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Patent for Anti Cancer Drug Delivery System

Insert Therapeutics, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today the issuance of a patent covering its lead oncology product, IT-101. IT 101 is a conjugate of Insert’s propr...

25 Sep 2007

Breakthrough Semiconductor Technology Enables Chip Surface to Sense Parameters Like Temperature, Humidity, Certain Gases And Pathogens

ChipSensors Ltd, a fabless semiconductor start-up company, has unveiled a breakthrough in semiconductor technology that enables the surface of the chip itself to sense parameters such as temperature, humidity, certain ga...

25 Sep 2007

Grant for Advanced Sample Sorting Capabilities and Enhancements in Chip Design for Applications in Cancer Diagnostics and Research

BioNanomatrix, Inc., has announced that the company and Princeton University are recipients of a new Small Technology Transfer Research (STTR) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the U.S. National Institute...

25 Sep 2007

Bird Flu Lab-On-A-Chip Test Developed in Singapore

Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have successfully developed a miniaturized device that can b...

25 Sep 2007

Near Infrared Fluorescent Imaging Detects DNA Sized Nanotubes Inside Living Animals

Rice University scientists have captured the first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside a living organism. Using fruit flies, the researchers confirmed that a technique developed at Rice - near-infrared fluorescent ...

25 Sep 2007

Magnetic Particles in Water Turn into Snake Shapes Under Magnetic Field and Control Flow of Surrounding Fluid

Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory have found that magnetic particles suspended in water and subjected to an alternating magnetic field will form snake-shaped structures that can control the flow of the surroundin...

25 Sep 2007

PANalytical Celebrates Five Years of Providing Systems for XRF and XRD

PANalytical, the analytical X-ray company, is celebrating five years of significant growth and development achieved since its launch in September 2002. At that time the business, which was founded in The Netherlands in 1...

24 Sep 2007

Printing Finely Detailed Microscopic Images With an Enzyme, Rather Than Ink

With all the advances in printing technology in recent years, the latest may rise to the top of a list that would make Gutenberg gasp. Scientists in North Carolina are reporting development and testing of a method for pr...

24 Sep 2007

Which Produces Nanotechnology Warning

Which? consumer group is warning the Government to listen to the advice of top scientists and make understanding nanotechnologies a top priority. These technologies use materials on an incredibly small scale and can b...

24 Sep 2007

Convergence of Nanotechnology and Green Building is Creating Fresh Economic Opportunities and Environmental Benefits

"The convergence of nanotechnology and environmentally sensitive 'green building' is here, it's happening now," said Dr. George Elvin, director of Green Technology Forum and author of its latest rep...

24 Sep 2007

Model Predicts Antibody Changes and Could Improve Drug Effectiveness

MIT researchers have developed a computer modeling approach that could improve a class of drugs based on antibodies, molecules key to the immune system. The model can predict structural changes in an antibody that will i...

24 Sep 2007

Nanotechnology Based Insulin Delivery System Detects Spikes in Glucose or Blood Sugar Levels and Releases Insulin to Counteract Them

Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston have announced pre-clinical test results in the September issue of the International Journal of Nanomedicine demonstrating ...

24 Sep 2007