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Cellulose Nanofibrillated Fiber Based Transistors Better Than Conventional Silicon-Based Transistors

Portable electronics users tend to upgrade their devices frequently as new technologies offering more functionality and more convenience become available.

1 Jul 2015

New Lab-on-a-Chip System for Counting DNA Molecules

A team of scientists including PhD student Friedrich Schuler from the Laboratory of MEMS Applications at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg has developed a method for dividing a DNA sample into thousands of tiny droplets.

26 Jun 2015

Earth's Daily Rotation Period Encoded in 10nm-Diameter KaiC Protein

A collaborative group of Japanese researchers has demonstrated that the Earth's daily rotation period (24 hours) is encoded in the KaiC protein at the atomic level, a small, 10 nm-diameter biomolecule expressed in cyanobacterial cells.

26 Jun 2015

Polymer Nanobrushes Grab Selected Bacteria for Pathogen Detection

A Texas A&M AgriLife Research engineer and a Florida colleague have developed a biosensor that can detect listeria bacterial contamination within two or three minutes.

22 Jun 2015

Fluidigm Announces Availability of Single-Cell ATAC-seq for C1 System

Fluidigm Corporation today announced the availability of Single-Cell ATAC-seq, an epigenetics application for the C1TM system, that allows researchers to explore the regulatory systems that drive cellular function. This application is freely available to researchers on Script Hub™, a new web portal within Fluidigm’s C1 Open AppTM program.

From Standard BioTools 19 Jun 2015

Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research Finalizes Funding Agreement with TransGenex Nanobiotech

The Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research (the Institute) announced today that it has finalized a funding agreement with TransGenex Nanobiotech, Inc. (TGN), a company that is developing nano-scale technologies for novel, cost-effective diagnostic and therapeutic agents against cancers and other inflammatory diseases.

19 Jun 2015

Important Advancement In the Treatment and Prevention of Bacterial Infection

A new material which could increase protection against antibacterial and antifungal infection for weeks, months or years has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol.

18 Jun 2015

Biodegradeable Nanofiber 'Patch' Seeded with hiPSC-CMs to Create Secure Environment for Stem Cells to Engraft

Stem cell-based therapies have the potential to transform the treatment of almost every major health condition, but possibly none quite as prevalent as heart disease. As the world’s number one cause of death, heart disease kills more than 7.5 million people each year, and its irreversible course leaves millions more dependent on devices and medications to survive.

18 Jun 2015

JPK Reports the Exploration of Living Cells Using Nanoscale and Single Molecule SPM Techniques at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their NanoWizard® 3 AFM system at the Université catholique de Louvain where it is used by the nanobio team to look at the nanoscopy of living cells.

From Bruker BioAFM 16 Jun 2015

Scientists Successfully Characterize Molecular Structure of Small Heat Shock Protein

Small heat shock proteins ensure that other proteins do not clot, allowing the cell to survive stress. Defects in these "small helpers" are associated with medical conditions like cataracts and cancer. Now, scientists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have characterized a small heat shock protein responsible for embryonic development in the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode. Presumably, a similar protein exists also in humans.

12 Jun 2015