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Scientist Awarded $1.5 Million to Develop Dramatically Improved Biomarker Research and Clinical Diagnostic Tools

An analytical chemist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. The award will support Wei-Jun Qian's drive to make new research and clinical diagnostic tools that are dramatically more sensitive, reliable and faster than current technologies.

24 Sep 2009

RainDance Technologies Expands Sequence Enrichment Solution Capabilities

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for health and human disease research, announced today it has expanded the capabilities of its Sequence Enrichment Solution to e...

From Bio-Rad Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 23 Sep 2009

Magnetically Responsive Gold Nanostars Offer New Approach to Biomedical Imaging

Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging. The nanostars gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and can scatter lig...

23 Sep 2009

Scientists Develop Way to Target Brain Cancer Cells using Nanotechnology

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorgani...

23 Sep 2009

Golden Nanotubes Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Nodes

Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated carbon na...

23 Sep 2009

MSGI Security Solutions Launches First Product derived from NASA Technology

MSGI Security Solutions Inc. (OTCBB: MSGI) today reported that the Company is launching its first product derived from NASA technology, a handheld test for Diabetes, which uses breath instead of blood. Nanobeak Inc.,...

23 Sep 2009

Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Nanotechnology

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Nanotechnol...

From Research and Markets 23 Sep 2009

Researchers Develop Unique Nanomaterial that Kills Antibiotic-Resitant Bacteria

Doctors are not well armed in the fight against antibiotic-resitant bacteria. It is very difficult - or, in the worst case, impossible - to fight such infections. A team of researchers in Münster has now developed a...

23 Sep 2009

Nanotechnology Company Completes Patient Recruitment for Glioblastoma Study

MagForce Nanotechnologies AG (FWB:MF6) has successfully completed patient recruitment for its study on recurrent glioblastoma, which is of critical importance for demonstrating the efficacy of its proprietary Nano-Cancer® therapy.

From MagForce Nanotechnologies AG 22 Sep 2009

Disease Diagnosis, Toxin Detection and More are Possible with DNA-Graphene Nanostructure

Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between graphene and DNA, the buil...

22 Sep 2009