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Study Provides New Insights into Interactions Between Nanoparticles and Fingermarks

A group of researchers from Switzerland has thrown light on the precise mechanisms responsible for the impressive ability of nanoparticles to detect fingermarks left at crime scenes.

3 Oct 2014

Stealthy Nanoparticles Show Promise to Enhance Cancer Vaccines

Cancer vaccines have recently emerged as a promising approach for killing tumor cells before they spread. But so far, most clinical candidates haven't worked that well.

3 Oct 2014

Two Finnish Life Science Companies Launch Upcon Upconverting Nanoparticle System

The life science field has seen numerous detection technologies come and go over the years. Some are shooting stars and others become the golden standard. Photon upconversion is a novel detection technology that has raised much enthusiasm among researchers during recent years.

3 Oct 2014

Researchers to Deliver Protection from Killer Diseases Using Nature’s Nanoparticles

Case Western Reserve University researchers hope to take a healthy salad up a level by growing a vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer in leafy greens.

3 Oct 2014

NanoViricides Announces Delivery of FluCide to BASi to Begin Toxicology Studies

NanoViricides, Inc. reports that it has shipped FluCide™ to BASi for the start of toxicology studies. NanoViricides has chosen BioAnalytical Systems Inc. Toxicology Services of West Lafayette, Indiana to perform our safety/toxicology studies as needed for an IND submission of the Injectable FluCide drug candidate.

From NanoViricides, Inc 3 Oct 2014

Rapid Accumulation of Carbon Nanotubes in Wetland Sediment Could Damage Aquatic Food Chain

A Duke University team has found that nanoparticles called single-walled carbon nanotubes accumulate quickly in the bottom sediments of an experimental wetland setting, an action they say could indirectly damage the aquatic food chain.

3 Oct 2014

Nanochem it Has Been Awarded up to £9.4 Million in a Government-backed Debt Guarantee for its Plat Drill Series

Graphene NanoChem (AIM: GRPH), the performance nanochemicals and advanced materials company, is pleased to announce that the Scomi-Platinum joint venture company (“Scomi-Platinum JVCo”) has been awarded up to...

From Graphene NanoChem 3 Oct 2014

NSF Awards Grants to Investigate 2-D Layered Materials Beyond Graphene

Graphene, a form of carbon in which a single layer of atoms forms a two-dimensional, honeycomb crystal lattice, conducts electricity and heat efficiently and interacts with light in unusual ways. These properties have led to worldwide efforts in exploring its use in electronics, photonics and many other applications.

1 Oct 2014

Superior Hybrid Gold Nanoparticle Cardiac Patch for Tissue Engineering

Because heart cells cannot multiply and cardiac muscles contain few stem cells, heart tissue is unable to repair itself after a heart attack. Now Tel Aviv University researchers are literally setting a new gold standard in cardiac tissue engineering.

1 Oct 2014

Future Computer Chips Could be Based on 3D Arrangements of Nanomagnets

Electrical engineers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have demonstrated a new kind of building block for digital integrated circuits.

1 Oct 2014

Ideal Organic Single-Crystal Vertical Nanopillars for Harvesting Energy in Solar Cells

Using a bio-mimicking analog of one of nature's most efficient light-harvesting structures, blades of grass, an international research team led by Alejandro Briseno of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has taken a major step in developing long-sought polymer architecture to boost power-conversion efficiency of light to electricity for use in electronic devices.

1 Oct 2014

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Study Provides New Insights into Interactions Between Nanoparticles and Fingermarks

Stealthy Nanoparticles Show Promise to Enhance Cancer Vaccines

Two Finnish Life Science Companies Launch Upcon Upconverting Nanoparticle System

Researchers to Deliver Protection from Killer Diseases Using Nature’s Nanoparticles

NanoViricides Announces Delivery of FluCide to BASi to Begin Toxicology Studies

Rapid Accumulation of Carbon Nanotubes in Wetland Sediment Could Damage Aquatic Food Chain

Nanochem it Has Been Awarded up to £9.4 Million in a Government-backed Debt Guarantee for its Plat Drill Series

NSF Awards Grants to Investigate 2-D Layered Materials Beyond Graphene

Superior Hybrid Gold Nanoparticle Cardiac Patch for Tissue Engineering

Future Computer Chips Could be Based on 3D Arrangements of Nanomagnets

Ideal Organic Single-Crystal Vertical Nanopillars for Harvesting Energy in Solar Cells

Researchers Create Atom-Scale Semiconducting Composites

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