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Research and Markets Announces Availability of Advances in Lithium Battery Technologies Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "4th Annual Lithium Mobile Power 2008 - Advances in Lithium Battery Technologies for Mobile Applications Conference Documentation" report to its offerings....

From Research and Markets 17 Jan 2009

Nanoshel Launches Blog Called "Research Center"

Nanoshel has launched its blog, which has been named as "research center". It will contain latest updates from the company, researches going on around the world and other hot topics related to nanotechnology.

17 Jan 2009

Plasmonic Nanoswitch Paving Way for New Computers

The ability to stream videos online with the quality of high-end home theater systems, and to run computer programs a thousand times faster, are some of the future advances being made possible by a Penn State research te...

16 Jan 2009

Leading Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Developer Announces Financial Restructuring Plan

Raymor Industries Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RAR), a leading developer and producer of single-walled carbon nanotubes, nanomaterials and advanced materials, announces it has received from its principal financial institution a Notice to Enforce a Security under the article 244(1) of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

16 Jan 2009

Polymer Nanoparticle for Oral Anticancer Drug Delivery

One of the problems that cancer patients face is that many of the most potent anticancer therapies can be administered only by injection, which means that cancer patients must travel to receive their medication. But than...

16 Jan 2009

Biodegradable Nanoprobe Images New Blood Vessel Growth

Angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, plays a critical role in several chronic human diseases, including metastatic cancer. In fact, several new anticancer therapies are designed to starve tumors by shutting down angiogenesis, but the lack of a good assay for quantifying angiogenesis in the body has hampered the development of effective antiangiogenesis therapies.

16 Jan 2009

Best-Performing Microscopes in Europe Devoted to Studying Matter at the Atomic Scale

The Institut de physique et de chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS - CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) inaugurated its new transmission electron microscope on 9 January 2009. This instrument, which will be devoted to studying matter at the atomic scale, is one of the best-performing in Europe.

16 Jan 2009

Toxin-Nanoparticle Combo Inhibits Brain Cancer Invasion

Working with a nanoparticle designed to target and image glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, investigators at the University of Washington in Seattle have found that these same nanoparticles inhibit tumor cell invasion...

16 Jan 2009

Researchers Use Modified Anti-EGFR Antibody to Delivery Nanoparticles into Tumor Cells

Antibodies that target epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) have proven themselves as potent anticancer drugs. Now, a team of investigators led by Shuming Nie, Ph.D., and Lily Yang, Ph.D., both at the Emory University...

16 Jan 2009

Combining Liquid Crystals with Vertically Grown Carbon Nanotubes

Simulation of the electric field surrounding a single MWCNT in vacuum.Dr Tim Wilkinson from the Cambridge University Department of Engineering's Photonics Research Group has made an exciting breakthrough. He has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes to create a reconfigurable three-dimensional liquid crystal device structure.

15 Jan 2009