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New Nanosensor to Identify Hijack of Plant Nutrients by Pathogens

Infestation by bacteria and other pathogens result in global crop losses of over $500 billion annually. A research team led by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology developed a novel trick for ide...

25 Nov 2010

Scientists Discover How Cells Stabilize Machinery While Splitting

Scientists have discovered an amazingly simple way that cells stabilize their machinery for forcing apart chromosomes.

25 Nov 2010

Grifols Announces Availability of Flebogamma Intravenous Immune Globulin in the US

Grifols today announced availability of its recently approved Flebogamma® 10% DIF intravenous immune globulin. Grifols is a global healthcare company specializing in bioscience medicines derived from human plasma....

25 Nov 2010

Research Team Demonstrates Novel Microscopy Technique to Identify Cancer Cells

The long, anxious wait for biopsy results could soon be over, thanks to a tissue-imaging technique developed at the University of Illinois.

25 Nov 2010

New Nanotechnology Method to Fry Cancer Cells

Magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH) is a promising new cancer treatment that essentially "fries" cells inside tumors.

24 Nov 2010

Tel Aviv University Researchers Explore Bio-Ferrography Technique to Treat Osteoarthritis

Tel Aviv -- Ferrography, a practice used by the American and Israeli air forces to monitor the condition of machinery, extracts tiny iron particles from lubricants such as oil and grease to analyze wear in machines. Determining whether a system requires preventative maintenance can be the key to preventing catastrophic failure.

24 Nov 2010

Highly Specific Electronic Sensor Array Detects Messenger RNA Below Femtomolar Concentrations

Electrical sensor arrays are useful tools for rapid and early diagnosis of cancer and other genetic diseases. Zhiqiang Gao and co-workers at the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have developed an arr...

24 Nov 2010

Purdue Professor Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Reduce Heart Disease in African-Americans

Reducing the incidence of heart disease in the high-risk African-American population in Indiana is the aim of a new $1.5 million grant at Purdue University.

22 Nov 2010

UAB Reseachers Develop Identification System to Individually Tag Embryos

Researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in collaboration with researchers from the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), have developed an identification system for oocytes and embryos in which each can be individually tagged using silicon barcodes. Researchers are now working to perfect the system and soon will test it with human oocytes and embryos.

20 Nov 2010

Researchers Image Stages in Calcification Process at Nano Scale

Atherosclerosis is characterized by hardening and thickening of artery walls, with serious health consequences. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have imaged the stages in the calcification proc...

20 Nov 2010

Bionanotechnology News

New Nanosensor to Identify Hijack of Plant Nutrients by Pathogens

Scientists Discover How Cells Stabilize Machinery While Splitting

Grifols Announces Availability of Flebogamma Intravenous Immune Globulin in the US

Research Team Demonstrates Novel Microscopy Technique to Identify Cancer Cells

New Nanotechnology Method to Fry Cancer Cells

Tel Aviv University Researchers Explore Bio-Ferrography Technique to Treat Osteoarthritis

Highly Specific Electronic Sensor Array Detects Messenger RNA Below Femtomolar Concentrations

Purdue Professor Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Reduce Heart Disease in African-Americans

UAB Reseachers Develop Identification System to Individually Tag Embryos

Researchers Image Stages in Calcification Process at Nano Scale

Revolutionary Nanofibers Made from Flour for Tissue Regeneration

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

A Novel Approach to Enhancing Lithium-Ion Battery Performance with Graphene

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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