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Findings Demonstrate Superior Efficacy of Nanoparticle-Based MR Diagnostic Technology

T2 Biosystems, Inc., a company developing the first portable medical diagnostic products which combine nanotechnology and miniaturized magnetic resonance (MR) technology, today announced significant research findings tha...

16 Jul 2008

SurModics Licensed Lipid Nanoparticle Technology from PharmaSol

SurModics, Inc., a leading provider of surface modification and drug delivery technologies to the healthcare industry, announced today that its Brookwood Pharmaceuticals subsidiary has licensed lipid nanoparticle technol...

15 Jul 2008

Research and Markets Announces Addition of Bio-Nanotechnology Report to their Offering

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Bio Nanotechnology" report to their offering. The Bionanotechnology Market Insight Report studies the impact of Nanotechnology in various Biotechnolog...

14 Jul 2008

US Supplier of Chromatographic Columns Licenses LBL Technology

Advanced Materials Technology (AMT), a US manufacturer and developer of columns for HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography), and the Berlin-based Capsulution NanoScience AG signed in June a license contract for the use of the LBL® Technology that was originally developed for the manufacture of nano- and microcapsules by the Max Planck Society, Germany's largest research foundation, and for which Capsulution owns the worldwide marketing rights.

14 Jul 2008

Micro-Sized Sewing Machine to Sew Long Threads of DNA into Shape

Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a unique way to manipulate delicate DNA chains without breaking them.

11 Jul 2008

Nanometer-Sized Molecular Motors Discovered by Researchers

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I is regulated by force. The motor puts tension on cell...

10 Jul 2008

Unique Research Facility to Study Trace Metals and Elements in Tissues

Agilent Technologies, Inc. and University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have teamed up to establish a unique research facility here to study trace metals and other elements in tissue, and their effects on health. The UT...

10 Jul 2008

Nanoparticle-Based Assay Accurate and Sensitive Enough for Clinical Use

Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for meas...

10 Jul 2008

A Method for Imaging Nanoparticles Inside Cells

Borrowing from a Nobel Prize-winning technique credited with starting the nanotechnology revolution, a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Northwestern University's Nanomaterials for Can...

10 Jul 2008

NIST Researchers Developed Simplified Process for Producing Water-Soluble Quantum Dots

Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a simplified, low-cost process for producing high-quality, water-soluble quantum dots for biomedical applications. By usin...

10 Jul 2008