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Nanotechnology Being Used to Develop Low-Cost Disposable Blood-Testing Kit

Nanotechnology is being used by academics at the University of Southampton to develop low-cost, disposable blood-testing kits that can be made available in GPs' surgeries. Professor Peter Ashburn, Head of the Nano...

8 Apr 2009

Nano-Camo for Fashionistas and Environmentalists

Certain fish species blend with their environment by changing color. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have demonstrated that, in theory, they could cause synthetic materials to change color like fish do.

8 Apr 2009

First-Ever Nanoscale Fluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer (billionth of a meter) level to engineer the first-ever nanoscale fluidic device with complex three-dimensional surfaces.

7 Apr 2009

Chamber Separates Nanoparticles Like a 'Coin Sorter'

Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer (billionth of a meter) level and used it to develop a method for engineering the first-ever nanoscale fluidic (nanofluidic) device with complex three-dimensional surfaces.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 31 Mar 2009

Fluidigm Developing Quantification System Allowing Sequencing of Rare Samples

Fluidigm Corporation today announced a sample quantification system that allows researchers to sequence their libraries of rare samples and also dramatically lower costs, improve data quality and speed up time-to-results for scientists performing next-generation DNA sequencing.

From Standard BioTools 30 Mar 2009

Working at Nanoscale Level, Researchers Create Stable Superhydrophilic Surfaces on a Glass Substrate

Working at the nanoscale level, University of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic surfaces on a glass substrate. The surfaces, made of randomly placed and densely distributed micron-size...

26 Mar 2009

Conducting Polymer Nanowires that can Detect Wide Range of Cancer Biomarker

Investigators at the University of California, Riverside, have developed a simple and cost-effective method of building conducting polymer nanowires that can detect a wide range of levels of a cancer biomarker. This work...

26 Mar 2009

Micromagnetic-Microfluidic Device Could Quickly Pull Pathogens from Bloodstream

Sepsis, an infection of the blood, can quickly overwhelm the body's defenses and is responsible for more than 200,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. Premature newborns and people with weakened immune systems are ...

25 Mar 2009

Veeco Instruments Announces Winners of Labs Research Grant Program

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of scanning probe microscopes (SPM) to the nanoscience community, today announced the winners of the first phase of the Veeco Labs Research Grant Program.

From Veeco 25 Mar 2009

New Surface Treatment Boosts Efficiency for Photovoltaic Cells

Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells in two complementary ways.

24 Mar 2009