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Genesys Testware Adds GUI to Embedded Test Tool

Genesys Testware has announced the addition of a graphical user interface (GUI) to its embedded test tool ChiptestMaker. Currently IC designers develop long and complex scripts for their embedded test tools to embed test...

22 May 2007

Australian Nanotechnology Showcased at NSTI Nanotech Conference

Australian nanotech successes including the bionic ear, water treatment solutions, drug delivery treatments, rapid medical diagnostics, fuel cells, and thermally active granules-cleaning paints will be on show at the Aus...

22 May 2007

Nanometrics Announces New Board Member

Nanometrics has announced that Joseph Dox, a 35-year veteran of the semiconductor capital equipment industry, has joined its Board of Directors. “Joe brings to Nanometrics a wealth of experience in corporate go...

22 May 2007

Bose-Einstein Condensate Makes Sensitive Magnetometer

Capturing the coldest atoms in the universe within the confines of a laser beam, University of California, Berkeley, physicists have made a device that can map magnetic fields more precisely than ever before. Doctors ...

22 May 2007

Scientists Step Toward Tiny Biological Computers

Researchers at Harvard University and Princeton University have made a crucial step toward building biological computers, tiny implantable devices that can monitor the activities and characteristics of human cells. The i...

22 May 2007

Opening of Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Patricia Dehmer, Associate Director of DOE's Office of Science for Basic Energy Sciences, accompanied by U.S. Congressman Timothy Bishop, led a celebration at DOE's Brook...

22 May 2007

High Strength, Low Density Aerogels Made from Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created low-density aerogels made from carbon nanotubes, CNTs, that are capable of supporting 8,000 times their own weight. The new material also combines the strength a...

22 May 2007

NanoBioNexus Team with Purplegold Media to Educate Public on Nanotechnology

NanoBioNexus, Inc. (NBN), a non-profit organization devoted to nanobiotechnology and acclaimed for its educational forums and community-building expertise, announces its collaboration agreement with London-based renowned...

22 May 2007

Nanocomp Technologies Produce Revolutionary Textie from Carbon Nanotubes

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of next-generation performance materials, today it has successfully produced a revolutionary new textile material from long carbon nanotubes. The material, in usable nonwoven shee...

From Huntsman International LLC 22 May 2007

ST Microelectronics and SAES Getters Group to Produce Next Generation MEMS Gyroscopes

The SAES® Getters Group, world leader in getter technology for high vacuum applications, and STMicroelectronics, a leader in the manufacture and sale of MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) devices, have signed a ...

22 May 2007

Arrowhead Research Release Capital to Invest in Nanotechnology Ventures

Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that it has entered into definitive agreements to sell 2,849,446 units consisting of restricted common stock and warrants to purchase restricted common stock to a large ins...

From Arrowhead Pharmaceutical 22 May 2007

World's Most Powerful University Supercomputer Center to Exploit Nanotechnology

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today offered the first glimpse of what is planned to be the world’s most powerful university-based supercomputing center. The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations...

22 May 2007

siRNA Containing Nanoparticles Show Promise for Cancer Treatment

The use of targeted nanoparticles offers promising techniques for cancer treatment. Researchers in the laboratory of Mark E. Davis at the California Institute of Technology have been using small interfering RNA (siRNA), ...

22 May 2007

Biocompatible Metal Oxide Nanotubes Used for Controlled Drug Delivery

Drug delivery systems have progressed from the teaspoon to time-release capsules to drug-eluting stents. Nanotechnology promises yet another advance by delivering therapeutic agents at desired rates exactly where needed ...

22 May 2007

Nanotechnology Used to Enhance Regeneration of Nerve Cells

The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way. In two presentations at the NSTI Nanotech 2007 Conference, researchers describe the use of nanotechnolog...

22 May 2007