible to the naked eye, but one which has opened up a world of new science and engineering. From tennis balls with super bouncibility to nanosized pa...

25 Sep 2008

Dr. Robert Magnusson Appointed Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics

Dr. Robert Magnusson has been appointed to the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics, a $5 million endowed chair for The University of Texas at Arlington.

25 Sep 2008

HSE Releases NanoAlert Bulletin

HSE in the UK has released their NanoAlert bulletin. This bulletin aims to provide an overview of publications of studies that have examined the exposure and potential health effects of nanomaterials, particularly in ...

25 Sep 2008

CTT's Nanoparticle Bone Biomaterial Attracting Additional Investment

Competitive Technologies, Inc. today announced that Soteira Inc., has completed a second fund raise for a total of approximately $18 million in Series A and B financing. Massachusetts-based Soteira, a privately-held deve...

25 Sep 2008

Conversion of Energy Through Molecular Platforms Program Helps Students Address Energy Challenges

A new program funded by the National Science Foundation means UC Santa Barbara is now able to offer graduate students deep and broad experience in solving the energy challenges facing the country.

25 Sep 2008

Symposium on RNAi in Human Therapy

The EU-funded research project RIGHT ('RNA interference technology as human therapeutic tool') and the European Science Foundation (ESF) will hold a symposium on ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) in human ther...

25 Sep 2008

NSF Funded Center Explores the Physics of Biological Systems

The National Science Foundation announced this month that it is funding a new Physics Frontiers Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center for the Physics of Living Cells is one of nine Physics ...

25 Sep 2008

CODIXX Introduces Newest Member of the ColorPol HT Family

Since the successful introduction of the colorPol® HT (High Transmittance) polarizers in 2004, CODIXX continuous development activities in close collaboration with customers led to a variety of performance improvemen...

25 Sep 2008

Quantum Leap Packaging Receives Best Session Paper

Quantum Leap Packaging, Inc. (QLP), a leading provider of high performance air cavity packages for semiconductor assembly, received best session paper for "High Frequency Packaging of RF Devices" at the IMAPS A...

25 Sep 2008

SIB Announces Completion of Protein Encyclopaedia Covering 20,325 Human Proteins

Speaking at the 10th anniversary conference of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Berne, Switzerland, its director Professor Ron Appel described his institute as a "Swiss success story". He said that he was proud that as pioneers at the heart of science one of the SIB's 25 working groups was today able to announce the completion of the annotation of human proteins.

25 Sep 2008