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Cerulean Pharma to Discuss Pre-Clinical and Clinical Results of Nanopharmaceutical CRLX101 at AACR Meeting

Cerulean Pharma Inc., a leader in dynamically tumor-targeted nanopharmaceuticals, today announced that researchers will present both pre-clinical and clinical data on Cerulean's Phase 2 candidate, CRLX101, in sessions at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting.

From Cerulean Pharma 5 Apr 2013

New Research Collaboration to Develop Next-Generation MEMS Devices

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has begun working with research partners to develop a pilot line for next-generation MEMS devices augmented with advanced technologies such as piezoelectric or magnetic materials and 3D packaging.

From STMicroelectronics 5 Apr 2013

ARM Cortex-A57 Processor to be Implemented on TSMC's 16-nm FinFET Process

Fulfilling the promise of performance and power scaling at 16 nanometers, ARM and Cadence today announced details behind their collaboration to implement the first ARM® Cortex®-A57 processor on TSMC's 16-nanometer (nm) FinFET manufacturing process.

From Cadence Design Systems 5 Apr 2013

Side-Effect-Free Radiation Cancer Therapy Using Nanochemistry

Cancer painfully ends more than 500,000 lives in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The scientific crusade against cancer recently achieved a victory under the leadership of University of Missouri Curators' Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne.

5 Apr 2013

Bruker Introduces New AFM Configuration for Semiconductor Characterization

Bruker announced today the release of the Dimension Icon® SSRM-HR, a new atomic force microscope (AFM) configuration including the Scanning Spreading Resistance Microscopy (SSRM) module, designed specifically for high-resolution (HR) semiconductor characterization.

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 5 Apr 2013

UMass Faculty Awarded CVIP Technology Development Fund Grant for Nanoparticle Technology

Four UMass Medical School faculty members have received 2013 Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property (CVIP) Technology Development Fund grants awarded by the UMass President’s Office.

4 Apr 2013

MGH Develops CTC-iChip Microfluidic System

A new system for isolating rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) – living solid tumor cells found at low levels in the bloodstream – shows significant improvement over previously developed devices and does not require prior identification of tumor-specific target molecules.

4 Apr 2013

Nanocomposite Squid Beak Inspires Safer Medical Devices

Researchers led by scientists at Case Western Reserve University have turned to an unlikely model to make medical devices safer and more comfortable—a squid's beak.

4 Apr 2013

Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology May Play a Major Role in the Brain Activity Mapping Project

The scientific tools are not yet available to build a comprehensive map of the activity in the most complicated 3 pounds of material in the world — the human brain, scientists say in a newly published article.

From American Chemical Society 4 Apr 2013

Omnetics Offers Watertight Nano-Sized Connectors for Miniature Electronics Applications

Many of the world's smallest and ruggedized ultra-miniature circular connectors are used within medical, commercial and military applications that require the best electrical performance for portable and miniature electronics. To ensure integrity, Omnetics used gold plated contacts that are polarized and shrouded by its unique liquid crystal polymer insulators.

From Omnetics Connector Corporation 4 Apr 2013

Cray XC30 Supercomputer Helps Perform Large Scale Simulations in Nanotechnology

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that the Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (JAIST) has put Japan and Asia's first Cray XC30 supercomputer into production. JAIST, one of Japan's premier academic research centers, is using its new Cray XC30 supercomputer for research into massively parallel programming and a variety of scientific pursuits.

4 Apr 2013

Perfect Lithium Seeks Patent for Technology to Boost Performance of Nano-Scale Ceramic Powders

Vancouver-based Perfect Lithium Corp. ("Perfect Lithium or the "Company") has filed patents for its innovative materials processing technology. These novel methods have the potential to reduce energy storage costs ($/kWh) of lithium-ion battery materials by as much as 50%.

4 Apr 2013

Comprehensive Analysis of Global Molecular, Nanoscale and Atomic Imaging Technologies Markets

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Markets and Technologies for Molecular, Nanoscale and Atomic Imaging

4 Apr 2013

Novel Process to Precisely Functionalize Nanowires

Bottom-up synthesis of nanowires through metal-catalyzed vapor phase epitaxy is a very attractive process to generate high-quality nanowires thus providing an additional degree of freedom in design of innovative devices that extend beyond what is achievable with the current technologies.

4 Apr 2013

Silicon Atoms Dance on Graphene Sheet

Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 4 Apr 2013

Nanotechnology News

Cerulean Pharma to Discuss Pre-Clinical and Clinical Results of Nanopharmaceutical CRLX101 at AACR Meeting

New Research Collaboration to Develop Next-Generation MEMS Devices

ARM Cortex-A57 Processor to be Implemented on TSMC's 16-nm FinFET Process

Side-Effect-Free Radiation Cancer Therapy Using Nanochemistry

Bruker Introduces New AFM Configuration for Semiconductor Characterization

UMass Faculty Awarded CVIP Technology Development Fund Grant for Nanoparticle Technology

MGH Develops CTC-iChip Microfluidic System

Nanocomposite Squid Beak Inspires Safer Medical Devices

Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology May Play a Major Role in the Brain Activity Mapping Project

Omnetics Offers Watertight Nano-Sized Connectors for Miniature Electronics Applications

Cray XC30 Supercomputer Helps Perform Large Scale Simulations in Nanotechnology

Perfect Lithium Seeks Patent for Technology to Boost Performance of Nano-Scale Ceramic Powders

Comprehensive Analysis of Global Molecular, Nanoscale and Atomic Imaging Technologies Markets

Novel Process to Precisely Functionalize Nanowires

Silicon Atoms Dance on Graphene Sheet

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