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Gold Nanorods Effectively Deliver Immune Activator Molecule into Cells

Future pandemics of seasonal flu, H1N1 and other drug-resistant viruses may be thwarted by a potent, immune-boosting payload that is effectively delivered to cells by gold nanorods, report scientists at the University at...

25 May 2010

ASU Scientists to Use NanoSIMS Imaging System for Research Projects

The National Science Foundation’s Major Research and Instrumentation (MRI) Program recently funded a $3.7 million NanoSIMS imaging mass spectrometer for 13 ASU scientists and a large number of collaborators working...

24 May 2010

Shrink Nanotechnologies Files Patent Applications for StemDisc Tool

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors, and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that patent applications for its stem cell research and drug discovery tool StemDisc™ have been filed.

24 May 2010

Scientists Use Organic Electronics to Regulate Nerve Cells

A major step toward being able to regulate nerve cells externally with the help of electronics has been taken by researchers at Linköping University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

24 May 2010

Biophysicists Explain Basic Functions of Motor Protein Molecule

Every single one of our cells contains so-called motor proteins that transport important substances from one location to another. However, very little is known about how exactly these transport processes occur. Biophy...

24 May 2010

Trials Show That Deep-Water Organogenic-Mineral Sediments Suitable for Creating Nanobiopreparations

Nanotechnologies in agriculture are mostly associated with the reproduction of agricultural species and the processing and improvement of the quality of production. Nanotechnologies are already being used for disinfec...

24 May 2010

Nanobiopreparations Help in Plants’ Life Processes

As a result of the joint investigation, several complex biopreparations were obtained, containing the growth regulator BIOLAN and etheric oils and plant extracts manifesting their action in extremely low (nano-) concentr...

24 May 2010

Bruker Introduces New MALDI Molecular Imaging System

At the 58th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Bruker today announces a novel MALDI molecular imaging system based on the extreme performance of the solariX FTMS.

24 May 2010

New Method of Characterizing Tumor Biopsies using Quantum Dots

One important discovery made about cancer over the past decade is that as a tumor develops, the molecular identity of its cells begins to diverge. As a result, any given tumor is likely to contain groups of cells with di...

21 May 2010

Successful Completion of First Synthetic Bacterial Cell Construction

Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell....

21 May 2010