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Tip-assisted Chemistry Enables Chemical Reactions at Femtoliter Scale

The Chemical Communications journal reviews the advances made towards the confinement of chemical reactions within small droplets. The focus of the article falls to the tip-assisted chemistry, a technique recently amended by the ICN2 Nanostructured Functional Materials Group.

16 Nov 2016

VIAFLO ASSIST Increases Consistency of Tissue Typing

INTEGRA announces that their VIAFLO ASSIST personal pipetting assistant has been optimized for use with Linkage Biosciences LinkSēq™ tissue typing products.

8 Nov 2016

Pipetting Tips - Straight as a Plate or as Uneven as a Mountain Range?

Quite often, generic pipette tips on a multichannel pipette resemble a mountain range rather than perfectly aligned tips.

From INTEGRA Biosciences 25 Oct 2016

Stretchy Optical Fibers for Implanting in the Body

Biocompatible fibers could use light to stimulate cells or sense signs of disease.

18 Oct 2016

Epigem Granted US Patent on Composite Electrode

Epigem, a high-tech British micro-engineering company, has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its composite electrode.

From Epigem Ltd. 14 Oct 2016

LaVision BioTec Reports on the Measurement of Mouse Brain Activity from a Single Snapshot – the Latest Work Published in Cell from Dr Nicolas Renier at the Rockefeller University in New York

Bielefeld, October 11, 2016: LaVison BioTec, developers of advanced microscopy solutions for the life sciences, report on the latest work of Nicolas Renier, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Marc Tessier-Lavigne at the Rockefeller University in New York where he applies light sheet microscopy to measure activity in a mouse brain from a single snapshot.

11 Oct 2016

First Demonstration of Brain-inspired Device to Power Artificial Systems

New research, led by the University of Southampton, has demonstrated that a nanoscale device, called a memristor, could be used to power artificial systems that can mimic the human brain.

11 Oct 2016

Scientists Discover Nanoparticle Capable of Killing Cancer Cells

Cornell dots or C dots are nanoparticles that are emerging as promising therapeutic tools to detect and treat cancer.

29 Sep 2016

New Bionanotechnology Device Could Detect DNA Amplification at Nanoscale

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a ubiquitous and simple technique used in molecular biology to amplify DNA segments into millions of copies. PCR is a significant method not only for basic research, but also in forensics, medical applications and diagnostics.

8 Sep 2016

Edible Ginger-Derived Nano-Lipid Can be Used to Treat Colon Cancer

According to a study conducted by researchers at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, Southwest University in China, and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Wenzhou Medical University, nano-lipids that are derived from a particular group of edible ginger can be used to effectively target and deliver chemotherapeutic drugs that are used for colon cancer treatment.

8 Sep 2016