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pSivida Receives NASDAQ Notification Related to Minimum Bid Price

pSivida Limited, a global drug delivery company, today announced that on December 27, 2007, the Company received a letter from the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Department notifying the Company that, for the last 30 cons...

From EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2 Jan 2008

Future Forecasts and Challenges Ahead for Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials and Nanomachines

The DC-based research and consulting firm Social Technologies recently released a series of 12 briefs that shed light on the top areas for technology innovation through 2025. The brief on "nanomaterials," by fu...

31 Dec 2007

Cancers to be Detected Earlier With the Help of Gold Nanoparticle Probes

Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasivel...

24 Dec 2007

Quantum Chemical Methods Being Investigated for New Drug Development

New research, led by a Virginia Tech chemist, may someday help natural-products chemists decrease by years the amount of time it takes for the development of certain types of medicinal drugs. The research by T. Daniel Cr...

21 Dec 2007

Human Genetic Variation Named as Science "Breakthrough of the Year"

In 2007, researchers were dazzled by the degree to which genomes differ from one human to another and began to understand the role of these variations in disease and personal traits. Science and its publisher, AAAS, the ...

21 Dec 2007

DropArray Miniaturized Bioassay to Lead to Cheaper Drugs

A standard laboratory tool for measuring pharmacological activity of biological substances and performing other related tests may soon be replaced by a new miniaturized bioassay that will be faster, cheaper and more effi...

20 Dec 2007

Israeli Nanotechnology Researchers Manage to Put Entire Hebrew Bible on the Head of a Pin With Room to Spare

Technion researchers have succeeded in putting a full version of the Hebrew Bible, with vowel points, on 0.5 square millimeters – an area smaller than the size of a pinhead. $$IMAGE$$ The nano-Bible was writt...

20 Dec 2007

Microchip Based Device can Analyze Cancer Cells in a Blood Sample

A team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Biomicroelectromechanical Systems (BioMEMS) Resource Center and the MGH Cancer Center has developed a microchip-based device that can isolate, enumera...

20 Dec 2007

Plasmonics Used to Develop Invisibility Cloak

Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond ...

19 Dec 2007

Cancer Treatment Based on Nanoparticles to be Commercialised as Part of New Nanotechnology Industry Partnership

The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and NanoPacific Holdings Inc. have announced a partnership to commercialize a mechanized, nanoparticle-based technology that could lead to prolonged lives of enhanced q...

18 Dec 2007