mPhase Technologies, Inc. has retained the Investor Relations Group to serve as its national investor relations agency.

Am Leibniz-Institut fuer Festkoerper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (IFW) wird ab 1.1.2010 eine von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) gefoerderte Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe eingerichtet. Mit dem auf 5 Jahre angelegten Projekt sollen die Wechselwirkungen der Elektronen erforscht und simuliert werden, die bei physikalischen Phaenomenen wie Supraleitung oder Magnetismus eine wichtige Rolle spielen.

It's the ultimate goal in the treatment of cancer: tailoring a person's therapy based on his or her genetic makeup. While a lofty goal, scientists are steadily moving forward, rapidly exploiting new technologies. Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center report a significant advance in this field of research using a new chip that looks for hundreds of mutations in dozen of genes.

mPhase Technologies, Inc. today announced that its consumer products division, mPower Technologies Inc., will unveil the mPower Emergency Illuminator at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Transforming lead into gold is an impossible feat, but a similar type of 'alchemy' is not only possible, but cost-effective too. Three Penn State researchers have shown that certain combinations of elemental atoms have electronic signatures that mimic the electronic signatures of other elements.

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a study in the current issue of Cell Transplantation that explores ways to successfully keep stem cells 'forever young' during implantation by slowing their growth, differentiation and proliferation.

The Supervisory Council of RUSNANO has approved the corporation?s participation in a project aimed at establishing the production of state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries, the first in the country.

Denis Wirtz, Johns Hopkins University professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of the Engineering in Oncology Center, has been named the Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor in the Whiting School of Engineering.

Arrowhead Research Corporation today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Tego Biosciences, has completed a definitive asset purchase agreement for the sale of its non-cash intellectual property to Luna Innovations, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of new-generation products that include pharmaceutical nanomedicines.

Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it's way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the workings of live cells, particularly in the way they employ iron-sulfur clusters.

Dr. Scott Rickert, President of the nanotechnology company Nanofilm, recently took the media to task for sensationalist stories on nanotechnology and the environment.

Researchers in Japan have developed a technique to locate cancer cells by synthesizing a near-infrared light-emitting protein and then conjugating it with a therapeutic antibody to produce a probe for cancer cells.

Many mysteries remain about TCS signaling mechanisms, partly because the proteins involved are complicated and contain floppy, mobile regions that make structural analysis arduous. Researchers in Japan recently achieved a breakthrough on this front, however, by assembling a high-resolution reconstruction of the ThkA/TrrA TCS complex from Thermotoga maritima.

Applied Technology Holdings, Inc., today reported that the Company has formed its first subsidiary for sports based technologies called MVP Sports Technologies, Inc.

RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais held a press conference in Moscow to announce the results of the Corporation's activity in 2009.

Nanoscientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have received a prestigious grant to develop new magnetic materials that could help reduce global warming and the nation's dependence on foreign resources.

Sophisticated as it is, a superconducting linac is a conventional particle accelerator that, in a machine like the Next Generation Light Source (NGLS) now under study, can be used to produce superbright laser beams. The inverse is also true: powerful lasers can be used to accelerate charged particles - but in ways that are anything but conventional.

Die baden-wuerttembergischen Firma Nanocraft Coating (Engen) will mit Unterstuetzung der DBU voellig neuartige Beschichtungsverfahren entwickeln, die es ermoeglichen, Edelmetalle wesentlich duenner als bisher aufzutragen. Die DBU foerdert das Projekt mit rund 122.000 Euro.

Leticia Espinosa Alonso put catalysts under the microscope and discovered a world of new possibilities.

No other element in the periodic table bonds to itself in an extended network with the strength of the carbon-carbon bond. This special nature of carbon, combined with the molecular perfection of single-walled nanotubes endows these nanotubes with exceptional material properties, such as very high electrical and thermal conductivity, strength, stiffness, and toughness. As a result, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are the strongest material known to science. SWCNTs potentially can add incredible strength, stiffness and electrical conductivity to all kinds of composite materials. Unfortunately, they are always held together in rope form due to their extremely small dimension and van der Waals attraction and their strength can neither be exploited nor measured. However, if several SWCNTs are concentrically nested in a confined space, the sliding issue can be resolved and the SWCNTs may share the applied tensile load to realize nanometer-scale materials remarkably stronger than the individual SWCNTs.