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BioForce Nanosciences Receives Second Half of a $400,000 NIH Grant

BioForce Nanosciences, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc., announced today the receipt of the second year of funding under a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovat...

30 Jul 2007

Unidym’s “Tiniest Carbon Wires” are Making a Big Impact

It’s made from carbon and it’s one atom thick. It has a diameter of about a nanometer – approximately 50,000 times as small as the width of a human hair, and the same diameter as that of DNA. It’s...

30 Jul 2007

Nanopoint Wins International Design Excellence Award With cellTRAY™ For Cell Culturing and Nanotechnology

Nanopoint won its first design award in the international BusinessWeek/IDSA competition this month, with the innovative Nanopoint cellTRAY taking gold in the Medical and Scientific Products category. The annual intern...

From Nanopoint Inc. 26 Jul 2007

FDA Nanotechnology Task Force Takes Positive Step Forward

According to Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Director David Rejeski, “Today, FDA took a step forward in fulfilling its responsibilities for nanotechnology oversight. If nanotechnology regulation was a baseball...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 26 Jul 2007

Nanoscale Dots Target and Track Apoptosis

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a hallmark effect triggered by effective anticancer drugs. Now, researchers in Korea have developed a biocompatible, fluorescent nanoparticle that could provide an early sign that ...

25 Jul 2007

Using Nanotechnology to Detect Contaminants in Food and Water

Researchers have created two tiny instruments capable of detecting a range of contaminants, from molecules to whole bacteria, in food and water, according to an article in the August issue of Microbiology Today. Canti...

23 Jul 2007

Yale Biomedical Engineer Creating Nanotech Drug Delivery with L’Oreal USA Award

Kim Woodrow, a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical engineering at Yale, is one of the five American women recently honored by L'Oréal USA with their 2007 Fellowships for Women in Science. Woodrow is developing ...

18 Jul 2007

Lumera Corporation Forms New Bioscience Subsidiary

Lumera Corporation, a leader in the emerging field of nanotechnology, today announced that it has formed a wholly owned subsidiary known as Plexera Bioscience LLC. The new subsidiary will serve as the operations unit of ...

18 Jul 2007

Researchers Explore New Method For Early Disease Diagnosis

Purdue University researchers worked with the Indiana University School of Medicine to establish a technique that provides a new approach for detecting a number of genetic disorders found in infants and young children. ...

18 Jul 2007

Innovative Physics Device May Revolutionize Cancer Treatment and Introduce Proton Therapy

Using innovative physics, researchers have proposed a system that may one day bring proton therapy, a state-of-the-art cancer treatment method currently available only at a handful of centers, to radiation treatment cent...

17 Jul 2007