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Spiky Nanoparticles May Enhance Test Sensitivity

Rods, cones, cubes and spheres - move aside. Tiny gold stars, smaller than a billionth of a meter, may hold the promise for new approaches to medical diagnoses or testing for environmental contaminants.

7 Nov 2008

Highly Magnetic Nanoparticles Soon be Tested Against One of the Most Toxic Substances Known to Man

Highly magnetic nanoparticles, originally devised for biomedical purposes, soon will be tested against one of the most toxic substances known to man - spent nuclear fuel. The project - funded by a one-year, $732,000 Depa...

6 Nov 2008

RainDance Technologies Ships RDT 1000 to The Genome Center at Washington University

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced that it has shipped its new RDT 1000 instrument and Sequence Enrichment application to The Genome Center (GC) at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, a world leader in genomics research.

From Bio-Rad Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 6 Nov 2008

Outfitting Cells with Tiny "Backpacks"

MIT engineers have outfitted cells with tiny "backpacks" that could allow them to deliver chemotherapy agents, diagnose tumors or become building blocks for tissue engineering. Michael Rubner, director of MI...

6 Nov 2008

Using Nanoparticles to Treat Viral Hepatitis

Lipoxen PLC, a bio-pharmaceutical company specialising in the development of high value differentiated biologicals, vaccines and oncology drugs, announces today that it has entered into a research agreement with the Univ...

5 Nov 2008

New Sequence Capture Algorithms Result in More Uniform Coverage

Roche NimbleGen in cooperation with the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas has launched an improved version of their Sequence Capture 385K Arrays, the groundbreaking technology...

5 Nov 2008

RainDance Technologies to Present Workshop on Sequence Enrichment using Microdroplet-Based Solutions

RainDance Technologies will present a workshop on sequence enrichment using innovative microdroplet-based solutions at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 58th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on Thursday, Novemb...

From Bio-Rad Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 4 Nov 2008

DIY Microscope Transforming University's Ability to Undertake Specialist Research

A resourceful lecturer at the University of Essex has turned his hand to a spot of DIY and built a high-tech microscope that will transform the university's ability to undertake specialist medical and biological research.

4 Nov 2008

Altogen Biosystems Launches Novel Nanoparticle-Based Transfection Reagent

Altogen Biosystems announced launch of novel Nanoparticle-based transfection reagent for use in laboratories and research facilities for animal testing. Transfection is one of the major laboratory methods used to introdu...

4 Nov 2008

Uniting Nanoparticle and Thin Film Drug Delivery Technologies

MonoSol Rx, the developers of PharmFilm(R) technology and a drug delivery company specializing in dissolving thin film pharmaceutical products, and Midatech Group Ltd, a world leader in the production and application of synthetically produced nanoparticles, announced today a partnership to develop new drug formulations combining biocompatible nanocells and PharmFilm delivery technologies.

4 Nov 2008