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Expanded NY Business Plan Competition Drawing Strong Interest as Application Deadline Nears: Title Sponsors SEFCU and SUNY support competition in which students compete for $500,000 in prizes; semifinal contests to be held in 10 regions, with final compet

Nanotech-Now - March 7, 2013 - 7:45am
Supporting Governor Andrew Cuomo's leadership in expanding educational opportunities that enhance New York's innovation-enabled economy, the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), t...
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Stressed proteins can cause blood clots for hours: Physicists probe stress-induced changes in clot-forming protein

Nanotech-Now - March 7, 2013 - 7:45am
New research from Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the Puget Sound Blood Center (PSBC) has revealed how stresses of flow in the small blood vessels of the heart and brain could ca...
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Rolith and SUSS MicroTec Announce Installation of 2nd Generation Nanolithography Tool

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Rolith, Inc., the leader in developing advanced nanostructured coatings and devices, today announces the successful installation of a 2nd-generation nanostructuring prototype tool built by SUSS MicroT...
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VDMA Photonics Forum appears in a completely new light: On the new VDMA website, the Photonics Forum provides information about the key technology of photonics and bundles the competence of seven photonics-related VDMA organisations

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
The Photonics Forum within the German Engineering Federation (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau - VDMA) - the theme-based affiliation of seven VDMA photonics-related professional sectors - a...
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HGST Reaches 10-Nanometer Patterned-Bit Milestone: Nanotechnology Process Will Double Today’s Disk Drive Data Density

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC) is leading the disk drive industry to the forefront in nanolithography, long the exclusive purview of...
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Nanobotmodels Company offer vision of cancer treatment using medical nanoparticles: This short animation shows how drug delivery methods working inside a human body

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Cancer, is a broad group of various diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The...
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Dendrimers improve anticancer efficacy in lung metastasis model

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Starpharma Holdings Ltd (ASX:SPL;OTCQX: SPHRY) today announced the results of an animal study which shows that a dendrimer-based formulation of doxorubicin was substantially more efficacious in treati...
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Getting around the Uncertainty Principle: Physicists make first direct measurements of polarization states of light

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa have applied a recently developed technique to directly measure for the first time the polarization states of light. Their work...
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Man-made material pushes the bounds of superconductivity

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
A multi-university team of researchers has artificially engineered a unique multilayer material that could lead to breakthroughs in both superconductivity research and in real-world applications.
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New Nano-Based Method Found for Early Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Immunosensors based on the nanocomposite of carbon nanotubes and ionic liquids were produced by the Iranian researchers fat Kurdistan University in order to diagnose prostate cancer. The immunosensor...
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Gold Nanoparticles Help Determine Captopril Enzyme to Treat Different Diseases

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Iranian researchers at Sharif University of Technology developed a new way to determine captopril enzyme quantitatively by using fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET) method.
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Robert Bosch GmbH places order for SolMateS' Pulsed Laser Deposition system

Nanotech-Now - March 5, 2013 - 7:45am
SolMateS has received an order from Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering of Robert Bosch GmbH, Gerlingen for its PiezoFlare 1200 Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) system.
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Endomagnetics Appoints Strategic Distributor

Nanotech-Now - March 3, 2013 - 7:45am
Endomagnetics, the company developing a portfolio of products to improve the standard of breast cancer management, has announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Sysmex Europe GmbH, a subsi...
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Renewable energy: Nanotubes to channel osmotic power

Nanotech-Now - March 3, 2013 - 7:45am
The salinity difference between fresh water and salt water could be a source of renewable energy. However, power yields from existing techniques are not high enough to make them viable. A solution to...
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A nanogel-based treatment for lupus

Nanotech-Now - March 3, 2013 - 7:45am
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissues, resulting in inflammation and tissue damage. Current treatments are focused on suppression...
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Space race under way to create quantum satellite

Nanotech-Now - March 3, 2013 - 7:45am
In this month's special edition of Physics World, focusing on quantum physics, Thomas Jennewein and Brendon Higgins from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Canada, desc...
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Researchers show that lipid nanoparticles are ideal for delivering genes and drugs

Nanotech-Now - March 3, 2013 - 7:45am
At the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Basque Public University (UPV/EHU) the Pharmacokinetics, Nanotechnology and Gene Therapy research team is using nanotechnology to develop new formulations that can be...
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Toxicity of two types of silver nanoparticles to aquatic crustaceans Daphnia magna and Thamnocephalus platyurus

Nanotech-Now - March 3, 2013 - 7:45am
Although silver nanoparticles (NPs) are increasingly used in various consumer products and produced in industrial scale, information on harmful effects of nanosilver to environmentally relevant organi...
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Arrowhead Receives Notice of Patent Allowance for New Protease Sensitive Masking Chemistry for DPC siRNA Delivery System

Nanotech-Now - March 3, 2013 - 7:45am
Arrowhead Research Corporation, a targeted therapeutics company, today announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. Patent Application Number...
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mPhase New Patent Application Would Protect the Delivery of Preset Topical Dosages: NanoDermatology Society Declares 2013 the Year of Topical Delivery

Nanotech-Now - March 3, 2013 - 7:45am
mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: XDSL) announced today that on the heels of filing a US letter patent application for automatic dispensing of preset dosages for a drug delivery system that the Nanode...
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