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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

Cambridge University Professor Wins 2008 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) extends its warmest congratulations to David Baulcombe FRS, Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge and long-time BBSRC grant holder, in winning the 2008 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

14 Sep 2008

Symposium on Nanomedicine to Introduce New Nanotech Facility Office at WCMC

To bring Conell's medical researchers closer to cutting-edge nanotechnology techniques and to help forge intercampus research collaborations, the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) has opened a b...

13 Sep 2008

Historian and Nanotechnology Pioneer Honored at MSU

A professor who specializes in early American history and a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology have been appointed Letters and Science Distinguished Professors at Montana State University. Historian Billy Smith a...

13 Sep 2008

Proton Spin Result of Movement of its Building Blocks

New theory work at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shown that more than half of the spin of the proton is the result of the movement of its building blocks: quarks. ...

13 Sep 2008

Seeking Suggestions for Future R+D Funding Areas

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting suggestions on areas of critical national and societal needs that could be addressed by transformative new technologies. The suggestions will be considered for incorporation in future competitions for cost-shared R+D funding under the NIST Technology Innovation Program (TIP).

13 Sep 2008

LY530AL MEMS Gyroscope from STMicroelectronics Enhances Design Flexibility

By providing a choice of analog or digital absolute angular-rate outputs, the LY530AL MEMS gyroscope from STMicroelectronics, a world leader in MEMS, enhances design flexibility, eases integration and saves external comp...

From STMicroelectronics 13 Sep 2008

Nanotubes, Magnets and Electrically Charged Particles Leading to Quicker DNA Sequencing

Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is exploring how a system of nanotubes, magnets and electrically charged particles could lead to a quicker, cheaper way to conduct DNA sequencing. The project headed by Predrag S...

13 Sep 2008

Nanotechnology News

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

Calando Pharmaceuticals Announces Development of Second siRNA Oncology Therapeutic

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

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

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

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

Utah University Engineers Devised Way to Slice Thin Wafers of Germanium

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

Cambridge University Professor Wins 2008 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Symposium on Nanomedicine to Introduce New Nanotech Facility Office at WCMC

Historian and Nanotechnology Pioneer Honored at MSU

Proton Spin Result of Movement of its Building Blocks

Seeking Suggestions for Future R+D Funding Areas

LY530AL MEMS Gyroscope from STMicroelectronics Enhances Design Flexibility

Nanotubes, Magnets and Electrically Charged Particles Leading to Quicker DNA Sequencing

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