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NanoBioMagnetics Awarded NSF Phase I SBIR Grant

Officials at NanoBioMagnetics announced today that the company has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effectiveness of magnetically ve...

18 Jun 2010

New Microscopic Device Assists Biologists in Single-Molecule Experiments

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have created a microscopic device to assist biologists in making very fast molecular measurements that aid the understanding of protein folding. This development may help elucidate bio...

18 Jun 2010

Savara to Receive ETF Grant to Develop New NanoCluster-Based Therapies

Savara, Inc., an inhalation drug delivery company, today announced that it has been chosen by the state of Texas as the recipient of a commercialization award funded through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF)....

16 Jun 2010

Researchers Use Simple Reaction Chamber with 254-nm Photon Source to Study RNA Building Blocks

For scientists attempting to understand how the building blocks of RNA originated on Earth, guanine -- the G in the four-letter code of life -- has proven to be a particular challenge.

16 Jun 2010

Researchers Work to Create Artificial Nanomembrane of Fuel Cell

Every living cell in our body can do it: covered with a thin membrane known as a cell membrane or nanomembrane, the cells can deliberately let specific substances in and out.

16 Jun 2010

Researchers Explain Beading Mechanism of Saliva and Other Complex Fluids

Researchers at Rice University, Purdue University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have solved a long-standing mystery about why some fluids containing polymers -- including saliva -- form beads when th...

15 Jun 2010

Access Pharma to Conduct Cobalamin siRNA Program at CNSI Symposium

ACCESS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (OTC:ACCP) (BULLETIN BOARD: ACCP) , a biopharmaceutical company specializing in products for cancer and supportive care, announced that its Senior VP of R&D, David Nowotnik, Ph.D., w...

From Abeona Therapeutics Inc. 15 Jun 2010

Researchers Use Novel Gene Therapy to Prevent Blindness Caused by Retinitis Pigmentosa

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to use a radical new type of gene therapy to prevent blindness caused by retinitis pigmentosa, giving hope to the estimated 100,000 Americans who suffer from this debilitating disease.

14 Jun 2010

Bacterial Study May Help Develop New and Effective Drugs for Infections

For a successful infection, bacteria must outwit the immune system of the host. To this aim, they deliver so-called virulence factors through a transport channel located in the bacterial membrane.

14 Jun 2010

WaferGen Offers Two SmartChip Gene Expression Profiling Panels

WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced the availability of two gene expression profiling panels for the SmartChip Real-Time PCR System that will enable microRNA and cancer pathway profiling capability.

From WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. 11 Jun 2010