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Magnetic Fields with Nanoparticles used to Control Brain Cells Remotely

A proposal to develop a new way to remotely control brain cells from Sarah Stanley, a Research Associate in Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, headed by Jeffrey M. Friedman, is among the first to receive funding from U.S. President Barack Obama’s BRAIN initiative. The project will make use of a technique called radiogenetics that combines the use of radio waves or magnetic fields with nanoparticles to turn neurons on or off.

8 Oct 2014

National Science Foundation Awards Cal Poly Pomona $203,000 to Purchase Scanning Electron Microscope

Cal Poly Pomona has received a $203,000 Major Research Instrumentation Program award from the National Science Foundation to purchase a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

8 Oct 2014

UCLA Receives NCI Grant to Advance Vault Nanomedicine for Treatment of Lung Cancer

A $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute’s Small Business Innovation Research program will enable UCLA scientists and industry partners to take an innovative lung cancer treatment through the final steps toward its first clinical trial.

8 Oct 2014

Avidity NanoMedicines Closes $6 Million Convertible Note Financing

Avidity NanoMedicines today announced that it has expanded its investor syndicate through the closing of a $6 million convertible note financing co-led by Fidelity Biosciences and TPG Biotech.

8 Oct 2014

Researchers Develop Lab-on-a-Chip for Early Detection of Lung Cancer

Scientists have been laboring to detect cancer and a host of other diseases in people using promising new biomarkers called "exosomes." Indeed, Popular Science magazine named exosome-based cancer diagnostics one of the 20 breakthroughs that will shape the world this year. Exosomes could lead to less invasive, earlier detection of cancer, and sharply boost patients' odds of survival.

8 Oct 2014

Nanocarriers with Crucial Cellular ‘Intelligence’ to Fight Cancer

Two years ago, Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University's School of Physics and Astronomy and Rice University's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics made the startling discovery that cancer, like an enemy hacker in cyberspace, targets the body's communication network to inflict widespread damage on the entire system.

8 Oct 2014

New Automated High-Vacuum Wafer Bonding System from EV Group

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today introduced the EVG®580 ComBond®¯a high-vacuum wafer bonding system, which enables electrically conductive and oxide-free covalent bonds at room temperature.

8 Oct 2014

Johnson Matthey Acquires Battery Materials Manufacturing Assets from A123

A123 Systems LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate® lithium-ion batteries and systems, today announced that it recently completed the sale of its facilities for the production of certain battery materials to Johnson Matthey, a world-class manufacturer of specialty chemicals.

8 Oct 2014

New Method to Create Surfaces on Which Droplets of Desired Shapes Can Form Spontaneously

MIT researchers have developed a new way of creating surfaces on which droplets of any desired shape can spontaneously form. They say this approach could lead to new biomedical assay devices and LED display screens, among other applications.

8 Oct 2014

Nano-Bearings Could Help Transport Medicines Inside the Body

A collaborative group of researchers are endeavouring to develop nano-sized ball bearings for efficient transportation in the nano world. These bearings could be used for transportation of medicines within the human body.

7 Oct 2014

TU Braunschweig use NanoWizard® AFM System from JPK to Study the Properties of DNA and DNA Nanostructures

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their AFM system, the NanoWizard®, in the Nanobiosciences Group of the Institute of Physical & Theoretical Chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig. It is being used to study DNA and DNA nanostructures.

From Bruker BioAFM 7 Oct 2014

NSF Grant to Support Research on How Proteins Form Groups Within Cells

A $470,350 award from the National Science Foundation will support research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) to gain a better understanding of how proteins form groups or clusters within cells in the living body. Abnormal protein grouping is known to be associated with cancer and with heart arrhythmias, but scant knowledge exists about how proteins group.

7 Oct 2014

Nanocamera Inventor Develops Camera That Can See Around Corners

All through his childhood, Ramesh Raskar wished fervently for eyes in the back of his head. “I had the notion that the world did not exist if I wasn’t looking at it, so I would constantly turn around to see if it was there behind me.” Although this head-spinning habit faded during his teen years, Raskar never lost the desire to possess the widest possible field of vision.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7 Oct 2014

CEATEC Japan: ITRI and Komori Report Results from One-Step Roll-to-Roll Metal Mesh Printing Technology

ITRI and Komori disclose the collaboration results in one-step roll-to-roll metal mesh printing technology at 2014 CEATEC Japan from October 7th to 11th. The two parties will demonstrate a one-step printing technology for 11.6" touch panels with 5µm metal mesh and 30µm frame wires as well as 3µm printing capabilities.

7 Oct 2014

NanoViricides CEO to Discuss Ebola Outbreak on Fox Business News

NanoViricides, Inc. (the “Company”), a nanomedicine company developing anti-viral drugs, reported that its CEO, Eugene Seymour, MD, MPH, has been invited to discuss the current Ebola outbreak and the Company’s progress on a novel experimental Ebola drug on “The Independents”, a show on the Fox Business News Channel (FBN) tonight at 9PM EDT.

From NanoViricides, Inc 7 Oct 2014