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Futuristic Nanotechnology and Decades-Old Drug to Tackle Atherosclerosis

Futuristic nanotechnology has been teamed with a decades-old drug to beat atherosclerotic plaques in research conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The scientists have found that drug-la...

16 Sep 2008

NanoDynamics Completes STTR Grant for Development of NanoPly

NanoDynamics Inc. announced the completion of its six-month, $50,000 Phase IB STTR grant extension from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the research and development of a novel consolidation method for nanostruc...

15 Sep 2008

Nano-C Issued Patents Covering Manufacture of Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes

Nano-C, Inc., leading developer of nanostructured carbon materials, today announced that it has been issued U.S. Patent Nos. 7,335,344 and 7,396,520 by the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademar...

15 Sep 2008

El-Mul Selects Black Magic Plasma CVD System to Produce Carbon Nanotube-Based Electron Sources

El-Mul Technologies' E-Beam On-a- Chip(TM) platform, which demands precision placement and step repeatability of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), will be produced using AIXTRON's Black Magic system, a ...

15 Sep 2008

Historian and Nanotechnology Pioneer Honored at MSU

A professor who specializes in early American history and a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology have been appointed Letters and Science Distinguished Professors at Montana State University. Historian Billy Smith a...

13 Sep 2008

Nanotubes, Magnets and Electrically Charged Particles Leading to Quicker DNA Sequencing

Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is exploring how a system of nanotubes, magnets and electrically charged particles could lead to a quicker, cheaper way to conduct DNA sequencing. The project headed by Predrag S...

13 Sep 2008

NaturalNano R+D Director to Present at Eighth World Congress Nanocomposites 2008 Conference

NaturalNano, Inc., a developer of advanced nanomaterials and extended release nanotechnologies, today announced that its Director of Research and Development, Aaron Wagner, Ph.D., will present "Applications of Hallo...

13 Sep 2008

MonoSol Rx Granted Patent for Pharmaceutical Thin Film Manufacturing Process

MonoSol Rx, a drug delivery company specializing in quick dissolving thin film pharmaceutical products, today announced that it has been granted U.S. patent No. 7,425,292 from the United States Patent and Trademark Offic...

12 Sep 2008

Nanometer-Sized 'Cargo Ships' Targetting and Destroying Tumors

Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body's immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected.

12 Sep 2008

Grants Support R+D in Fabrication of Micro/Nanoscale Sensors, Actuators and Devices

A team from Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project, "MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Etching System for Nano/Micro Device Fabr...

12 Sep 2008