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Advanced Naotechnology Ship First Commercial Sales of ZinClear

Advanced Nanotechnology Limited is pleased to announce that shipments of its newly developed ZinClear-IM™ product have been made to customers in the US and Australia, marking first commercial sales of the product. ...

31 Jan 2007

Northeastern University Researchers Win $1.2m Grant to Develop Nanochips for Use as Nanobiosensors

A team of Northeastern University researchers has received a $1.2 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an innovative multifunctional nanochip with the long-term goal of it being used as a powerful nano...

31 Jan 2007

BioSante Announces Positive Bird Flu Results Using Nanoparticle-Based Vaccine

BioSante Pharmaceuticals has announced positive results of a dose ranging pre-clinical study demonstrating that its calcium phosphate (CaP) nanoparticle-based vaccine adjuvant, BioVant(TM), may serve as a vaccine adjuvan...

31 Jan 2007

Scientists Aim to Lower Cost of DNA Sequencing with Nanotechnology

DNA testing is transforming health care and medicine, but current technologies only give a snapshot of an individual's genetic makeup. Any patient wanting a complete picture of their inherited DNA, or genome, would d...

31 Jan 2007

New Single-Molecule Imaging System

Scientists are able to view active molecules within a biological motor of the nanometer scale with the help of a new imaging system far more sensitive and powerful than existing optical microscopes. A Purdue Universi...

31 Jan 2007

New Nanotechnology to Examine Single Molecules in Order to Determine Gene Expression

A new nanotechnology that can examine single molecules in order to determine gene expression, paving the way for scientists to more accurately examine single cancer cells, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team ...

30 Jan 2007

Coated Nanoparticles Deliver Medications Through Body's Sticky Mucus

The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a way to c...

30 Jan 2007

New Type of Luminescent Nanoparticles

Researchers at UC Davis have created a new type of nanoparticles that could be used in tests for environmental pollution or contamination of food products, and for medical diagnostics. The particles, about 100 to 200 ...

30 Jan 2007

Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop DNA Nanotags

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have married bright fluorescent dye molecules with DNA nanostructure templates to make nanosized fluorescent labels that hold considerable promise for studying fundamental chemical a...

30 Jan 2007

Buckyballs Ferry Drugs into Cancer Cells Safely

Scientists at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new type of buckyball nanoparticle that acts as a passkey, allowing peptide-based drugs to enter cancer cells. The new buckyballs, known as bu...

30 Jan 2007