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Nanogen to Focus on High Growth Clinical Diagnostics Markets with Real Time and Point of Care Products

Nanogen, Inc. today announced that it is evaluating strategic alternatives for its microarray business as part of an aggressive plan to achieve profitability. The microarray business includes the company’s NanoChip...

From Nanogen 19 Sep 2007

Physicists Examine Nucleus of Oxygen Atom

Physicists at NSCL have made a unique measurement of an exotic oxygen nucleus, leading scientists one step closer to deciphering the behavior of the element at its limits of existence. The finding, published in Ph...

19 Sep 2007

Advances in Nano Chemistry to Lead to Polymer Lasers and Better Displays on Laptops and Mobile Telephones

UCLA chemists working at the nanoscale have developed a new, inexpensive means of forcing luminescent polymers to give off polarized light and of confining that light to produce polymer-based lasers. The research, whi...

19 Sep 2007

Producing Tiny Factories From Micro Organisms

Microorganisms may soon be efficiently and inexpensively producing novel pharmaceutical compounds, such as flavonoids, that fight aging, cancer or obesity, as well as high-value chemicals, as the result of research being...

19 Sep 2007

Growing Stem Cells and Other Tissue in the Laboratory Like they Grow in the Human Body

Scientists have developed unique technology to grow stem cells and other tissue in the laboratory in conditions similar to the way they grow in the human body. The technology, developed and patented by scientists at D...

19 Sep 2007

Microbe to Turn Plants into Ethanol

The search for greener alternatives to fossil fuels has led to a major investment in a microbe that converts plant matter into ethanol. Dubbed the “Q microbe,” the bacterium has been the focus of University o...

19 Sep 2007

Increasing Building Energy Efficiencies With Spaceloft Insul-Cap Nanotechnology Based Aerogel Insulation

Aspen Aerogels is introducing Spaceloft Insul-Cap, a new nanotechnology-based aerogel insulation product that adds R-value to wood- and steel-frame buildings, improving their energy efficiency. Spaceloft Insul-Cap is ...

19 Sep 2007

MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids Book Shows Children and School Students that Small technologies are Cool

Bourne Research has announced publication of the new book, MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids . Authored by Marlene Bourne, President & Principal Analyst of Bourne Research, the book gives readers a basic overview of M...

18 Sep 2007

Micromem Technologies has Engaged Global Communication Semiconductors For Next Stage of MRAM Development

Micromem Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce that it has engaged Global Communication Semiconductors, Inc. (GCS), for its next stage of MRAM development. GCS is a California based compound semiconductor pure-play wa...

18 Sep 2007

Real Time Footage of the Nanoscale Interaction of an Enzyme, a DNA Strand and an Attacking Virus

For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a revolutionary ...

18 Sep 2007

Nobel Peace Dropped as Fight Erupts Over New Nobel Prize in Energy Solutions

When the organizers of nanoTX’07 announced on August 30 that Dr. Michael Nobel will release details at the event for establishment of a new award associated with the Nobel Family name, it drew immediate fire from t...

18 Sep 2007

World's Thinnest Stand Alone Oscillator

SiTime Corporation, the world’s leading innovator of MEMS-based timing solutions, introduced today the timing industry’s thinnest standalone oscillator. With a maximum thickness of 400 microns (370 microns ty...

18 Sep 2007

Cheaper and More Effective Vaccine Using Nanoparticles

Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fra...

18 Sep 2007

$2.9 Million for Nanotechnology Graduate Student Training Program at Cornell

Physicists, chemists, materials scientists and engineers often deal with the same problems, but they use different jargon. Talking to and collaborating with each other can be difficult, if not impossible. A new $2.9 mill...

18 Sep 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Help Bone Grow on Titanium Implants

For orthopaedic implants to be successful, bone must meld to the metal that these artificial hips, knees and shoulders are made of. A team of Brown University engineers, led by Thomas Webster, has discovered a new materi...

18 Sep 2007