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Percepta Offers Report on Flow Cytometry Market

A consultancy providing market and research services to life science, Percepta Associates has launched a new market research report titled “2011 Flow Cytometry Series 1 Life Science Dashboard.”

12 Aug 2011

Intel and Micron Technology Receive Award for 20 nm Flash Memory Process Technology

Micron Technology and Intel have received the most innovative flash memory technology award at the 2011 Flash Memory Summit for their 20 nm 8 GB NAND flash memory process technology.

From Micron Technology, Inc. 12 Aug 2011

New Technical Note Demonstrates The Ability of the W130i DLS to Measure Sub-Nanometre Particles

Avid Nano have issued a new technical note demonstrating the excellent performance of its W130i Dynamic Light Scattering System for detecting and precisely measuring sub-nanometre particles and molecules.

11 Aug 2011

Researchers Reveal Bilayer Graphene’s Unique Electronic Properties

Kostya Novoselov and Andre Geim, the University of Manchester Nobel Prize awardees, who discovered graphene in 2004, have reported in detail about bilayer graphene’s electronic properties in the Science journal.

11 Aug 2011

Researchers Study Nanocrystalline Structures in Soft Crystals

The scientists from the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology have identified complicated structures created by minute particles suspended in liquids.

11 Aug 2011

Oxford Instruments Launch EBSD Detector Designed for Nanoscale Applications

Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis, a world leader in microanalysis systems, has launched a new EBSD detector at M&M 2011. The new NordlysNano addresses the growing requirements of nanoscale applications: it is 60% more sensitive than the previous generation of EBSD detector, the NordlysS.

From Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis 8 Aug 2011

Berlin Researchers Observe Electron Cloud Measuring Few Nanometers

Berlin researchers have demonstrated that semiconductor electrons are portrayed as a cloud measuring few nanometers in size when viewed using a novel type of spectroscopy. The size of the cloud is decided depending on the electron interaction with crystal lattice vibrations.

6 Aug 2011

Researchers Evaluate NanoString’s Breast Cancer Intrinsic Subtyping Assay

A developer of molecular diagnostics and provider of life science tools for translational research, NanoString Technologies, has announced the initiation of the first study which will be followed by further studies to assess the clinical application of its breast cancer intrinsic subtyping assay which is solely based on the PAM50 gene signature.

6 Aug 2011

Wayne State University Researcher to Develop Long-term Implantable Electrode Using Graphene

The National Science Foundation has granted a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant worth $475,000 over a period of five years to Wayne State University’s Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng to develop a long-term, ultra-performance implantable electrode system using graphene.

5 Aug 2011

NIST Researchers Discover Method to Purify Armchair Carbon Nanotubes Using DNA

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers described in their new paper the method of purifying the “armchair” type of carbon nanotubes using individual DNA strands.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 5 Aug 2011