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New Bionanotechnological Device for Use in Genetic Diagnostics

The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Artificial Intelligence Group (LIA), based at the Facultad de Informática, has created a new DNA-based biological sensor that has potential applications in the field of genetic diagnostics.

20 Oct 2010

PSI Signs Licensing and Technology Development Agreement with SoluBest

Particle Sciences Inc. (PSI), a leading pharmaceutical CRO and SoluBest have entered into a licensing and technology development agreement. Under the agreement, Particle Sciences will be the exclusive contract researc...

20 Oct 2010

Researchers Study How Specialized Protein Reacts to External Stimuli

Some bacteria react to the cold by subtly changing the chemistry of their outer wall so that it remains pliable as temperatures drop.

20 Oct 2010

Use of Gold Nanoparticles to Create Self-Assembling Crystals

Photonic crystals are exotic materials with the ability to guide light beams through confined spaces and could be vital components of low-power computer chips that use light instead of electricity.

19 Oct 2010

Nanotope Teams Up with Smith + Nephew to Develop Cartilage Regeneration Product

Arrowhead Research Corporation today announced that its portfolio company, Nanotope, Inc., has entered into an agreement with Smith & Nephew, Inc., a member of the Smith & Nephew plc group to develop a cartilage regeneration product for human healthcare markets using a subset of its proprietary regenerative medicine technology.

From Arrowhead Pharmaceutical 19 Oct 2010

Micronics Secures Funds to Advance PanNAT System

Micronics, Inc., a development-stage company, today announced that the Department of Defense has awarded the company an Applied Research and Technology Development Award under the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command’s Polytrauma and Blast Injury project for advancement of its PanNAT system for point-of-care molecular diagnosis of infectious pathogens.

From Sony Group Corporation 19 Oct 2010

New Curbing Method Prevents Formation of Kidney Stones

Researchers have developed a method for curbing the growth of crystals that form cystine kidney stones. Their findings, which appear in the latest issue of the journal Science, may offer a pathway to a new method for the prevention of kidney stones.

19 Oct 2010

NYU Receives Grant from NSF to Upgrade Structural DNA Nanotechnology Facility

New York University has received a $1.6 million National Science Foundation grant to upgrade its Structural DNA Nanotechnology facility. Structural DNA nanotechnology uses synthetic DNA molecules to create new materials a billionth of a meter in size.

18 Oct 2010

NYU Receives NSF Grant to Upgrade Structural DNA Nanotechnology Facility

New York University has received a $1.6 million National Science Foundation grant to upgrade its Structural DNA Nanotechnology facility.

18 Oct 2010

Shrink Nanotechnologies Reveals Image of First Biomedical Research Tool

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink") (OTC Bulletin Board: INKN), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the alternative energy industry, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, revealed an image of its first product offering – the StemDisc450™, a high-yield, low cost, patent-pending cell culturing biomedical research tool. Shrink expects to begin offering this product for sale in the latter part of 2010.

18 Oct 2010