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Researcher Wins Young Faculty Award from DARPA

University of Kentucky electrical and computer engineering researcher J. Todd Hastings has won a two-year, $300,000 Young Faculty Award from the national Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

4 Aug 2009

MIT Researchers Discover Cause of Brittle Bone Disease

The weak tendons and fragile bones characteristic of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, stem from a genetic mutation that causes the incorrect substitution of a single amino acid in the chain of thousands of amino acids making up a collagen molecule, the basic building block of bone and tendon.

4 Aug 2009

New Fluorescent Probe Technique Shedding Light on Development of Chronic Inflammatory Lung Diseases

A team of researchers in Germany has used a new technique to shed light on the development of chronic inflammatory lung diseases such as emphysema and bronchitis. The study, which was partly funded by the EU, is publishe...

4 Aug 2009

New Project Bringing World's Top Scientists Together

A new $2.7 million (€1.7 million) EU funded project involving 17 world-leading research institutions - including the University of Sydney - will encourage the transfer of ideas and knowledge between top scientists a...

4 Aug 2009

Recent Issue of JBS Emphasizes the Importance of Acoustic Liquid Handling in Drug Discovery

The most recent edition of the Journal of Biomolecular Screening, the world's leading peer-reviewed publication on drug discovery sciences, focused on the significant advances made recently in the field of compound management. In this special edition over half of the sixteen articles specifically mention the Labcyte Echo liquid handlers.

4 Aug 2009

Nanotechnology Sniffing Out Kidney Diseases in Breath Samples

A carbon nanosensor "electronic nose" - first developed by Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers to detect cancer from breath samples - has been modified to identify chronic renal failure (CRF). T...

3 Aug 2009

Fifth Product Approved by USFDA Licensing Elan's Nanocrystal Technology for Various Formulations

Elan Drug Technologies, a business unit of Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) announces the first approval of a long-acting injectable formulation using Elan Drug Technologies' proprietary NanoCrystal technology.

From Perrigo Company plc 3 Aug 2009

Brookhaven Scientists Devised Way to Encapsulate Bacteria in a Synthetic Polymer Hydrogel

Bacteria play a role in myriad industrial processes from fermentation to cleaning up environmental pollution. But floating freely in solution, the microbial cells constantly multiply, generating biomass that must be removed periodically, causing downtime. Additionally, the microorganisms cannot be localized to a specific region of interest.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 3 Aug 2009

Tiny Device to 'Sniff Out' Disease, Heart Attacks, Poison And Environmental Pollution

Like the sensitive seismographs that can pick up tremors of impending earthquakes long before they strike, a similar invention from Tel Aviv University researchers may change the face of molecular biology.

3 Aug 2009

Illuminating Brain Tumors using Fluorescent Nanoparticles

Brain cancer is among the deadliest of cancers. It's also one of the hardest to treat. Imaging results are often imprecise because brain cancers are extremely invasive. Surgeons must saw through the skull and safely remove as much of the tumor as they can. Then doctors use radiation or chemotherapy to destroy cancerous cells in the surrounding tissue.

3 Aug 2009