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UT Dallas Announces New Minor in Nanotechnology

UT Dallas is introducing a new minor in nanoscience and technology, enabling undergraduates to augment their core studies with a grounding in what's also known as molecular engineering.

5 Mar 2009

Packing Nutraceuticals into Food via Microgels

Nutritionists are nearly unanimous in recommending that Americans should eat significantly more omega-3 fatty acids and consume them in foods, not in vitamin pills. The health-promoting fats are found in fish and some ot...

4 Mar 2009

Research into RNA Could Lead to Remarkable Advances in Treatment of Diseases

Research into RNA, a molecule found in every cell of our bodies, could lead to remarkable advances in the treatment of diseases such as cancer and diabetes, a meeting organised by the European Science Foundation was told...

4 Mar 2009

Sugar-Coated "Quantum Dots" for Drug Delivery

Scientists in Switzerland are reporting an advance that could help tap the much-heralded potential of "quantum dots" - nanocrystals that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light - in the treatment of cancer and other diseases.

4 Mar 2009

Nanomedicine Scientist Gets $7 Million for Breast Cancer Research

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., a nanomedicine scientist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, has received a five-year, $7 million Innovator Award fr...

4 Mar 2009

Sigma-Aldrich Announces Global Release of MISSION LentiPlex Pooled Human and Murine shRNA Libraries

Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced the global release of the MISSION(R) LentiPlex(TM) Pooled Human and Murine shRNA Libraries. Using the shRNA collections of The RNAi Consortium (TRC), the MISSION LentiPlex Pooled shRNA Libraries enable rapid, genome-wide RNAi screening at the bench-top level in a convenient and powerful, pooled lentiviral format.

From Sigma Aldrich 3 Mar 2009