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Visualizing Vulnerable Plaques that Can Cause Heart Attack using NanoScan's Novel Contrast Agent

NanoScan Imaging, LLC, a developer of radio-opaque contrast agents for use with computed tomography (CT) to aid in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and cancer, today announced the publication of new data demonstra...

11 Jun 2009

Conference Highlights New Development in Nanotechnology

Over 50 International speakers to present their findings, with a keynote by Nobel Laureate, Douglas Osheroff, professor of Stanford University. "The convergence of Nano and Bio technology underscores the need for co...

11 Jun 2009

Scientists Counteract Nanoparticle Lung Damage in Mice

Scientists have identified for the first time a mechanism by which nanoparticles cause lung damage and have demonstrated that it can be combated by blocking the process involved, taking a step toward addressing the growi...

10 Jun 2009

RainDance Technologies Announces Shipment of RDT 1000 and Sequence Enrichment Solution to TGen

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced the shipment of an RDT 1000 and Sequence Enrichment Solution to the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).

From Bio-Rad Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 10 Jun 2009

Partnership Results in Promising New Tool for Fighting Infections

Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it&#39...

10 Jun 2009

Sniffing Out Chronic Renal Failure in its Earliest and Most Treatable Stages

Scientists in Israel have identified the key substances in exhaled breath associated with healthy and diseased kidneys -raising expectations, they say, for development of long-sought diagnostic and screening tests that literally sniff out chronic renal failure (CRF) in its earliest and most treatable stages.

10 Jun 2009

SAFENANO Co-Hosts Pre-Conference Workshop on Nanotechnology Risk Management at NanoMaterials '09

SAFENANO, the UK's premier resource on Nanotechnology Health + Safety, is co-hosting a Pre-Conference workshop on Nanotechnology Risk Management at the forthcoming NanoMaterials '09 conference in Bonn, Germany. L...

10 Jun 2009

JPK Announces Installation of NanoTracker Optical Tweezers System at Leiden University

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce the installation of its unique NanoTracker™ optical tweezers system in the laboratory of Dr. Remus Dame at Leiden University.

From Bruker BioAFM 10 Jun 2009

Completely New Material Having Significance in Carbon-Carbon Composite Field and Other Applications

JenLaur Ltd., LLC is announcing the discovery of a template for creation of amino acids, nucleosides, and RNA through a proprietary patent pending method of metallofullerene production.

10 Jun 2009

Making Nanoparticle Films Strong Enough so They Don't Disintegrate at the Slightest Touch

Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don't disintegrate at the slightest touch.

9 Jun 2009