Some of the leading scientists in bioengineering, nanotechnology and pharmaco-genomics will gather on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 to discuss how to harness the tools of these emerging fields to develop new diagnostics and treatments for complex diseases.

Nanocyl announced today it has appointed NRC to be its commercial partner for NC 7000 multiwall carbon nanotubes and Plasticyl thermoplastic concentrates marketed to automakers in Germany.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University has chosen the NanoSight LM-10 system to support their research into the synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles, principally metal oxides.

Fluidigm Corporation has announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service has purchased a Fluidigm microfluidic-based EP1 System to help develop and validate focused 96- and 384-SNP (single-nucleotide polymorphism) panels for testing America's dairy and beef cattle.

The Department of Energy announced today that 24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available hours at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories have been awarded to investigate materials for developing lithium air batteries, capable of powering a car for 500 miles on a single charge.

Stagecoach Group has reduced its CO2 emissions from its bus fleet in the UK by more than 100,000 tonnes over the past five years through use of a hi-tech fuel additive.

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park, can speed up photons (particles of light) to seemingly faster-than-light speeds through a stack of materials by adding a single, strategically placed layer.

Auf Initiative der Halberstaedter Panadur GmbH, die eine besonders kostenguenstige und umweltfreundliche Nano-Beschichtungstechnologie auf Basis spezieller Polymere entwickelt hat, soll ein laenderuebergreifendes Nano-Kompetenznetzwerk entstehen.

In an advance that might interest Q-Branch, the gadget makers for James Bond, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and partners from industry and academia have designed and tested experimental antennas that are highly efficient and yet a fraction of the size of standard antenna systems with comparable properties.

A revolutionary DIY sperm count testing kit has been developed by scientists that will give men the easiest option of determining their fertility.

New material finds 'needle in a haystack,' shows promise for clean-up.

Protestors have caused the public to be banned from four debates on nanotechnology taking place across France.

Researchers trying to restore vision damaged by disease have found promise in a tiny implant that sows seeds of new cells in the eye.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have described mathematically why some vesicles constrict to form a figure-eight shape. As part of this process, they have established that this constriction differs in its details to what was previously thought, and that its shape is dependent on the material characteristics of the components involved.

AMETEK, Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of Sterling Ultra Precision, a privately held reseller of machine tools for the ophthalmic lens market.

Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of high-quality DesignWare High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) 1.4 transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) digital controllers and PHY IP solutions that are compliant to the standard specification.

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of the Analog FastSPICE unified circuit verification platform (AFS Platform), and Solido Design Automation, provider of Variation Designer, today announced a validated flow for rapid reduction in variation risk in nanometer designs at the transistor level.

Agilent Technologies, Inc. and Varian, Inc. today announced that they have been granted conditional antitrust clearance from the European Commission for Agilent's proposed acquisition of Varian.

Like many throughout the country, you may be asking how the billions poured into science R+D has helped stimulate our economy. Well, look no further than the nanotechnology instrument manufacture, Nanovea based in Irvine, CA. 2009 just ended as their first branded year with new hires, new instruments and more business to send to their local machine shops and parts suppliers.

Flu viruses are extremely adaptable and difficult to combat as a result. Scientists in Berlin have now identified new starting points for the treatment of influenza.