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Using Nanoparticles to Deliver Treatments to Injured Brain and Spinal Cord Cells

Purdue University researchers have developed a method of using nanoparticles to deliver treatments to injured brain and spinal cord cells. A team led by Richard Borgens of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Cent...

2 Oct 2008

Team of German Researchers to Receive Honda Prize 2008

The Honda Foundation, co-founded by Soichiro Honda and his younger brother Benjiro Honda, and currently headed by Hiromori Kawashima, is pleased to announce the Honda Prize for the year 2008 will be awarded to a German team of researchers of electron microscopy led by Dr. Maximilian Haider, Dr. Harald Rose, and Dr. Knut Urban.

1 Oct 2008

Brandeis Researchers Use Advanced Scientific Techniques to Reveal How Gene Regulation Works

A novel Brandeis University study this week in PLoS Biology reports on some of the molecular gymnastics performed by a protein involved in regulating DNA transcription. Using state-of-the art tools, researchers observed ...

30 Sep 2008

SAIC-Frederick Awarded Follow-On Contract to Support National Cancer Institute

Science Applications International Corporation today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary SAIC-Frederick, Inc. has been awarded a follow-on contract by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to provide operations and ...

30 Sep 2008

Sun Pharma to Use FEI Cryo-Electron Microscopy for Nanoparticle Research

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, announced today the installation of a solution based upon FEI's Tecnai(TM) Spirit cryo-transmission electron microscope (TEM) and three-dimensional (3D) tomography software at Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Mumbai, India. Sun Pharmaceutical will use FEI's 3D imaging solution for quality control of drug-loaded vesicles to speed up the development of new therapeutics.

29 Sep 2008

Squeezing Light into Sub-Wavelength Spots

In a new study, physicists at the University of Toronto have invented a simple structure called a meta-screen, designed to focus light into tiny spots smaller than the wavelength of the photons in use. These sub-waveleng...

26 Sep 2008

NSF Funded Center Explores the Physics of Biological Systems

The National Science Foundation announced this month that it is funding a new Physics Frontiers Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center for the Physics of Living Cells is one of nine Physics ...

25 Sep 2008

MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering Wins Six-Year $19.2 Million NSF Grant

Amid an increasingly challenging federal funding environment, MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) has won a six-year, $19.2 million National Science Foundation grant that will support research, ...

24 Sep 2008

eBioscience Expands Portfolio with Introduction of eFluor Nanocrystals Product Line

eBioscience Corporation, a leading global provider of innovative high quality cell analysis reagents, announced today the expansion of its multicolor cellular analysis portfolio with the introduction of its eFluor(TM) br...

23 Sep 2008

Interactive Technology Enhances Undergraduate Nanotechnology Education

Equations or graphs can explain what happens when atoms bump into each other, but a technology called haptics could help students know how it feels. A Purdue University researcher says haptic, or force-feedback, technology can be used in a variety of classroom subjects, especially in the sciences.

23 Sep 2008