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UF Researchers Design and Test Tiny Microchip Integrated Pill System

Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule.

1 Apr 2010

Los Alamos Toxicologists Study Cellular Damage from Fullerenes

A Los Alamos National Laboratory toxicologist and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from "fullerenes"—soccer-ball-shaped, cage-like molecules composed of 60...

1 Apr 2010

Nanogea Presents Results of its Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Study

Nanogea, a nano-biotechnology company focused on commercializing the industry's most sensitive single molecular detection platform, is pleased to announce results regarding its Prostate Cancer diagnostic study.

31 Mar 2010

BioNanomatrix Becomes Exclusive Licensee of Nanochannel Arrays Patent

BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough single-molecule genomic analysis technology, today announced the issuance of U.S. patent 7,670,770 for nanochannel arrays that enable high-throughput macromolecular analysis.

31 Mar 2010

Novel Electronic Sensor for Accurate and Cost-Efficient Testing of DNA for Disease Diagnosis

A novel electronic sensor array for the rapid, accurate and cost-efficient testing of DNA for disease diagnosis has been designed by A*STAR researchers. “Our nanogap sensor array can unambiguously detect the con...

31 Mar 2010

USPTO Issues Patent Allowance for Cell Specific siRNAs Delivery Methods

MDRNA, Inc., a leading RNAi-based drug discovery and development company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Allowance for patent application U.S. 12/701,397 covering methods for the delivery of siRNAs as well as a broad array of compounds with pharmacological activity.

30 Mar 2010

John Wiley Releases Report on Delivery Technologies for Biopharmaceuticals

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/80e30e/delivery_technolog) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Delivery Technologies for Biopharmaceuticals: Peptides, Prot...

30 Mar 2010

Virginia Tech Professor Awarded for Cancer Therapy Research Using Nanotechnology

Preliminary research on cancer treatments using nanotechnology and laser therapy has led to a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for Marissa Nichole Rylander, Virginia Tech assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (SBES).

30 Mar 2010

P3SENS Consortium to Develop New Biosensor

A 3.6M€ project cofunded by the 7th EU Framework Program is developing Photonic Crystal technology for multi-target biodetection of Cerebrovascular Disease Expertise spanning Photonic Crystals to Proteomics is al...

29 Mar 2010

New Approach to Control Liquid Spreading in Lab-on-a-Chip Technology

Controlling the way liquids spread across a surface is important for a wide variety of technologies, including DNA microarrays for medical research, inkjet printers and digital lab-on-a-chip systems.

29 Mar 2010