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Researchers Using Nanotechnology to Develop Low-Cost Disposable Blood-Testing Kits

Professor Peter Ashburn is leading a team of University researchers who are developing low-cost, disposable blood-testing kits that can be made available in GPs' surgeries.

23 Apr 2009

New Lab on a Chip Capable of Being Programmed to Perform Variety of Jobs

Researchers have designed a lab on a chip capable of being programmed to perform a variety of jobs, a step toward more widespread use of the miniature analytical tools used to measure everything from blood glucose to viruses, bacteria to genes.

21 Apr 2009

Biohazard Water Analyzer Employs a Revolutionary Nanotechnology-Based Biosensor

Early WarningTM today displayed its Biohazard Water Analyzer which offers the next generation in microbial testing. Using a unique combination of advanced technologies, the Analyzer goes beyond lab culturing of indicator coliforms and directly measures individual species of pathogenic bacteria, protozoa and viruses in the same test.

17 Apr 2009

Major Impact Envisioned for Pharmaceutical, Food and Agriculture Industries

Scientists studying how marine bacteria move have discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed brethren, impelling the microbes in opposite directions.

15 Apr 2009

New Method Could Lead to Narrower Chip Patterns

Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light.

9 Apr 2009

Nanotechnology Being Used to Develop Low-Cost Disposable Blood-Testing Kit

Nanotechnology is being used by academics at the University of Southampton to develop low-cost, disposable blood-testing kits that can be made available in GPs' surgeries. Professor Peter Ashburn, Head of the Nano...

8 Apr 2009

Nano-Camo for Fashionistas and Environmentalists

Certain fish species blend with their environment by changing color. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have demonstrated that, in theory, they could cause synthetic materials to change color like fish do.

8 Apr 2009

First-Ever Nanoscale Fluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer (billionth of a meter) level to engineer the first-ever nanoscale fluidic device with complex three-dimensional surfaces.

7 Apr 2009

Chamber Separates Nanoparticles Like a 'Coin Sorter'

Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer (billionth of a meter) level and used it to develop a method for engineering the first-ever nanoscale fluidic (nanofluidic) device with complex three-dimensional surfaces.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 31 Mar 2009

Fluidigm Developing Quantification System Allowing Sequencing of Rare Samples

Fluidigm Corporation today announced a sample quantification system that allows researchers to sequence their libraries of rare samples and also dramatically lower costs, improve data quality and speed up time-to-results for scientists performing next-generation DNA sequencing.

From Standard BioTools 30 Mar 2009