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Versatile Automated System for Repackaging Bulk Reference Standards Accurately into Smaller Individual Vials

Using a Powdernium® Workstation, supplied by Symyx Technologies Europe SA, a finished goods group has established a versatile automated system for repackaging bulk reference standards accurately into smaller individual vials.

24 Oct 2008

The Potential Environmental Impacts of Nanomanufacturing and Nanomaterials

Environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the process used to manufacture them, according to research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Hatice...

23 Oct 2008

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals to Present Data Using SNALP RNAi Delivery Technology

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced today that studies conducted by Tekmira and Johnson + Johnson Pharmaceutical Research + Development, Division of Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V., have shown that novel small inte...

23 Oct 2008

First-Ever Glimpse of Nanoscale Catalysts in Action

The first-ever glimpse of nanoscale catalysts in action could lead to improved pollution control and fuel cell technologies. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory observed catalysts restructuring themselves in response to various gases swirling around them, like a chameleon changing its color to match its surroundings.

22 Oct 2008

Removing Contaminates in Flow Back and Produced Water from Wells using Nanotechnology

Planet Resource Recovery, Inc. is pleased to announce the successful pre-treatment of flow back water originating in the Barnett Shale of Central Texas. Building on successful testing beginning in early 2008 to remove ba...

22 Oct 2008

Nano-Fiber Gel Release Drugs on Target Without Toxic Residue

Two teams of scientists from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology (HST) at Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a new self-assembling hydrogel drug delivery system that is biocompatible, effic...

22 Oct 2008

EFSA Launches Public Consultation on Draft Opinion on Nanotechnology and Food and Feed Safety

EFSA is today launching a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion in relation to nanoscience and nanotechnologies and food and feed safety. Nanotechnologies involve the use of substances on a very small scale...

20 Oct 2008

Reducing Pollution from Nanoparticles by 25 Percent

A study undertaken by researchers from the University of Alcalá (UAH) shows that if the "super-polluters", the high-polluting vehicles, such as certain buses and lorries in a poor condition, were removed, pollution from nanoparticles could be reduced by up to 25% and 48%, depending on the parameter analysed. These minute particles cause serious health problems.

16 Oct 2008

Gold Nanorods Now Available for Non-Invasive Photothermal Cancer Therapy

A revolutionary new gold nanorod manufacturing method has been developed at Nanopartz where their patent pending gold nanorods are proving their ability to be the future in-vivo nanoparticle for the detection and treatme...

16 Oct 2008

Jellyfish Research Unearthed Possible Key for Halting Onset and Progression of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Decades of research into the chemistry behind the colorful luminescent glow of jellyfish have resulted in several major advances in the field of biotechnology and recently earned three research scientists a 2008 Nobel Pr...

15 Oct 2008