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Novel DNA Transfer Agents Find Potential Application in Nanomedicine

EUREKA project E! 3371 Gene Transfer Agents has made great advances in the development of novel non-viral carriers able to introduce genetic material into the target cells.

25 Jun 2010

Wyss Institute Team Creates Lung-on-a-Chip Device Using Microfabrication Strategy

Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston have created a device that mimics a living, breathing human lung on a microchip.

25 Jun 2010

Aphios Receives U.S. Patent to Formulate Polymer Nanospheres

Aphios Corporation today announced that it was awarded United States Patent No. 7,708,915 B2 for “Polymer Microspheres/Nanospheres and Encapsulating Therapeutic Proteins Therein,” granted May 04, 2010.

From Aphios Corporation 24 Jun 2010

A Step Closer to Developing Rapid Diagnostic Blood Test

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists have moved a step closer to developing the means for a rapid diagnostic blood test that can scan for thousands of disease markers and other chemical indicators of health.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 24 Jun 2010

Cresset Launches New Molecular Fields Visualizer

Cresset is delighted to announce the release of FieldView, its powerful new molecular Fields visualizer. FieldView is a molecular viewer/editor designed to create, modify, view and compare molecules along with their...

23 Jun 2010

New Programmable Nanodevice Made of DNA is Ideal for Medical Applications

By emulating nature's design principles, a team at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has created nanodevices made of D...

23 Jun 2010

FANAS: Conference Highlighting Friction and Adhesion Relationship at Nano-Scale

FANAS is a new series of conferences initiated as annual meetings of the ESF EUROCORES Programme FANAS, but is open to all scientists working on related topics.

23 Jun 2010

Waters Releases New ACQUITY UPLC H-Class Bio System

Waters Corporation today introduced the first-of-its-kind Waters® ACQUITY UPLC® H-Class Bio System, expanding the scientific and business benefits of UPLC® Technology for macromolecule analysis by optimizing characterization of biomolecule structures supporting their progression to viable biotherapeutics.

23 Jun 2010

Essen, Nycomed to Develop New Small Molecule Ion Channel Modulators

Essen BioScience Inc. - a specialty provider of cell-based assay solutions and contract research services – and Nycomed – a privately owned global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland - are pleased to announce a joint discovery agreement to identify novel small molecule ion channel modulators as pain therapeutics.

22 Jun 2010

Research on Brownian Motion of Molecules

Molecular motors, such as those responsible for tensing and relaxing your muscles, move in a strange manner: they propel themselves forwards despite - or thanks to - a continuous bombardment of the randomly moving molecu...

19 Jun 2010