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AeonClad Coatings Announces Launch of Newly Formed Subsidiary

Specialty coatings company, AeonClad Coatings LLC, has announced the launch of a newly formed subsidiary, AeonClad Biomedical LLC. The new company will focus on biomedical applications utilizing the AeonCoat™ Technology.

19 Jan 2009

Developer of Disease-Destroying Nanotechnology Announces Relocation of HQ and Laboratory

PDS Biotechnology Corporation, a developer of disease-destroying nanotechnology, announced today it will relocate its Cincinnati headquarters and laboratory here with the help of a $2 million grant from the state's 2...

19 Jan 2009

Research and Markets Announces Availability of Advances in Lithium Battery Technologies Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "4th Annual Lithium Mobile Power 2008 - Advances in Lithium Battery Technologies for Mobile Applications Conference Documentation" report to its offerings....

From Research and Markets 17 Jan 2009

Polymer Nanoparticle for Oral Anticancer Drug Delivery

One of the problems that cancer patients face is that many of the most potent anticancer therapies can be administered only by injection, which means that cancer patients must travel to receive their medication. But than...

16 Jan 2009

Biodegradable Nanoprobe Images New Blood Vessel Growth

Angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, plays a critical role in several chronic human diseases, including metastatic cancer. In fact, several new anticancer therapies are designed to starve tumors by shutting down angiogenesis, but the lack of a good assay for quantifying angiogenesis in the body has hampered the development of effective antiangiogenesis therapies.

16 Jan 2009

Researchers Develop Microfluidic Devices that Capture and Analyze Cancer Cells

One of the grand goals in nanotechnology is to develop a single microfluidic device that integrates all of the components needed to perform polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based nucleic acid analyses. Experts predict tha...

16 Jan 2009

Toxin-Nanoparticle Combo Inhibits Brain Cancer Invasion

Working with a nanoparticle designed to target and image glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, investigators at the University of Washington in Seattle have found that these same nanoparticles inhibit tumor cell invasion...

16 Jan 2009

Researchers Use Modified Anti-EGFR Antibody to Delivery Nanoparticles into Tumor Cells

Antibodies that target epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) have proven themselves as potent anticancer drugs. Now, a team of investigators led by Shuming Nie, Ph.D., and Lily Yang, Ph.D., both at the Emory University...

16 Jan 2009

Patent Enable Companies and Researchers to Develop and Manufacture Smaller-Sized Nanoparticles

Microfluidics has filed for a patent on its Microfluidics Reaction Technology (MRT), which will enable companies and research organizations to develop and manufacture smaller-sized nanoparticles than previously possible ...

15 Jan 2009

Handheld Device Recognizes Wide Variety of Environmental or Medical Compounds

A handheld, ultra-portable device that can recognize and immediately report on a wide variety of environmental or medical compounds may eventually be possible, using a method that incorporates a mixture of biologically tagged nanowires onto integrated circuit chips, according to Penn State researchers.

15 Jan 2009