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FlexEnable to Enhance the Global Graphene Value Chain

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible electronics, has announced its participation in the Graphene Flagship, the EU’s biggest ever initiative in the field of graphene and related materials.

16 Apr 2015

New Global Nanomedicine Market & Pipeline Insight 2015 Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Nanomedicine Market & Pipeline Insight 2015" report to their offering.

15 Apr 2015

Silver Nanowire Electrodes Enable Hyper-Stretchable Elastic-Composite Generator

A research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvesting device called a nanogenerator.

15 Apr 2015

Simple Method to Grow Perovskites into Elongated Nanocrystals for Lasers

Take a material that is a focus of interest in the quest for advanced solar cells. Discover a "freshman chemistry level" technique for growing that material into high-efficiency, ultra-small lasers.

15 Apr 2015

Researchers Combine X-ray Ptychography and Fluorescence Microscopy to Study Role of Trace Elements

Scientists have developed a new approach that combines ptychographic X-ray imaging and fluorescence microscopy to study the important role trace elements play in biological functions on hydrated cells.

15 Apr 2015

Gold Nanoparticles Tethered to pHLIPs Increase Effectiveness of Cancer-Killing Radiation

Researchers from Brown University and the University of Rhode Island have demonstrated a promising new way to increase the effectiveness of radiation in killing cancer cells.

15 Apr 2015

Researchers Explore Ways in Which Electrical Charges Move Along DNA Bases

Electrical charges not only move through wires, they also travel along lengths of DNA, the molecule of life. The property is known as charge transport.

15 Apr 2015

Iron Nanoparticles Heated at Precise Temperatures May Help Treat Tumors

Seeking a way to stimulate antitumor responses via the immune system, Steven Fiering, PhD, of Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth, has identified the precise temperature that results in a distinct body-wide antitumor immune response that resists metastatic disease.

15 Apr 2015

JPK Reports on the Use of the NanoWizard® 3 AFM System at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their NanoWizard® AFM system in the Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

From Bruker BioAFM 14 Apr 2015

Study Holds Promise for Developing Graphene-Based Spintronic Devices

A group of scientists at Chalmers University of Technology has performed an experiment which showed that large area graphene can effectively maintain the electron spin for a long period of time and at the same time it also communicates the spin over longer distances than has been feasible until now.

14 Apr 2015

Graphene and CNT Research with Renishaw's Raman Instruments at the University of Manchester

Renishaw, a world leader in metrology and spectroscopy technologies, reports on the use of Raman spectroscopy in the study of graphene by the Casiraghi Group located at the University of Manchester's Nanoscience and Spectroscopy Laboratory.

From Renishaw plc - Spectroscopy 14 Apr 2015

Tekmira's TKM-Ebola IND Modified by FDA to Allow Repeat Dosing of Healthy Volunteers

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation, an industry-leading therapeutic solutions company focused on developing a cure for chronic hepatitis B virus infection (HBV), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has notified the Company that the partial clinical hold on the company's Investigational New Drug application (IND) for TKM-Ebola has been modified to permit repeat dosing of healthy volunteers at a dose of 0.24 mg/kg/day. The IND remains on partial clinical hold with regard to doses above 0.24 mg/kg/day in healthy volunteers.

13 Apr 2015

Dicerna Announces Promising Data for CTNNB1 DsiRNA in Multiple Patient-Derived Xenograft Tumor Types

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in the development of RNAi therapeutics, today announced promising new in vivo data for CTNNB1 DsiRNA in multiple patient-derived xenograft (PDX) and other models of diverse tumor types. CTNNB1 DsiRNA is an extended Dicer substrate short interfering RNA (DsiRNA-EX) therapeutic targeting â-catenin delivered using Dicerna’s proprietary next generation EnCore™ lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology.

13 Apr 2015

Seminar on Drug-Loaded Gold Nanostar Probes for Imaging and Therapeutics

Teri Odom of Northwestern University will present a seminar at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, in CHEM 144 on gold nanostar probes for imaging and therapeutics.

13 Apr 2015

US FDA Clears NOVA View Automated Digital Indirect Fluorescent Assay Microscope

Inova Diagnostics, the worldwide leader in autoimmune diagnostic reagents and systems for the clinical laboratory, announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared NOVA View, an automated digital IFA (indirect fluorescent assay) microscope, through the de novo classification process.

13 Apr 2015

Nanotechnology News

FlexEnable to Enhance the Global Graphene Value Chain

New Global Nanomedicine Market & Pipeline Insight 2015 Report

Silver Nanowire Electrodes Enable Hyper-Stretchable Elastic-Composite Generator

Simple Method to Grow Perovskites into Elongated Nanocrystals for Lasers

Researchers Combine X-ray Ptychography and Fluorescence Microscopy to Study Role of Trace Elements

Gold Nanoparticles Tethered to pHLIPs Increase Effectiveness of Cancer-Killing Radiation

Researchers Explore Ways in Which Electrical Charges Move Along DNA Bases

Iron Nanoparticles Heated at Precise Temperatures May Help Treat Tumors

JPK Reports on the Use of the NanoWizard® 3 AFM System at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Study Holds Promise for Developing Graphene-Based Spintronic Devices

Graphene and CNT Research with Renishaw's Raman Instruments at the University of Manchester

Tekmira's TKM-Ebola IND Modified by FDA to Allow Repeat Dosing of Healthy Volunteers

Dicerna Announces Promising Data for CTNNB1 DsiRNA in Multiple Patient-Derived Xenograft Tumor Types

Seminar on Drug-Loaded Gold Nanostar Probes for Imaging and Therapeutics

US FDA Clears NOVA View Automated Digital Indirect Fluorescent Assay Microscope

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