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Elsevier Announces Acquisition of the Publishing Assets of William Andrew

Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of the publishing assets of William Andrew, Inc. ("William Andrew").

From Elsevier B.V 21 Jan 2009

Unique Solution to Provide Fast and Efficient Impurity Analysis of Solid Metals

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has developed a unique solution to provide fast and efficient impurity analysis of solid metals, including steels, platinum group metals, gold and other...

20 Jan 2009

Developer of Disease-Destroying Nanotechnology Announces Relocation of HQ and Laboratory

PDS Biotechnology Corporation, a developer of disease-destroying nanotechnology, announced today it will relocate its Cincinnati headquarters and laboratory here with the help of a $2 million grant from the state's 2...

19 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

Novel Synthetic Nanoparticle Developed for Noninvasive Imaging of Angiogenesis

Adah Almutairi, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, is first author of a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the ...

14 Jan 2009

Removing Lead from Blood Using Magnetic Nanoparticles

Lead is one of the most dangerous heavy metals and is especially toxic to children. Safe and effective detoxification processes are needed. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, a Korean team led by Won Seok Han and Jong Hwa Jung has developed a new, highly promising approach. It is based on a fluorescence receptor that selectively and strongly binds to lead ions.

14 Jan 2009

Japanese Police Selects Bruker's Mass Spectrometers for Exact Mass Analysis

Bruker Daltonics announced today that it has signed a contract with the Japanese National Police Agency (NPA) for the supply of 51 units of its state-of-the-art ESI-TOF system, micrOTOF-II focus. The contract with a value of more than $12 million USD includes micrOTOF-II systems to be installed in each of the NPA's Prefecture forensic laboratories, as well as HPLC and CE systems, providing a complete analysis package.

14 Jan 2009

Apogee Power Launches Nanotechnology Enhanced Lithium Cordless Power Tool Batteries

Apogee Power Inc. a Silicon Valley based clean tech battery research company announces the launch of its Nano-Technology Enhanced, Lithium cordless power tools and power tool replacement batteries. Apogee's patented LiCoO2 and C-LiFePO4 battery packs and cordless tools are the only cost effective GREEN technology that can replace toxic NiCd and NiMh.

14 Jan 2009

The Use of Nanotechnology in Environmental Remediation

In October 2008, the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) released a fact sheet providing an overview on the use of nanotechnology in environmental remediation (US EPA Fact Sheet, 2008). Because of their increased...

13 Jan 2009

Voluntary Approach Captures Only a Thin Slice of Nanomaterials in Use or Development in the U.S.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has acknowledged that its voluntary approach to reporting has yielded only limited information on a small fraction of the hundreds of potentially toxic nanomaterials already...

13 Jan 2009

Nanotoxicology News

Elsevier Announces Acquisition of the Publishing Assets of William Andrew

Unique Solution to Provide Fast and Efficient Impurity Analysis of Solid Metals

Developer of Disease-Destroying Nanotechnology Announces Relocation of HQ and Laboratory

Polymer Nanoparticle for Oral Anticancer Drug Delivery

Novel Synthetic Nanoparticle Developed for Noninvasive Imaging of Angiogenesis

Removing Lead from Blood Using Magnetic Nanoparticles

Japanese Police Selects Bruker's Mass Spectrometers for Exact Mass Analysis

Apogee Power Launches Nanotechnology Enhanced Lithium Cordless Power Tool Batteries

The Use of Nanotechnology in Environmental Remediation

Voluntary Approach Captures Only a Thin Slice of Nanomaterials in Use or Development in the U.S.

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

Breakthrough in Broadband Photodetectors: Nanomaterial Gii Could Bring Faster Broadband and Higher Quality Medical Imaging

Light-Responsive Azobenzene Polymers for Enhanced Neural Interfaces

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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