Nano News & Events

Arrowhead Data Demonstrates RNAi Candidate ARC-520 Silences Hepatitis B Virus

Nanotech-Now - February 27, 2013 - 7:45am
-Single injection induces multi-log repression of viral RNA, proteins, and viral DNA -Long duration of effect lasting over 30 days -Regulatory submissions planned for Q2 2013
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SEMATECH’s Strategic Director Bryan Rice Named 2013 SPIE Fellow

Nanotech-Now - February 27, 2013 - 7:45am
SEMATECH announced today that Dr. Bryan J. Rice, on assignment from Intel Corporation as SEMATECH's director of Strategic Initiatives, was inducted as a 2013 Fellow by SPIE, the international society...
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Method development to estimate the purity of vesicle preparations using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis at the Cardiff University School of Medicine

Nanotech-Now - February 27, 2013 - 7:45am
NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being used in the development of a method to estimate the purity of vesicle preparations by comparing the ratio of nano-vesicle counts...
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English Nanomedicine Journal Published in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Nanotech-Now - February 27, 2013 - 7:45am
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences published Nanomedicine Journal in English on the applications of nanotechnology in medicine, pharmaceutics, and basic medical sciences.
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Home-Made Traffic Nanopaints Used in Longest Iranian Tunnel

Nanotech-Now - February 27, 2013 - 7:45am
The municipality of Tehran used traffic nanopaints produced by Pishgaman Fanavari Asia Company on the surface of the passages in Niyayesh Tunnel, the longest tunnel in Iran.
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Publication of Over 3,500 Nano-Related Articles in 2012 by Iranian Researchers

Nanotech-Now - February 27, 2013 - 7:45am
Iranian researchers ranked 8th in the world by publishing 3,512 nanotechnology-related ISI indexed articles in 2012, the latest statistics in StatNano database said.
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Connecting the (quantum) dots: New spin technique moves researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Delft University of Technology closer to creating the first viable high-speed quantum computer

Nanotech-Now - February 27, 2013 - 7:45am
Recent research offers a new spin on using nanoscale semiconductor structures to build faster computers and electronics. Literally.
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The cradle of the nanoparticle: A new model facilitates predictions about how nanoparticles form and gives clues about how the process can be controlled

Nanotech-Now - February 27, 2013 - 7:45am
Nanoparticles are versatile harbingers of hope: They can serve as active medical agents or contrast media just as well as electronic storage media or reinforcement for structural materials. Researcher...
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Laser Mastery Narrows Down Sources of Superconductivity: MIT and Brookhaven Lab physicists measured fleeting electron waves to uncover the elusive mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
Identifying the mysterious mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) remains one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics. This remarkable phenomenon allows electri...
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$175K Technology Grant Offered through April 20, 2013 for Startups

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
The $175K, 2013 Sustainable Valley iGrant is a grant designed to bring new technology or new technology-based businesses to life by providing funding, business support, equipment, facilities, and expe...
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Samsung backs UPC-led project to develop graphene-based micro-antennas

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
Anticipated applications include communication between processors on a single chip and the creation of networks of wireless nanosensors. This is one of the innovations that the UPC will be showcasing...
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Light from Silicon Nanocrystal LEDs

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
Silicon nanocrystals have a size of a few nanometers and possess a high luminous potential. Scientists of KIT and the University of Toronto/Canada have now succeeded in manufacturing silicon-based lig...
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Formation of nanoparticles can now be studied molecule-by-molecule

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
Atmospheric aerosol particles affect our climate by slowing down the global warming. After years of studying the international research group led by Academy Professor Markku Kulmala from the Universit...
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UCLA researchers further refine 'NanoVelcro' device to grab single cancer cells from blood: Improvement enables 'liquid biopsies' for metastatic melanoma

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
Researchers at UCLA report that they have refined a method they previously developed for capturing and analyzing cancer cells that break away from patients' tumors and circulate in the blood. With the...
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UCLA researchers develop new method of powering tiny devices

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
FINDINGS: Electromagnetic devices, from power drills to smart-phones, require an electric current to create the magnetic fields that allow them to function. But with smaller devices, efficiently deli...
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Zimbabwe minister tours ILPB and COE in preparation for next steps in UB-Zimbabwe partnership

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
The Hon. Professor Heneri Dzinotyiweyi, Zimbabwe minister of science and technology development, visited Buffalo on Tuesday, Feb. 19, to tour two University at Buffalo research facilities and discuss...
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Future Materials – Natural Biopolymers Can Be Turned Into Nanofibers With New Device

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
Hyaluronic acid is a common ingredient in cosmetic creams, eye drops or injections improving the functioning of joints with damaged cartilage. Now, not only are scientists able to produce nanofibers f...
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Imec Presents Low-Power Chip for Intra-Cardiac Ventricular Fibrillation Detection

Nanotech-Now - February 25, 2013 - 7:45am
Imec demonstrated a low-power (20µW), intra-cardiac signal processing chip for the detection of ventricular fibrillation at this week's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2013) in Sa...
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Radioluminescent nanocages image and treat

Nanotechweb - February 25, 2013 - 5:37am
Cerenkov-light-emitting radioactive gold shows promise for cancer therapy.
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View the Malvern Instruments toolkit for polyolefin characterization at SPE 2013

Nanotech-Now - February 23, 2013 - 7:45am
Viscotek multi-detector gel permeation chromatography (GPC) systems for highly productive, information rich, polymer characterization will take center stage on the Malvern Instruments booth at the 201...
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