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Rockefeller University Professor Awarded EUREKA Grant for Project Aimed at Exploiting Nanosyringe

C. Erec Stebbins, associate professor at The Rockefeller University, has been awarded an inaugural EUREKA grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project aimed at exploiting a bacteria-based "nanosyringe&...

4 Sep 2008

Nanophotonics Pioneer Honored for Contributions to Nanoparticle Synthesis

Rice University nanophotonics pioneer Naomi Halas has won one of nanotechnology's top academic honors, the Research Excellence Award from the University of Pennsylvania's Nano/Bio Interface Center (NBIC). Hala...

4 Sep 2008

Double-Emulsions Hold Potential for Targeted Drug Delivery

UCLA scientists have succeeded in making unique nanoscale droplets that are much smaller than a human cell and can potentially be used to deliver pharmaceuticals. "What we found that was unexpected was within ea...

4 Sep 2008

License Agreement Provides Veteran Business Leadership to Deliver New Ideas to Market

LGE Execs, an Austin based firm formed to help companies and organizations grow and succeed, today announced a licensing agreement with the Texas Tech University System (TTUS). The agreement will allow LGE Execs to help ...

3 Sep 2008

NIH Grant to Identify and Develop Molecular Tools Known as Small Molecules

Researchers at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT today announced that they have been chosen to receive a six-year, ~ $86M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify and develop molecular tools kn...

3 Sep 2008

New Molecular Tools to Aid in Drug Development Programmes

Scientists have designed, developed and tested new molecular tools for stem cell research to direct the formation of certain tissue types for use in drug development programmes.

3 Sep 2008

Regents Professor Wins 2007 Medal of Science for His Contributions in Nanotechnology

Mostafa El-Sayed, Regents Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has just been awarded the 2007 Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor in the field.

3 Sep 2008

Researchers Developed System Eliminating Need for Antibiotics in Production of Biopharmaceuticals

Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) have developed a system that eliminates the need for antibiotics and resistance genes in the engineering of industrial and medical products. The method involves safer, le...

3 Sep 2008

A Real-Time Analysis of Early Diagnosis of Cancer Markers

A research project entitled "A real-time analysis of the early diagnosis of cancer markers", undertaken by the CAS Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), recently passed the acceptance check by an exp...

2 Sep 2008

Molecular Imaging to Play Key Role in Disease Detection and Therapy Response

Molecular imaging aims at the use of imaging probes to visualize specific cellular or sub cellular processes that occur before changes in morphology and function. This is highly relevant because impairments of such proce...

1 Sep 2008