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Saladax Biomedical Signs Agreement with Karolinska University Hospital to Supply Nanoparticle-Based Immunoassay

Saladax Biomedical, Inc. has signed an agreement with Karolinska University Hospital to supply the novel 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) Personalized Chemotherapy Management (PCM™) reagent kits. The test provides oncologists...

6 Aug 2008

Scientists from Europe and Canada are Studying Tiny Gold Nanoparticles

Scientists from Germany, Canada and the Netherlands have studied tiny gold nanoparticles, so-called clusters, and found them to have fascinating arrangements of their constituent atoms.

5 Aug 2008

Scientists Developed Process for Cleaning a Transmission Electron Microscope

A process for cleaning a transmission electron microscope without disassembling has been developed. Contaminants in the electron microscope are removed, and 100% performance is demonstrated. The accuracy and reliability of analyzing organic and polymeric materials at the nanometer level are improved.

5 Aug 2008

Study Answers Key Questions About Role of Particle Shape and Size in Nanomedicine

A team of researchers led by Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, and Stephanie Gratton, a graduate student in DeSimone's lab, have demonstrated that nanoparticles designed with a specific shape, size and surface chemistry are taken up into cells and behave differently within cells depending on these attributes.

5 Aug 2008

Eliminating Metal Nanoparticles Result in a More Corrosion-Resistant Alloy

Oxide scales are supposed to protect alloys from extensive corrosion, but scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered metal nanoparticle chinks in this armor. Oxide scales...

5 Aug 2008

UC Santa Barbara Professors to Lead Open Forum on Green Nanotechnology

UC Santa Barbara's Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) invite the community to attend a casual public forum called "Nano-Meeter" to discuss the use and...

5 Aug 2008

World's First All-Integrated Sensor Circuit Based on Nanowire Arrays

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays, combining light sensors and electronics made of different crystalline materials. Their method can be used to reproduce numerous such devices with high uniformity.

5 Aug 2008

Patent Represents Cornerstone of Midatech's Nanotechnology IP Portfolio and Position

Midatech Group, a world leader in the production and application of synthetically produced nanoparticles, has received a US grant on its proprietary patent application (US09,622253), protecting the Company’s novel ...

5 Aug 2008

Testing Device Generates Great Interest in Nanofiber Industry

The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign has developed a novel testing device for understanding the tensile properties of single nanofibers. In addition to the ability to test a single nanofiber, the technology allows...

5 Aug 2008

Hitachi Opens New Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility

Hitachi has opened a new Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility in the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge University. The long standing research collaboration between Hitachi and the Cambridge University has been enhanced with the installation of three state of the art scanning electron microscopes.

2 Aug 2008