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  Konarka Photo The secret to better solar panels just might be in a big magnet.The industrial-strength magnet is inside a roomful of experimental work on New Haven’s Hillhouse Avenue, where it makes ultra-tiny “nanowires” all stand up in one direction. For Yale engineering professor Chinedum Osuji and his colleagues, this is a breakthrough: It allows energy to travel through ... Read More »

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 3, 2012.  A coalition of six consumer safety groups filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 21, 2011, citing the FDA’s chronic failure to regulate materials derived from nanotechnology (nanomaterials) used in sunscreens, cosmetics and drugs. The lawsuit demands that FDA respond to a May 2006 petition the coalition filed calling for regulatory ... Read More »

University of Alberta researcher shrinks medical tests, makes them more affordable University of Alberta oncology professor Linda Pilarski, along with her research team, has created a microfluidic chip that can test for up to 80 different genetic markers of cancer. (photo courtesy Dammika Manage) SASKATOON (CUP) — In a rural medical office, only the bare minimum of medical technology is ... Read More »

NVE Corp., an Eden Prairie company that makes magnetic nanotechnology products for computer memory, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court charging a competitor with infringing on three of its patents. NVE alleged that Everspin Technologies Inc. of Chandler, Ariz., used three of NVE’s patents to make what are called Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory products, according to the suit filed ... Read More »