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NanoViricides Announces Restart of Drug Development Program to Combat Ebola

NanoViricides, Inc. (the “Company”) reports that it is restarting its drug development program to combat Ebola virus infections.

From NanoViricides, Inc 5 Aug 2014

Mammoth Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Used to Study Disordered Proteins

A pro at navigating the labyrinthine hallways in the Chemistry Building, Scott Showalter, researcher and associate professor of chemistry in Penn State's Eberly College of Science, maneuvers from his office, class and a handful of laboratories throughout the day. But it’s one workspace in particular, home to the ScholarSphere, a drum-shaped hunk of machinery — essentially a gigantic MRI on stilts — where Showalter is moving closer to the biomedical breakthrough he so desires.

5 Aug 2014

Researchers Employ Radioactive Labelling to Track Key Materials in Nanomedicines

The University of Liverpool has been awarded £2 million to become a leading centre in the UK for tracking the fate in the body of materials used in breakthrough medicines.

5 Aug 2014

Stapled Ultra-Thin Semiconductors Demonstrate Potential for Excellent Photovoltaic Energy Conversion

Extremely thin, semi-transparent, flexible solar cells could soon become reality. At the Vienna University of Technology, Thomas Mueller, Marco Furchi and Andreas Pospischil have managed to create a semiconductor structure consisting of two ultra-thin layers, which appears to be excellently suited for photovoltaic energy conversion

5 Aug 2014

Biodegradable, Nanoscale Thin Films Release Drugs in Steady Doses Over a Long Period of Time

About one in four older adults suffers from chronic pain. Many of those people take medication, usually as pills. But this is not an ideal way of treating pain: Patients must take medicine frequently, and can suffer side effects, since the contents of pills spread through the bloodstream to the whole body.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 Aug 2014

Harvard Engineers Create Portable Device for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

A team of engineers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Schlumberger-Doll Research Center in Cambridge, Mass., and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a truly portable device for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

5 Aug 2014

Novel Acoustic Bottles Can Bend the Paths of Sound Waves

There's a new wave of sound on the horizon carrying with it a broad scope of tantalizing potential applications, including advanced ultrasonic imaging and therapy, acoustic cloaking, and levitation and particle manipulation.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 5 Aug 2014

Gold Nanoparticles Self-Assemble Into Small Clusters

This was determined using Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) at BESSY II. A thorough examination with an electron microscope (TEM) confirmed their result. "The research on this phenomenon is now proceeding because we are convinced that such nanoclusters lend themselves as catalysts, whether in fuel cells, in photocatalytic water splitting, or for other important reactions in chemical engineering", explains Dr. Armin Hoell of HZB. The results have just appeared in two peer reviewed international academic journals.

5 Aug 2014

Nanoscale-Resolution Transmission X-ray Microscopy Helps Track Electrochemical Changes in Battery Materials

Using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating conditions, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed new insight into why fast charging inhibits this material's performance.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 5 Aug 2014

DELMIC Presents Data on SECOM Integrated Microscopy Platform at mmc2014

DELMIC develops and manufactures products which are focused on high performance, user friendly, integrated microscopy solutions, have been presenting their latest applications data at this year’s series of international microscopy meetings. CEO, Mr Sander den Hoedt, made the first of these presentations at the mmc2014 which was held in Manchester in July.

4 Aug 2014

XEI Scientific Releases Evactron ES Decontamination System at Microscopy & Microanalysis Meeting

XEI Scientific Inc. announces the release at Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting in Hartford CT. of the Evactron® ES, a new approach to plasma cleaning designed for OEM scanning electron microscope and high vacuum chamber manufacturers

From XEI Scientific 4 Aug 2014

ASU Professor to Lead New Biodesign Institute initiative

Petra Fromme, an Arizona State University professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been appointed by President Michael M. Crow to lead a new Biodesign Institute initiative that will have a significant impact on the fields of bioenergy, enzyme catalysis and drug discovery, called the Center for Applied Structural Discovery.

4 Aug 2014

Kavli Prize Laureates Meet the U.S. President

At the White House yesterday, President Barack Obama welcomed the four American laureates of the 2014 Kavli Prizes – prizes awarded to scientists who have made seminal advances in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience.

4 Aug 2014

Strongest Evidence for Presence of Nanoflares on the Sun

Scientists have recently gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface.

4 Aug 2014

Scientists Reveal 3D Structure of Crucial Neuroreceptor

EPFL scientists reveal for the first time the 3D structure of a crucial neuroreceptor. The achievement has great implications for understanding the basic mechanism of electrical signal transmission between neurons and might help to design novel medicines to treat various neurological diseases.

4 Aug 2014

Nanotechnology News

NanoViricides Announces Restart of Drug Development Program to Combat Ebola

Mammoth Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Used to Study Disordered Proteins

Researchers Employ Radioactive Labelling to Track Key Materials in Nanomedicines

Stapled Ultra-Thin Semiconductors Demonstrate Potential for Excellent Photovoltaic Energy Conversion

Biodegradable, Nanoscale Thin Films Release Drugs in Steady Doses Over a Long Period of Time

Harvard Engineers Create Portable Device for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Novel Acoustic Bottles Can Bend the Paths of Sound Waves

Gold Nanoparticles Self-Assemble Into Small Clusters

Nanoscale-Resolution Transmission X-ray Microscopy Helps Track Electrochemical Changes in Battery Materials

DELMIC Presents Data on SECOM Integrated Microscopy Platform at mmc2014

XEI Scientific Releases Evactron ES Decontamination System at Microscopy & Microanalysis Meeting

ASU Professor to Lead New Biodesign Institute initiative

Kavli Prize Laureates Meet the U.S. President

Strongest Evidence for Presence of Nanoflares on the Sun

Scientists Reveal 3D Structure of Crucial Neuroreceptor

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