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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

Nanotherapeutics Submits Investigational New Drug Application for NanoDOX Hydrogel

Nanotherapeutics, a privately held specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it has submitted its first Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the FDA for a phase IIa clinical study for its product...

From Nanotherapeutics Inc. 4 Sep 2008

Evaluating and Applying Unique DNA Extraction Technology to Forensic Operations

ZyGEM Corp. Ltd. today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. (CBI) to further evaluate and use ZyGEM's forensicGEM(TM) DNA extraction technology in CBI's foren...

4 Sep 2008

ProbeShield Technology Chosen Over Competition in Head-to-Head Comparison

SUSS MicroTec Test Systems has announced that it has received an order for the PA300PS with ProbeShield® Technology, the 300 mm wafer-level probe system for device characterization and reliability test, from a major ...

4 Sep 2008

Nanoparticles for Therapy and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

Today, the NAD (Nanoparticles for therapy and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease) Project is being launched. This is a multidisciplinary project with the goal of early diagnosis and effective treatment of Alzheimer&#39...

4 Sep 2008

Using High Energy Ion Beam to Authenticate Vintage Wine Bottles

Arcane, the technological transfer unit at the Centre d'études nucleaires in Bordeaux Gradignan has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with The Antique Wine Company, which specializes in the international vintage wine trade, to authenticate the glass in the bottles by ion beam analysis.

4 Sep 2008

Merck Serono and Ablynx to Equally Contribute to Discover and Develop Nanobodies

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Ablynx (Euronext Brussels: ABLX), to co-discover and co-develop Nanobodies(R) against two targets in ...

4 Sep 2008

LDK Solar Signs New Agreement with GT Solar to Purchase Polysilicon CVD Reactors

LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of solar wafers, today announced it has signed a new agreement with GT Solar International, Inc. to purchase polysilicon CVD reactors for installation in LDK Solar's manufacturing facilities in Xinyu City, Peoples Republic of China. This equipment is used to make polysilicon. The estimated value of the contract is $32 million.

4 Sep 2008

Ascentis Express RP-Amide Provides Improved Selectivity for Polar Compounds

Supelco, a division of Sigma-Aldrich, has expanded the Ascentis Express product line, a family of innovative HPLC columns designed to provide the analysis speed and resolving power of sub-2-micron columns with a 50% redu...

4 Sep 2008