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Thermal Expansion of Metastable Liquid Metals can be Predicted with Just One Thousand Atoms

The ability to predict macroscopic physical and chemical properties from information derived at the micro-scale or atomic scale for various kinds of materials has yet to be perfected in the field of materials physics and chemistry.

9 Dec 2014

Wax Nanostructure on Beetle’s Back Harvests Water from Dew

Insects are full of marvels – and this is certainly the case with a beetle from the Tenebrionind family, found in the extreme conditions of the Namib desert. Now, a team of scientists has demonstrated that such insects can collect dew on their backs – and not just fog as previously thought.

9 Dec 2014

Lab-on-a-disc Device for Inexpensive Cancer Diagnosis

It’s the one word no one wants to hear escape from their doctor’s lips. But each year, 12.7 million people around the world do.

8 Dec 2014

SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Students Receive Graduation Degrees on December 7

As a testament to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s innovation-driven agenda for strengthening New York State’s high-tech workforce, thirty-two students at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) will receive degrees on Sunday, December 7.

8 Dec 2014

XFEL Imaging Technique Reveals Atomic Structure of Proteins in Action

A research team led by physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has proven a method that makes it possible to find the atomic structure of proteins in action by producing “snapshots” of them with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.

8 Dec 2014

Researchers Visualize Protein Interactions at Nanometer Spatial Resolution in Live Cells

Cells are restless. They move during embryogenesis, tissue repair, regeneration, chemotaxis. Even in disease, tumor metastasis, cells get around. To do this, they have to keep reorganizing their cytoskeleton, removing pieces from one end of a microtubule and adding them to the front, like a railroad with a limited supply of tracks. The EB family of proteins helps regulate this process and can act as a scaffold for other proteins involved in pushing the microtubule chain forward.

8 Dec 2014

X-ray Laser Shows How Photosynthetic Bacteria Protein Changes Shape in Response to Light

Human biology is a massive collection of chemical reactions, from the intricate signaling network that powers our brain activity to the body’s immune response to viruses and the way our eyes adjust to sunlight.

8 Dec 2014

ITbM Researchers Develop Ultrafast Quantum Chemical Technique for Rapid Molecular Simulations

Professor Stephan Irle and Yoshio Nishimoto at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University and Dr. Dmitri Fedorov of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Tsukuba) have developed a novel ultrafast quantum chemical method enabling rapid simulations of molecules containing more than a million atoms without detrimental loss in accuracy.

8 Dec 2014

AI Bio Awards Ceapro Grant to Develop Beta Glucan Formulation for Energy Drink

Ceapro Inc., a growth-stage biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of active ingredients for health care and cosmetic industries, announced today that it has been awarded a non-reimbursable grant of $198,000 by Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions (AI Bio) to develop the Company's proprietary Beta Glucan formulation in combination with certain bioactives, for use in an energy drink.

5 Dec 2014

MEMS Industry Group Presents Sensors and MEMS Technology at 2015 International CES

MEMS Industry Group (MIG)'s conference track at the 2015 International CES®, "Sensors and MEMS Technology presented by MEMS Industry Group," gives consumer electronics original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and embedded systems integrators an inside look at sensors and MEMS -- the component technology integral to wearable devices and the Internet of Things (IoT).

5 Dec 2014

North America Accounts for the Largest Share of Global Synthetic Biology Market

The synthetic biology market is rapidly evolving, with various technological advancements that have resulted in a paradigm shift within the market. This has resulted in advanced production of synthetic genes and chassis to develop synthetic organisms from scratch.

5 Dec 2014

Optical Society of America Honors Pioneering Contributions to Optical Studies of Nanostructures

Junichiro Kono has been elected a 2015 fellow by the Optical Society of America, the leading professional association for optics and photonics, the sciences of light. Kono is a professor of electrical and computer engineering, of physics and astronomy and of materials science and nanoengineering.

5 Dec 2014

Pioneering Research Contributions in Nanomedicine Wins Chancellor’s Innovation Award

Samuel A. Wickline, MD, has been chosen to receive the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis.

5 Dec 2014

MSU Regents Professor Serves as Guest Editor of Microbial Ecology Journal

Anne Camper, Regents Professor in Montana State University’s Department of Civil Engineering and an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Biofilm Engineering, served as guest editor of a recent biofilm-related issue of the journal Microbial Ecology.

5 Dec 2014

Veeco Instruments Acquires Solid State Equipment Holdings

Veeco Instruments Inc. today announced that it has acquired privately held Solid State Equipment Holdings LLC, based in Horsham, Pennsylvania. SSEC is a leading innovator in single wafer wet etch, clean and surface preparation equipment targeting high growth segments in advanced packaging, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and compound semiconductor.

From Veeco 5 Dec 2014

Nanotechnology News

Thermal Expansion of Metastable Liquid Metals can be Predicted with Just One Thousand Atoms

Wax Nanostructure on Beetle’s Back Harvests Water from Dew

Lab-on-a-disc Device for Inexpensive Cancer Diagnosis

SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Students Receive Graduation Degrees on December 7

XFEL Imaging Technique Reveals Atomic Structure of Proteins in Action

Researchers Visualize Protein Interactions at Nanometer Spatial Resolution in Live Cells

X-ray Laser Shows How Photosynthetic Bacteria Protein Changes Shape in Response to Light

ITbM Researchers Develop Ultrafast Quantum Chemical Technique for Rapid Molecular Simulations

AI Bio Awards Ceapro Grant to Develop Beta Glucan Formulation for Energy Drink

MEMS Industry Group Presents Sensors and MEMS Technology at 2015 International CES

North America Accounts for the Largest Share of Global Synthetic Biology Market

Optical Society of America Honors Pioneering Contributions to Optical Studies of Nanostructures

Pioneering Research Contributions in Nanomedicine Wins Chancellor’s Innovation Award

MSU Regents Professor Serves as Guest Editor of Microbial Ecology Journal

Veeco Instruments Acquires Solid State Equipment Holdings

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