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Partnership Results in Promising New Tool for Fighting Infections

Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it&#39...

10 Jun 2009

Sniffing Out Chronic Renal Failure in its Earliest and Most Treatable Stages

Scientists in Israel have identified the key substances in exhaled breath associated with healthy and diseased kidneys -raising expectations, they say, for development of long-sought diagnostic and screening tests that literally sniff out chronic renal failure (CRF) in its earliest and most treatable stages.

10 Jun 2009

SAFENANO Co-Hosts Pre-Conference Workshop on Nanotechnology Risk Management at NanoMaterials '09

SAFENANO, the UK's premier resource on Nanotechnology Health + Safety, is co-hosting a Pre-Conference workshop on Nanotechnology Risk Management at the forthcoming NanoMaterials '09 conference in Bonn, Germany. L...

10 Jun 2009

JPK Announces Installation of NanoTracker Optical Tweezers System at Leiden University

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce the installation of its unique NanoTracker™ optical tweezers system in the laboratory of Dr. Remus Dame at Leiden University.

From Bruker BioAFM 10 Jun 2009

Completely New Material Having Significance in Carbon-Carbon Composite Field and Other Applications

JenLaur Ltd., LLC is announcing the discovery of a template for creation of amino acids, nucleosides, and RNA through a proprietary patent pending method of metallofullerene production.

10 Jun 2009

Making Nanoparticle Films Strong Enough so They Don't Disintegrate at the Slightest Touch

Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don't disintegrate at the slightest touch.

9 Jun 2009

Fine Tuning Nanoparticles for Biotargeting Applications

Researchers from Abo Akademi University and the University of Turku in Finland have discovered that the stability of functionalised nanoparticles is crucially dependent on all functional groups present on the surface.

From Malvern Panalytical 9 Jun 2009

Provider of DNA-Based Security Solutions Validates Use of Proprietary SigNature DNA into Laminates

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (OTCBB: APDN), announced today that in collaboration with a world leader in security laminated materials, it has validated its proprietary SigNature® DNA into laminates typically used in travel documents, credit cards, drivers licenses and other government issued identification cards.

9 Jun 2009

Six Scientists from University of Queensland Receives Smart Future Fellowships

Six scientists from The University of Queensland, one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions, have received Smart Future Fellowships to help further their research into areas such as disease detect...

9 Jun 2009

Veeco Co-Sponsor MBE Innovator Award in Conjunction with NAMBE Organization

Veeco Instruments Inc., will again co-sponsor the MBE Innovator Award in 2009 in conjunction with the North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE) organization.

From Veeco 9 Jun 2009