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Bosch Electronic Battery Sensor in Production

Bosch has started manufacture of the Electronic Battery Sensor (EBS). It can go a long way towards avoiding the most common cause of breakdowns: a flat battery. With its integrated evaluation electronics, the sensor meas...

27 Feb 2007

Microfluidic Chip Solves Biological Mystery

Using a biochemical version of a computer chip, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has solved a long-standing mystery related to the mating habits of yeast cells. The findings, described in the Advance Online Pu...

27 Feb 2007

Nanometrics Introduces New System for Critical Dimension, Overlay Metrology

Nanometrics Incorporated has introduced the IVS 185 system, capable of making critical dimension (CD) and overlay measurements using the same metrology recipe while achieving higher productivity. The ultra-low footprint ...

27 Feb 2007

Newbridge Nanotechnology Index Announces Quarterly Rebalance

Newbridge Securities Corporation has announced the quarterly rebalancing and reconstitution of its Newbridge Nanotechnology Index. This quarter saw no additions or deletions among the constituents, leaving the total numb...

27 Feb 2007

Health Care in Developing Countries Could be Greatly Improved by Nanotechnology

"Nanotechnology has the potential to generate enormous health benefits for the more than five billion people living in the developing world," according to Dr. Peter A. Singer, senior scientist at the McLaughlin...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 27 Feb 2007

Chemists Design Unique Structure to Capture the Movement of Atoms

Chemists at the University of Liverpool have designed a unique structure to capture the movement of atoms which may impact on future designs of pharmaceuticals. The research, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sci...

27 Feb 2007

New Technique to Generate Laser-Like X-Ray Beams

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a new technique to generate laser-like X-ray beams, removing a major obstacle in the decades-long quest to build a tabletop X-ray laser that co...

27 Feb 2007

Fluid Dynamics Theory Works at the Nanoscale

In 2000, Georgia Tech researchers showed that fluid dynamics theory could be modified to work on the nanoscale, albeit in a vacuum. Now, seven years later they've shown that it can be modified to work in the real wor...

27 Feb 2007

Quantum Dots Detect Metastatic Lesions

By injecting quantum dots into tumors, investigators at Carnegie Mellon University have been able to image sentinel lymph nodes in animals using near-infrared light. These results could lead to a simple, non-invasive met...

27 Feb 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Deliver siRNA into Human Cells

Short pieces of RNA, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA), have the potential to become a new class of anticancer drugs if researchers can solve the problem of how to deliver these fragile molecules to cancer cells. On...

27 Feb 2007

Quantum Rods and Dots Image Cancer Cells

Brightly fluorescent quantum dots and quantum rods are quickly becoming important tools for identifying specific molecules and cells in living systems. Two new reports demonstrate some of the ways in which cancer researc...

27 Feb 2007

Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles Track Living Cells

Stem cell therapy, primarily bone marrow transplantation, plays a key role in treating leukemia and other types of cancer. To better track the fate of stem cells injected into patients, researchers at the Siteman Center ...

27 Feb 2007

Judge Rules in Favour of Nano-Proprietary in Canon Flat Panel Law Suit

Austin, Texas-based Nano-Proprietary, Inc. announced that U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks has issued his ruling granting Nano-Proprietary's motion for summary judgment and ruling that Nano-Proprietary is entitled to t...

26 Feb 2007

Nano Chemical Systems Make Green Oils and Lubricants from Palm Oil Waste by-Product

Nano Chemical Systems Holdings, Inc., announced today that nano-enhanced, environmentally friendly, "Green" oils and lubricants can be made from a waste by-product of one Palm Biodiesel production process to of...

26 Feb 2007

Lab-on-Capillary-A Cost Effective Chemical and Biochemical Evaluation Technique

Paraytec have released a technical application report that discusses how separations in capillaries can be readily integrated with other in-capillary processes such as mixing and reaction, laying the foundations for a ve...

26 Feb 2007