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Scientists Aim to Lower Cost of DNA Sequencing with Nanotechnology

DNA testing is transforming health care and medicine, but current technologies only give a snapshot of an individual's genetic makeup. Any patient wanting a complete picture of their inherited DNA, or genome, would drop ...

31 Jan 2007

BASF Invests in UltraCell Corporation

BASF is investing in UltraCell Corporation. UltraCell develops and manufactures complete micro fuel cell systems for portable devices such as satellite phones, radios and laptop computers, which require long runtimes awa...

From BASF 31 Jan 2007

Veeco Announces International Nanoscience Conference

Veeco Instruments has announced that it will host the "Seeing at the Nanoscale V" conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), June 24-27, 2007. Celebrating its fifth year, the conference p...

31 Jan 2007

NanoOpto and Sumitomo Metal Team Together

NanoOpto Corporation, which is applying novel design methods and proprietary nano-fabrication technology to produce a broad range of unique optical components that enable higher quality, low-cost optical components and s...

31 Jan 2007

Public Has "Fairly Neutral Opinion of Nanotechnology"

If you could paint a gallon of paint one nanometer thick, how much area could you cover? The surprising answer-about 930 acres, or slightly larger than New York's Central Park-certainly makes fun trivia fodder. More ...

31 Jan 2007

New Single-Molecule Imaging System

Scientists are able to view active molecules within a biological motor of the nanometer scale with the help of a new imaging system far more sensitive and powerful than existing optical microscopes. A Purdue University...

31 Jan 2007

Nanotechnology Safety

University of Florida engineering student Maria Palazuelos is working on nanotechnology, but she's not seeking a better sunscreen, tougher golf club or other product - the focus of many engineers in the field. Inste...

31 Jan 2007

Biggest Hurdle Facing Nanotechnology is Lack of Knowledge in Testing for Potential Hazards

One of the biggest hurdles facing the nanotechnology industry is the lack of knowledge in testing for potential hazards to health and environmental impact, according to the director of a Texas Technology Center that focu...

30 Jan 2007

Nano Chemical Systems Files Patent on Nano-Enhanced Material

Nano Chemical Systems has announced that it has filed a US Patent application on a breakthrough new material that exhibits light (luminescent) in the absence of heat. This Nano-enhanced material sets a new standard for h...

30 Jan 2007

Nano Scientists Control Rotation of a Wheel in a Molecule

Researchers at the Centre for Material Development and Structural Studies in Toulouse (CEMES-CNRS) and their colleagues at the Free University of Berlin have, for the first time, managed to control the rotation of a whee...

30 Jan 2007

BioForce Nanosciences Exceeds Goal for Shipping Nano eNabler Printers

BioForce Nanosciences has announced that it exceeded its 2006 goal for shipping up to 20 of its cutting-edge Nano eNabler molecular printers to prestigious institutions across the globe. BioForce exceeded its goal by two...

30 Jan 2007

Sun Powers London Centre of Nanotechnology

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced that the newly opened London Centre of Nanotechnology (LCN) and the Bio-Nano Centre (BNC), funded by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) and London Development Agency (LDA), ...

30 Jan 2007

New Nanotechnology to Examine Single Molecules in Order to Determine Gene Expression

A new nanotechnology that can examine single molecules in order to determine gene expression, paving the way for scientists to more accurately examine single cancer cells, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team ...

30 Jan 2007

Step Toward Molecular Computers

A team of UCLA and California Institute of Technology chemists reports in the Jan. 25 issue of the journal Nature the successful demonstration of a large-scale, "ultra-dense" memory device that stores informati...

30 Jan 2007

Coated Nanoparticles Deliver Medications Through Body's Sticky Mucus

The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a way to c...

30 Jan 2007

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Scientists Aim to Lower Cost of DNA Sequencing with Nanotechnology

BASF Invests in UltraCell Corporation

Veeco Announces International Nanoscience Conference

NanoOpto and Sumitomo Metal Team Together

Public Has "Fairly Neutral Opinion of Nanotechnology"

New Single-Molecule Imaging System

Nanotechnology Safety

Biggest Hurdle Facing Nanotechnology is Lack of Knowledge in Testing for Potential Hazards

Nano Chemical Systems Files Patent on Nano-Enhanced Material

Nano Scientists Control Rotation of a Wheel in a Molecule

BioForce Nanosciences Exceeds Goal for Shipping Nano eNabler Printers

Sun Powers London Centre of Nanotechnology

New Nanotechnology to Examine Single Molecules in Order to Determine Gene Expression

Step Toward Molecular Computers

Coated Nanoparticles Deliver Medications Through Body's Sticky Mucus

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Portable Photmetric Analysis Device - Photopette from Tip Biosystems

High-Speed Automated Photonics Alignment System F-712 FMPA by PI

Miniature XYZ Precision Positioning Stages with Inertia Motors from PI

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