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'American Nobel Prize' Recognizes Discovery of microRNAs

University of Massachusetts Medical School Professor of Molecular Medicine Victor R. Ambros, PhD, has been named a co-recipient of the 2008 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for work related to the discovery of microRNAs (mRNAs), tiny molecules that are now understood to play a critical role in gene regulation.

16 Sep 2008

Nanotechnology Could be the Answer to Ensuring Safe Supply of Drinking Water

Nanotechnology could be the answer to ensuring a safe supply of drinking water for regions of the world stricken by periodic drought or where water contamination is rife. Writing in the International Journal of Nuclear D...

16 Sep 2008

'Rochester Cube' Points Way to More Powerful Chip Designs

The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 ...

16 Sep 2008

Smallest University to Join Elite Group of Universities with Materials Research Center

Brandeis University has won a highly competitive $7.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). The Center will study the effects of impo...

16 Sep 2008

Futuristic Nanotechnology and Decades-Old Drug to Tackle Atherosclerosis

Futuristic nanotechnology has been teamed with a decades-old drug to beat atherosclerotic plaques in research conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The scientists have found that drug-la...

16 Sep 2008

NanoDynamics Completes STTR Grant for Development of NanoPly

NanoDynamics Inc. announced the completion of its six-month, $50,000 Phase IB STTR grant extension from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the research and development of a novel consolidation method for nanostruc...

15 Sep 2008

Veeco Becomes Charter Member in the CPV Consortium

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced today that it has become a charter member in the CPV Consortium, a global industry organization that supports the development and long-term success of the concentrator photovoltaics industry, with the goal of providing a low-cost, reliable source of renewable energy.

From Veeco 15 Sep 2008

Nano-C Issued Patents Covering Manufacture of Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes

Nano-C, Inc., leading developer of nanostructured carbon materials, today announced that it has been issued U.S. Patent Nos. 7,335,344 and 7,396,520 by the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademar...

15 Sep 2008

Calando Pharmaceuticals Announces Development of Second siRNA Oncology Therapeutic

Calando Pharmaceuticals, a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ:ARWR), announced today that pre-clinical development of a second siRNA oncology therapeutic, CALAA-02, is underway. The intra...

15 Sep 2008

Amtech Receives $9.0 Million Solar Orders for its Diffusion Processing Systems

Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempres...

From Amtech Systems 15 Sep 2008

Oxford Instruments’ ALD Tool Sales Continue to Strengthen with Appointment of Product Manager

Following the successful launch of its Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems over the past 18 months, Oxford Instruments, a leading provider of high technology tools and systems, is delighted to support the excellent sal...

From Oxford Instruments plc 15 Sep 2008

El-Mul Selects Black Magic Plasma CVD System to Produce Carbon Nanotube-Based Electron Sources

El-Mul Technologies' E-Beam On-a- Chip(TM) platform, which demands precision placement and step repeatability of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), will be produced using AIXTRON's Black Magic system, a ...

15 Sep 2008

Tata to Advise Leading Nanotech Firm as it Brings Pioneering Innovations to Global Markets

Nanobiosym, a leading nanotechnology firm, today announced that Mr. Ratan Tata, chairman of the multibillion-dollar global conglomerate Tata Group, has joined the firm's global advisory board. “I am honored...

15 Sep 2008

Utah University Engineers Devised Way to Slice Thin Wafers of Germanium

University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost of such cells by reducing the waste and breakage of the brittle semiconductor.

15 Sep 2008

Stanford Professor Receives 2008 Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science

Stanley Falkow has spent his life studying how bacteria cause human disease. But ask him whose side he's on, and he's likely to pause. Or maybe not. Actually, it's been pretty clear all along-as evidenced by an experiment in graduate school that required him to feed hapless bacteria to a hungry slime mold.

14 Sep 2008