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Scientist-Entrepreneurs Honored at Inventors Reception

An antibody with the potential to stop breast cancer in its path. A nanoparticle that can address a side effect of the treatment that hemophiliacs cannot live without. A "quantum dot" with the potential to trea...

6 Mar 2009

TechConnect World Announces Keynote Speakers and Other Industry Thought-Leaders Presenting at Nanotech '09

TechConnect World, in association with the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI), and the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI), today announced the Keynote speakers and other industry th...

5 Mar 2009

New Way to Assemble Cells into Three-Dimensional Microtissues

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory can now control how cells connect with one another in vitro and assemble themselves into three-dimensional, multicellular microtissues.

5 Mar 2009

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

Fluidigm Announces Instrument and Integrated Fluidic Circuit Sales Reached Record Levels in 2008

Fluidigm announced that its instrument and integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) sales reached record levels in 2008. Volumes of both BioMark™ instruments and Fluidigm chips more than doubled when compared to 2007. ...

From Standard BioTools 3 Mar 2009