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Fluidigm Introduces New Protocol for Access Array System

Fluidigm Corporation has announced the release of a new protocol for the Access Array™ System that enables sequencing of amplicon libraries using GS FLX Titanium Series reagents on the 454 GS FLX sequencing system.

From Standard BioTools 13 May 2010

Scientists Develop Molecular Nanorobot That Mimicks a Spider

A team of scientists from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made out of DNA to start, move, turn, and stop while following a DNA track.

13 May 2010

New DNA Assembly Line to Create Nanomaterials Efficiently

Chemists at New York University and China's Nanjing University have created a DNA assembly line that has the potential to create novel materials efficiently on the nanoscale. Their work is reported in the latest issu...

13 May 2010

Nature and Technology - How Evolution Meets Computation

Nature and technology may seem worlds apart, but New York University Computer Scientist Dennis Shasha maintains that the natural world can bolster the capacity of today's most sophisticated machines. In Natural Compu...

12 May 2010

Stem Cells Stimulate Regeneration of Vascular Tissue to Allow for Optimised Integration of Textile Implants

The capacity of a textile implant to be tolerated by the body - known as biotolerance - plays an important role in regenerative medicine. Nevertheless, the body does not always tolerate textile implants.

12 May 2010

Mixing of Customized DNA Snippets Can Create Tiny, Waffle-Looking Nanostructures

In a single day, a solitary grad student at a lab bench can produce more simple logic circuits than the world's entire output of silicon chips in a month.

12 May 2010

Nanotechnology Tools Help to Study Breakdown of Myelin Inside Brain and Spinal Cord

A National Institutes of Health grant will help University of Central Florida researchers explore new ways to potentially reverse the damage caused by multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders. Ste...

12 May 2010

Project Designed to Increase Effectiveness of PDT using Nanotechnology

CEA-Leti today announced the launch of the TARGET-PDT project designed to increase the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating cancer by developing a novel nano carrier-based approach. PDT is a minima...

11 May 2010

Nanotechnology Institute Registered Two Patents with USPTO

As King Abdullah inaugurates a package of development projects worth SR14.039 billion (approx. $3.7 billion) at King Saud University (KSU) today, King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology, affiliated with KSU, announced...

10 May 2010

Researchers Capture Image of Nano-Scale Movement of Atoms During Photosynthesis

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have managed, with the help of an advanced X-ray flash, to photograph the movement of atoms during photosynthesis – an achievement that has been recognised by the journal Science.

10 May 2010