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Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Detects Oral Cancer Marker in Minutes

Using a microfluidic device designed to capture and enrich cells from biological samples, a research team at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a test that can detect an important early marker for oral squam...

23 Aug 2007

Controlling Nanoparticle Self Assembly With DNA

Using DNA, the molecule that carries life's genetic instructions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are studying how to control both the speed of nanoparticle assembly ...

22 Aug 2007

New Soft Tapping Mode AFM Probes from BudgetSensors

BudgetSensors®, a Bulgarian manufacturer of silicon and silicon nitride probes, as well as AFM accessories for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), announces a new AFM probes type - the Soft Tapping Mode AFM Probes Tap150...

17 Aug 2007

$25,000 Grant Awarded for Nanostimulator Research On Amplification in the Inner Ear

The $25,000 PI NanoInnovation Grant™ was awarded to Andrea Lelli, Eric A. Stauffer and Jeffrey R. Holt, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA, for the follo...

16 Aug 2007

Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer Headed For Soil Testing On Mars

Supporting the first mission to the polar regions of Mars, Transfer Engineering's innovative vacuum technology is aboard NASA's Phoenix spacecraft, which launched August 4 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...

16 Aug 2007

Nanosurf Atomic Force Microscope Headed For Mars

Switzerland’s Liestal-based Nanosurf AG is proud to make their own contribution to NASA’s recent Mars Mission named Phoenix. The Phoenix probe is expected to study the history of water and the habitability of...

15 Aug 2007

State-of-the-Art Nanotechnology Centre Opens in Bulgaria

BudgetSensors®, a Bulgarian manufacturer of silicon and silicon nitride probes, as well as AFM accessories for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), has opened a state of the art Nanotechnology Centre in Sofia, Bulgaria. ...

14 Aug 2007

Nanoscale Imaging of Layers Without The Need To Prepare Thin Sample Sections

A team led by Stefan Hell and Mariano Bossi at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry is now leading the way with a technique called optical 3D far-field microscopy with nanoscale resolution, good signal-to-n...

13 Aug 2007

Ultrasonic Linear Piezo Motor Actuators for Automation

PI(Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision motion-control and sensing equipment for bio / nanotechnology, photonics, semiconductor and life science applications -- offers a new brochure on Ultr...

10 Aug 2007

Emory Physicist Opens New Window on Glass Puzzle

When most people look at a window, they see solid panes of glass, but for decades, physicists have pondered the mysteries of window glass: Is glass a solid, or merely an extremely slow moving liquid. An Emory University ...

10 Aug 2007