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Expanded Testing under a Material Transfer Agreement with a Pharma Company

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therap, reported today that testing of its topical eye drops drug candidate has begun at two different, independent facilities.

From NanoViricides, Inc 15 Jun 2009

Yissum Signs Agreement with Aurum Ventures MKI

Yissum Research Development Company Ltd., founded in 1964 to protect and commercialize the Hebrew University's intellectual property, announced today at the ILSI-Biomed Israel 2009 conference, it has signed an agreem...

15 Jun 2009

Nanopoint Announces Availability of CellTRAY Imaging System and Fluidics System to European Marketplace

Nanopoint Inc., a privately-held life sciences company that is advancing the study + treatment of diseases with its extended time-lapse live cell imaging solutions, today announced that effective immediately its cellTRAY...

15 Jun 2009

A*STAR Scientists Scored Breakthrough in Nanotechnology

Scientists from A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), led by Professor Christian Joachim, have scored a breakthrough in nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecul...

15 Jun 2009

Mirna Therapeutics Presents Preclinical Data for One of its Lead microRNA Therapeutic Candidates at Symposium

Mirna Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of microRNA (miRNA) therapeutics, presented preclinical data for one of its lead microRNA therapeutic candidates at the Keyston...

15 Jun 2009

Binding Nanoparticles Together With Useful Materials Properties

Researchers at New York University have created a method to precisely bind nano- and micrometer-sized particles together into larger-scale structures with useful materials properties. Their work, which appears in the lat...

14 Jun 2009

Nanotechnology Research Bringing Relief to Oral Thrush Sufferers

A research project undertaken at Liverpool University, which has the potential to bring relief to the estimated 3.5 million UK sufferers of oral thrush, has won the £25,000 Armourers + Brasiers Venture Prize. This will allow the project to proceed to clinical evaluation.

14 Jun 2009

Tiny Fragment of RNA Suppresses Spread of Breast Cancer

High levels of a tiny fragment of RNA appear to suppress the spread of breast cancer in mice, according to researchers at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

13 Jun 2009

Talks Highlight Nanotechnology Trends in Biotechnology and Medicine

Third annual symposium "Nanoscience for Nanoscience and Neurosurgery" is being organized by Johns Hopkins. Below is the first part of a two-part series summarizing the talks presented at the 3rd Annual NanoBio ...

12 Jun 2009

New Chemical System Could Answer Questions About How Life Could Emerge

A team of Scripps Research scientists has created a new analog to DNA that assembles and disassembles itself without the need for enzymes. Because the new system comprises components that might reasonably be expected in a primordial world, the new chemical system could answer questions about how life could emerge.

12 Jun 2009