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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Creates New Division to Expand Biotech Commercialization Services

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has created a new operating division to translate its academic and clinical research and discoveries into marketable products and services that will benefit patients. The new enterprise, Wake Forest Innovations, is being led by Chief Innovation Officer Eric Tomlinson, DSc, and Ph.D., who is also President of the Piedmont Triad Research Park.

13 Dec 2012

Nanoroughened Surfaces Capture Circulating Tumor Cells

A glass plate with a nanoscale roughness could be a simple way for scientists to capture and study the circulating tumor cells that carry cancer around the body through the bloodstream.

12 Dec 2012

FDA Clears Nanosphere’s C.difficile Test

Nanosphere, Inc., a leader in the development and commercialization of advanced molecular diagnostics systems, announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance permitting marketing of its C.difficile test on the automated sample-to-result Verigene® System.

11 Dec 2012

Engineered Nanomaterial Can Help Regulate Chloride Levels in Nerve Cells

A nanomaterial engineered by researchers at Duke can help regulate chloride levels in nerve cells that contribute to chronic pain, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.

11 Dec 2012

Journal Vaccine Reports Novavax' Phase I RSV Nanoparticle Vaccine Candidate Results

Novavax, Inc. today announced that the journal Vaccine has published the company's data from its 2011 Phase I clinical trial of its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion (F) recombinant nanoparticle vaccine candid...

7 Dec 2012

University of Kentucky Researcher Recognized for RNA Nanoparticles Study

University of Kentucky researcher Yi Shu was awarded the Best Poster Presentation at the National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer's Annual Principal Investigators' Meeting last month.

7 Dec 2012

Femtosecond Crystallography Reveals 3D Structure of Enzyme Linked to Sleeping Sickness

An international team of scientists, using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, has revealed the three dimensional structure of a key enzyme that enables the single-celled parasite that causes African trypanosomiasis (or sleeping sickness) in humans.

From Arizona State University 6 Dec 2012

Fungal Nanoparticles Activate Secretion of Immune-System Stimulant

Arthrobotrys oligospora doesn’t live a charmed life; it survives on a diet of roundworm.

6 Dec 2012

Novel Nanotechnology Holds Hope for Treatment of Pediatric Leukemia

Nanotechnology developed by Delaware scientists could potentially deliver chemotherapy to children in a way that attacks cancer cells without harming healthy cells, greatly reducing side effects.

5 Dec 2012

AOAC Certifies FoodChek’s MICT Nanotechnology Based Listeria spp. Testing

FoodChek Systems Inc. ("FoodChek" or the "Corporation") is very proud to announce that the AOAC Research Institute, the approval body for all U.S. food safety tests, has validated and certified as a Performance Tested Method ("PTM"), FoodChek's patent pending Actero™ Listeria Enrichment Media (License #111201) and the FoodChek™ Listeria spp. Assay Cassette (License #111202).

3 Dec 2012