Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

Trends in Molecular Medicine, 600 Technology Square, 5th floor, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA The nanoscale, tiny by any definition, ranges from approximately 1 to 100 nanometers; for reference, a human hair is roughly 80,000 nanometers in width. Nanotechnology or molecular engineering at the nanoscale promises great benefits to molecular medicine. The merger of these fields necessitates the types of interdisciplinary ... Read More »

In public lecture at MIT, former dean describes progress in understanding malaria. Although engineering has long played a key role in developing technology for diagnosing and treating human disease, it has only recently started to have an impact on understanding the cellular and molecular basis of disease. In the past decade or so, engineers have started making major contributions to ... Read More »

Nanotechnology development firm Nano Terra Inc. of Cambridge has taken in $17.2 million of a planned $23.6 million venture funding round, according to federal documents. While the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission doesn’t list the backers in the new funding round, it does note as a director of the company Carmichael Roberts of North Bridge Venture Partners. ... Read More »

Microchips that ‘harvest’ the energy they need from their own surroundings, without depending on batteries or mains electricity. That will be possible now that Dutch researchers from the University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, together with colleagues from the universities of Nankai (China) and Utrecht, have for the first time succeeded in manufacturing a microchip with an efficient solar ... Read More »

Snake-like “Medusa front” offers “a view never before seen” to improve lithium batteries ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A benchtop version of the world’s smallest battery — its anode a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair — has been created by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jianyu Huang. To better study the anode’s characteristics, the ... Read More »

Sagentia, an international technology and product development company, announced today it has been hired by T2 Biosystems to work on the development of T2 Biosystems’ next generation of medical diagnostic products to improve medical care worldwide. “Sagentia’s commitment to T2 Biosystems directly reflects our mission to help our clients identify, adapt and deliver innovative technologies” T2 Biosystems’ proprietary technology combines ... Read More »

Richmond, VA (free-pressrelease) December 13, 2010 – At an average rate of 16 breaths a minute a CPAP user breathes out 7680 in an 8 hour sleep period. The CPAP mask will be coated with junk from user’s lungs and nose on an average 7680 times. Those junk on the mask can breed into Fungus, Yeast, E-Coli, MRSA, Bacteria, Mold, ... Read More »