Winner Medical Group Inc., a leading manufacturer and exporter of medical, wound care and home care products in China, today announced that it has opened its first three PurCotton pilot chain stores in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China on December 31, 2009.

The presentation, entitled 'Bioabsorbable Polymers for Medical Devices', will focus on selecting and using bioabsorbables for innovative medical devices.

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created biodegradable nanosized particles that can easily slip through the body's sticky and viscous mucus secretions to deliver a sustained-release medication cargo.

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced that it has entered into a License and Research and Development agreement related to its carbon nanotube composite technology (epoxy/CNT) with a prominent sporting goods manufacturer.

New analysis from Frost and Sullivan finds that several research studies undertaken in the recent past have thrown up mixed results on the negative impacts of nanotechnology.

Today, Enel Green Power, Sharp and STMicroelectronics signed an agreement for the manufacture of triple-junction thin-film photovoltaic panels in Italy. At the same time, Enel Green Power and Sharp signed a further agreement to jointly develop solar farms.

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have imaged the self-assembly of nanoparticles, unveiling the blueprint for building designer molecular machines atom-by-atom.

CyberOptics Semiconductor, a subsidiary of CyberOptics Corp., announced today that it has tapped leading Asian semiconductor agent Hermes-Epitek Singapore to support growth of its WaferSense brand in the region and represent the line of wireless metrology devices for wafer processing equipment throughout Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.

Uni-Pixel, Inc., the developer of a color display technology called Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter and thin-film materials branded under the name Opcuity, today announced that it will provide private scheduled demonstrations of its latest developments in both display systems and Opcuity films during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, from Thursday, January 7 through Saturday, January 9, 2010.

Funding has been granted for a new centre at Riso DTU to increase the operating reliability of wind turbines.

A team of researchers in California and Massachusetts has developed a 'cocktail' of different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within the bloodstream to locate, adhere to and kill cancerous tumors.

JEOL USA is pleased to announce that the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) has selected a JEOL cryo-electron microscope for its emerging structural biology program.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that a single atom - a calcium, in fact - can control how bacteria walk.

n the current issue of Science, Stuart Lindsay, director of Arizona State University's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics at the Biodesign Institute, along with his colleagues, demonstrates the potential of a method in which a single-stranded ribbon of DNA is threaded through a carbon nanotube, producing voltage spikes that provide information about the passage of DNA bases as they pass through the tube - a process known as translocation.

Federal research dollars will help South Dakota State University scientists build a first-of-its-kind microscope that could ultimately help scientists at SDSU and elsewhere develop better solar cells for converting sunlight to electricity.

Emerald BioStructures (formerly deCODE biostructures) announced today a publication in the December 27, 2009 advance online issue of Nature Biotechnology, detailing the application of structure-based drug design (SBDD) to engineer new allosteric small molecule modulators of the enzyme phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4), with reduced side effects

Atomic Force F+E and Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM) announce the first European AFM in Biology Class to be held February 23-25, 2010 at Atomic Force Corporate office in Mannheim, Germany.

Investors and corporate licensees from Fortune 1000 companies will meet once again in Arlington, Texas for the eighth annual WBTshowcase (WBT2010), the world's largest forum offering a prescreened, pre-prepped collection of undiscovered companies and intellectual property emanating from top universities, labs and research institutions from across the country.

Luna Innovations Incorporated has acquired certain intellectual property assets of Tego Biosciences, its main competitor in developing medicines based on carbon nanomaterials.

Dr Thierry Bontoux has stepped down from his position of Deputy Director of the LCN in charge of Business. His decision will be effective from the 31st of December 2009 and he will then focus on his new venture, TBx-Consulting.