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Researchers Engineer New Heart Tissue Using Neonatal Rat Heart Cells and Carbon Nanofiber

In the U.S., someone suffers a heart attack every 34 seconds — their heart is starved of oxygen and suffers irreparable damage. Engineering new heart tissue in the laboratory that could eventually be implanted into patients could help, and scientists are reporting a promising approach tested with rat cells. They published their results on growing cardiac muscle using a scaffold containing carbon nanofibers in the ACS journal Biomacromolecules.

From American Chemical Society 23 Jan 2014

Elena Conti and Denis Le Bihan Receive 2014 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine

The 2014 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE FOR MEDICINE is awarded to the Italian biochemist Elena Conti, Director of the Department of Structural Cell Biology at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) and to Denis Le Bihan, the French medical doctor, physicist and Director of NeuroSpin, an institute at the French Nuclear and Renewable Energy Commission (CEA) at Saclay near Paris.

23 Jan 2014

BioScale Receives Frost & Sullivan Award for its ViBE Protein Measurement Technology

Based on its recent analysis of the protein analysis market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes BioScale, Inc. with the North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation. BioScale has reduced the bottlenecks and limitations common in conventional protein analysis technologies by developing a fast, simple, ultra-sensitive, and flexible technology.

From Frost and Sullivan 23 Jan 2014

Researchers Develop Turkey-Inspired Biosensors for Identifying Toxins

Some may think of turkeys as good for just lunch meat and holiday meals. But bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, saw inspiration in the big birds for a new type of biosensor that changes color when exposed to chemical vapors. This feature makes the sensors valuable detectors of toxins or airborne pathogens.

22 Jan 2014

Researchers Create New DNA Molecular Motor for Transporting Nanoparticle Along Carbon Nanotube Length

Another recent nanotechnology research advance in line with the theme of next month’s “Foresight Technical Conference: Integration“, integrating nanodevices and nanomaterials into more complex systems, is the combination of a DNA walker motor, RNA fuel, a carbon nanotube track, and a nanoparticle cargo, all mimicking the biological molecular machinery of protein motors using ATP fuel to walk along microtubule tracks (also made of protein) inside cells.

22 Jan 2014

Contipro Introduce New Jets for Composite Nanomaterials

4SPIN device is to roll out new jets for the production of composite nanomaterials and core-shell nanofibres in Tokyo.

From Contipro 21 Jan 2014

Novel Biodegradable Scaffold Enables Sustained, Local Delivery of Gene-Silencing Factors

A team of researchers led by an NIBIB grantee at Vanderbilt University has created a biodegradable scaffold that enables sustained, local delivery of gene-silencing factors called siRNA to promote tissue regeneration.

20 Jan 2014

ERC Awards Consolidator Grant to imec Researcher for SCALPEL Project

Imec, a world leading nanoelectronics research center, proudly announces that Prof. Dr. Liesbet Lagae, R&D Manager Life Science Technologies at imec and professor in Nanobio Physics at KU Leuven, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant for her research project SCALPEL by the European Research Council (ERC).

From IMEC 16 Jan 2014

Fabrus Acquires Worldwide Rights to Chimerasome Nanocage Technology

Fabrus, Inc., a San Diego based antibody discovery company, announced today that it has obtained worldwide exclusive rights to Chimerasome™ nanocage technology originally developed by Chimeros, Inc.

15 Jan 2014

RBCC-n3D Assay System Utilizes Biocompatible Magnetic Nanoparticles to Print Cells Into 3D Structures

Rainbow Coral Corp.’s joint venture partner, Nano3D Biosciences (n3D), has developed the first commercially available 3D bioprinting system designed for high throughput and high-content drug screening, and the global market potential for the device points to very bright future for the company.

15 Jan 2014

Bionanotechnology News

Researchers Engineer New Heart Tissue Using Neonatal Rat Heart Cells and Carbon Nanofiber

Elena Conti and Denis Le Bihan Receive 2014 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine

BioScale Receives Frost & Sullivan Award for its ViBE Protein Measurement Technology

Researchers Develop Turkey-Inspired Biosensors for Identifying Toxins

Researchers Create New DNA Molecular Motor for Transporting Nanoparticle Along Carbon Nanotube Length

Contipro Introduce New Jets for Composite Nanomaterials

Novel Biodegradable Scaffold Enables Sustained, Local Delivery of Gene-Silencing Factors

ERC Awards Consolidator Grant to imec Researcher for SCALPEL Project

Fabrus Acquires Worldwide Rights to Chimerasome Nanocage Technology

RBCC-n3D Assay System Utilizes Biocompatible Magnetic Nanoparticles to Print Cells Into 3D Structures

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