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Provider of Innovative Microdroplet-Based Solution Reviews Opportunities for Growth at Health Care Conference

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced it will be shipping its first commercial Sequence Enrichment Solut...

17 Mar 2009

Duke University To Host DNA Nanotechnology Symposium

A one day symposium on using DNA to build structures and machinery on millionths and billionths of a meter scales will bring leading experts from Denmark and throughout the United States to Duke University on Friday, Mar...

17 Mar 2009

Synthetic Biology - Transforming Cells into Microscopic Biological Computers

The roots of synthetic biology stretch back only eight years, and the discipline is so new that it does not yet have an established definition. On the one hand, it can be considered from a microscopic and fundamental perspective - to a certain extent more closely related to chemistry - as the synthesis of new, biologically important molecules (for example, nucleotides).

17 Mar 2009

Developer of Breakthrough Nanoscale Platforms for Biomedical Research Receives Phase II Grant from NHGRI

BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough nanoscale platforms for biomedical research, molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine, today announced receipt of a Phase II grant from the National Human Genome Re...

17 Mar 2009

New Phenomenon that Can be Used to Probe Structural Properties of Nanoscopic Materials

By reversing a process that converts electrical signals into sounds heard out of a cell phone, researchers may have a new tool to enhance the way computer chips, LEDs and transistors are built. Lawrence Livermore Nati...

16 Mar 2009

University Chooses Latest Technology From Carestream Molecular Imaging For Disease Research

The University of Notre Dame is using the latest in vivo and in vitro optical molecular imaging technology from Carestream Molecular Imaging as part of its cutting-edge research of infectious disease, bone disease, cancer and other medical applications.

16 Mar 2009

Nanoprobes Pinpointing the Location of Tumors

A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.

16 Mar 2009

Fluidigm’s New Digital Array Delivers Peak Levels of Throughput for Digital PCR

Today Fluidigm introduced its new 48.770 Digital Array, the highest density commercially available integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) ever. This IFC is capable of testing up to 48 individual samples at a time and automatically partitioning each of the samples into separate sets of 770 reaction chambers - delivering a total of 36,960 simultaneous digital PCR reactions.

From Standard BioTools 16 Mar 2009

Affymetrix and Genisphere Announce Launch of New, Best-in-Class Solution for microRNA Research Studies

Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) and Genisphere Inc. today announced the launch of a new, best-in-class solution for microRNA (miRNA) research studies. Encompassing assay, array, and software, the solution offers comprehen...

16 Mar 2009

Nanotechnology Center Planned to Spur Energy Innovation and Job Creation

The Nano World Headquarters (NWHQ), located in the Houston, Texas region, will serve as the leading global center for scientific nanotechnology collaboration and as an accelerator for start-up companies. The initiative -...

14 Mar 2009