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Advance in Dendrimer-Based Drug-Delivery Program Reduces Toxicity of Cancer Drug - Starpharma Holdings Ltd today reported an important advance in its dendrimer-based drug-delivery program.

Nanotechnology battery for revolutionary Russian sports car - It has a look of a smooth Lamborghini, the color of a Cayenne Sport, a girl's name, and 240 horsepower. The Russian sports car Marussia has been unveiled to the public - to both admiration and skepticism.

California's Stem Cell Agency Invests in Cell Culture Integrated Fluidic Circuit System - California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell agency, has awarded Fluidigm Corporation and Stemgent, Inc. a grant to develop a cell culture chip (C2C) and support system that will help researchers accelerate stem cell research in California.

Toshiba, IBM, and AMD Develop World's Smallest FinFET Static Random Access Memory Cell with High-k/Metal Gate - Toshiba Corporation, IBM, and AMD today announced that they have together developed a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell that has an area of only 0.128 square micrometers, the world?s smallest functional SRAM cell that makes use of fin-shaped Field Effect Transistors (FinFETs).

3D Biosensor Platform by Silicon Kinetics Receives Most Innovative Product Award from CONNECT - SKi Pro 3D biomolecular interaction analysis platform by Silicon Kinetics Inc. has been recognized as the Most Innovative Product in the 'Diagnostics and Research Tools' category in the 21st Annual Most Innovative New Product Awards by CONNECT.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute to use Heidelberg Instruments Technology in Biomedical Research - Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of a table top maskless laser patterning systemto the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Maryland, USA. The system will be used for prototyping and fabrication of various BIOMEMS devices and other advanced biomedical applications.

NANOWEB Advanced Nanofiber Technology for Air Filtration, Liquid Filtration, and Performance Barrier Nonwoven Applications - Developed with H+V's HVision technology platform, the material sets a new performance standard for a broad array of air filtration media, liquid filtration media, and performance barrier nonwoven applications.

HamaTech-APE Introduces Low Risk HMxSquare Photomask Processing System - HamaTech Advanced Process Equipment, a member of the Singulus Group and an established market leader of semiconductor equipment, today announced the release of the HMxSquare, a new photomask processing system with 20 years of proven results.

Self-warming hand and body lotions - Sandia National Laboratories resident microencapsulation expert, Duane Schneider, is working with an Albuquerque company to use microencapsulation technology in a novel self-warming hand and body lotion.

Fourth international nanotechnology conference EuroNanoForum 2009 - The next EuroNanoForum conference will be held in Prague from June 2-5, 2009, during the Czech presidency of the European Union. It is an official event of the EU supported by the European Commission.

Nanotechnology litigation: Winning the war before it starts - Companies manufacturing, using, or selling nanoproducts in the Unites States would be well-served, at this early stage, to think proactively about minimizing future litigation risks. Candidly, the legal world has thus far lagged behind the growth in nano-related products and enterprises. But if the encyclopedic history of toxic tort, product liability, and environmental litigation in this country is any guide whatsoever, there is no reason enterprising plaintiffs? attorneys are less likely to tackle nanotechnology than other lucrative products and technological advances. Indeed, references to a potential link between carbon nanotubes and lung cancer have already sprouted on plaintiff-oriented websites across the country.

Synthetic Biology Project gives away 5 iPods - The Synthetic Biology Project is being launched to identify gaps in our knowledge of the potential risks of the field, explore public perceptions towards it, and examine governance options that will both ensure public safety and facilitate innovation.

Yissum launches cleantech program including nanotechnology - Yissum, the Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is launching a 1 million U.S. dollar programme to support the development of outstanding cleantech inventions by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Green Energy Summit 2009 program now available - The summit is a highly efficient forum for varied stakeholders from solar, wind, biomass, IT, transport, construction, aviation, nanotechnology and biotechnology to bring together the business and science of the most important and relevant Green Energy and Clean technologies.

Bayer Strengthens Research and Development With A EUR 2.8 Billion Budget - In 2008 the company?s research and development budget is at around EUR 2.8 billion. This represents the biggest R+D budget in Germany in the chemical and pharmaceutical sector - and amounts to about five percent of all research and development spending by German industry as a whole.

PerkinElmer Adds High Performance FT-IR/FT-FIR Spectrometer to Spectrum Series - The Spectrum(TM) 400 FT-IR/FT-FIR is an advanced dual-range spectrometer that combines mid-infrared (IR) and far-infrared (FIR) spectroscopy in a single instrument. With automatic beamsplitter changeover, it offers flexible performance for advanced research and industrial laboratories.

NanoKTN and The Wellcome Trust collaborate on Nano 4 Life conference - The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK's primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, has announced that their first Nano 4 Life event will take place on Wednesday 11th February hosted by The Wellcome Trust in London.

Selah Technologies Establishes Advisory Board - Selah Technologies announced today that the company has appointed five members to its Advisory Board to help steward the company through its continued growth. The newly appointed Advisory Board members are Bob Strazzella, Buddy Thompson, Hayne Hipp, Jim Self and David Cornelius.

Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology go to James Tour and George Schatz - The 2008 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes, named in honor of pioneer physicist Richard Feynman, are given in two categories, one for experimental work and the other for theory in advances in nanotechnology.

Virage Logic Expands 40-Nanometer Embedded Memory and Logic Library IP Portfolio - Virage Logic Corporation today announced the expansion of its silicon proven 40-nanometer (nm) embedded memory compiler and logic library product portfolio with new availability for low power (LP) processes.

Nanotechnology conference: Theoretical assessment of the biological effects of nanomaterials - The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics announced the Nordita research program and symposium on 'Theoretical Assessment of the Biological Effects of Nanomaterials'. The event will take place from March 6-28, 2009, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Nanotechnology researchers create nontoxic clean-up method for potentially toxic nanomaterials - University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed the first natural, nontoxic method for biodegrading carbon nanotubes, a finding that could help diminish the environmental and health concerns that mar the otherwise bright prospects of the super-strong materials commonly used in products, from electronics to plastics.

Epeius Biotech Awarded Patents in Europe for Targeted Genetic Anti-Cancer Nanomedicine - Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation has received two additional European patents for the platform targeting technologies and molecular designs that enable precision gene delivery to primary cancers and metastatic lesions that have spread throughout the body.

Iron nanoparticles released from melting icebergs could slow global warming - Melting icebergs are doing their own bit to halt the onward march of global warming. By releasing iron into the Southern Oceans, melting icebergs are fuelling the growth of plankton - which help to remove a substantial amount of CO2 from the atmosphere.

European Union funds EUR 3 million nanotechnology risk research - Dr Andrew Nelson, a chemist at the University of Leeds, will lead the project which has been awarded EUR 3 million by the European Union and brings together experts from the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Spain to assess how nanotechnology impacts on our environment.

BASF And Vorbeck To Jointly Develop Graphene Composite Materials - BASF and Vorbeck Materials Corp. have established a joint research program to develop graphene-based formulations and composite materials.

Researchers create 5-inch transparent, flexible nanotube transistor plastic disk - It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon it using a potentially inexpensive low-temperature process.

Nanotubes: Wie die Energie fliesst - Neue Erkenntnisse ueber den Energiefluss in carbon nanotubes beschreiben Forscher in der Zeitschrift Nature Physics. Ihnen ist es weltweit erstmals gelungen, die Groesse von Exzitonen zu messen.

There is something fishy about these nanotubes - Researchers have demonstrated that salmon DNA can be used to develop a simple and scalable method for sorting carbon nanotubes that reduces the cost, as compared to commonly used synthetic DNA, by a factor of 1,000. Before carbon nanotubes (CNTs), especially single-walled ones, can live up to the many expectations for their use in nanoelectronics, researchers have to overcome a seemingly trivial but nonetheless major obstacle: how to separate a produced batch of nanotubes according to their properties such as diameter, length, chirality and electronic attributes. Current production methods for CNTs result in a jumble of units with different properties, all lumped together in bundles, and often blended with some amount of amorphous carbon. These mixtures are of little practical use since many advanced applications, especially for nanoelectronics, are sensitively dependent on tube structures and the slightest deviation from a desired set of parameters can lead to vastly different performance results.

Super-resolution microscope technique can resolve cell features down to 20-30 nanometers - Thanks to a new 'super-resolution' fluorescence microscopy technique, Harvard University researchers have succeeded in resolving the features of cells as miniscule as 20-30 nanometers, an order of magnitude smaller than conventional fluorescence light microscopy images.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supports Hastings Center work on ethical issues in synthetic biology - The Hastings Center, long at the forefront of interdisciplinary research into ethical issues in emerging technology, has received a $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a two-year project to examine the issues surrounding new developments in synthetic biology.

NanoArt 2008 international nanotechnology art competition deadline nearing - Submission deadline for NanoArt 2008 is January 15, 2009.

Industry partnership puts Hopkins nanobiotechnology innovations and students to work - Launching the careers of its students and finding the best application for the innovations developed in its laboratories are two top priorities for John Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT).

NanoEthics journal features nanotechnology human enhancement and societal challenges - The Nanoethics Group today announced publishing a symposium of papers focusing on ethical and societal problems arising from human enhancement applications of emerging technologies, especially nanotechnology.

Rochester biologist modifies theory of cells' engines - Researchers have shed new light on how the molecular motors in cells move organelles within cells, and the results may eventually lead to new approaches to fighting pathogens and neurological diseases.