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Nanotech Coatings Manufacturer Ecology Coatings Enters Merger Agreement

Privately held Ecology Coatings, a leading developer of nano-engineered industrial coatings for cleaner, more efficient manufacturing, entered into a definitive agreement to merge with publicly held OCIS Corporation as p...

23 May 2007

Akustica and DALSA Form Strategic Silicon Foundry Relationship

Akustica, Inc., a pioneer in acoustic system-on-chip solutions, and DALSA Corporation's semiconductor-wafer fabrication division today announced the formation of a strategic silicon foundry relationship. The collabor...

From Teledyne DALSA 23 May 2007

NIA Comments on DEFRA's Report on Nanotechnology's Effect on Climate Change

“Defra’s report on ‘Environmentally Beneficial Nanotechnologies’ gives an excellent overview of the wideranging technical advancements that can be achieved through the control and manipulation of ...

23 May 2007

Physicists Aim to Improve Positron Emission Tomography Technology

Physicists are developing new electronics for identifying subatomic particles in high-energy accelerators that may also enable radiologists to detect cancer at an earlier, more curable stage. “The electronics ne...

23 May 2007

NanoBio Announces Positive Phase 1 Clinical Results for Topical Treatment for Onychomycosis

NanoBio Corporation today announced positive safety data from its Phase 1 clinical study of NB-002, the company's drug candidate currently in a Phase 2 clinical trial for the topical treatment of onychomycosis. T...

23 May 2007

NanoMed Pharmaceuticals Elects Gabriel Leung to Board

NanoMed Pharmaceuticals has announced today that it has elected to its Board of Directors, Gabriel Leung, President, Oncology, at OSI Pharmaceuticals, a leading biotechnology company and maker of Tarceva. "We ar...

23 May 2007

Bioconjugated Quantum Dots for Multiplex and Quantitative Immunohistochemistry

Quantum dots linked to biological molecules, such as antibodies, have shown promise as a new tool for detecting and quantifying a wide variety of cancer-associated molecules. Now, thanks to detailed studies of how to mak...

23 May 2007

Nanoparticulate Delivery of Suicide DNA to Murine Prostate and Prostate Tumors

Using nanoparticles developed by members of the Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, a team of investigators at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, in Philadelphia, has developed a DNA-based therapeutic agent ...

23 May 2007

Nanoparticle Self-Assembly Gated by Logical Proteolytic Triggers

There is a growing recognition among cancer researchers that the most accurate methods for detecting early-stage cancer will require the development of sensitive assays that can identify simultaneously multiple biomarker...

23 May 2007

Analyzing Nanoparticle Levels in Blood

With the race to develop nanoparticle-based therapeutics and imaging agents for cancer applications moving at full speed, a small but growing group of researchers is quietly developing the methods that are needed to full...

23 May 2007

New Method Weighs Single Living Cells, Nanoparticles, Even Molecules

For the first time, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to measure the mass of single cells with high accuracy. The new technique, which uses microfluidics and a nanoscale device kno...

23 May 2007

Researchers Identify Better Blood Test For Prostate Cancer

New studies of a blood protein identified recently by investigators at Johns Hopkins University suggest that there may soon be changes in the way men are screened for prostate cancer - a disease that kills tens of thousa...

23 May 2007

UMC Opens New R&D Center for Nanometer Technologies

UMC today held the grand-opening ceremony for its new R&D center for nanometer technologies to coincide with the company’s 27th anniversary. The facility, which will focus on R&D for advanced nanometer tech...

From UMC 23 May 2007

Lumera Announces New Podcast Interview with Dr. Joseph Vallner

Lumera Corporation has announced an interview with Dr. Joseph Vallner as the most recent installment of its 2007 Lumera Experts Podcasting Series. Vallner is the President and CEO of Capnia, a private bioscience company,...

23 May 2007

Financial Rewards for Nanotech Science Authors and Peer Reviewers

The open-access Nanotech Science Journal (AZoJono) confirms revenue share with authors and peer reviewers at Nanotech 2007 Santa Clara, California AZoJono -- The AZo Journal of Nanotechnology Online, residing on www.a...

23 May 2007