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Source: Nanotechwire.com
http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=5527

A novel approach to synthesizing nanowires (NWs) allows their direct integration with microelectronic systems for the first time, as well as their ability to act as highly sensitive biomolecule detectors that could revolutionize biological diagnostic applications, according to a report in Nature.   “We electronically plugged into the biochemical system of cells,” said senior author Mark Reed, Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering & Applied Science. “These developments have profound implications both for application of nanoscience technologies and for the speed and sensitivity they bring to the future of diagnostics.” (more…)

By staff reporter, LabTechnologist.com / 6 Feb. 2008
http://www.labtechnologist.com/news/ng.asp?
n=82978-tu-delft-bionanoscience-emerging-scientific-disipline-the-kavli-foundation-nanotechnology

Delft Technology University (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, has decided to create a new bionanoscience department in a clear indication of what it feels is one of the key up and coming scientific fields. Over the next decade, TU Delft will invest €10m derived from its assets in the new department, which will form part of the university’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience. The Kavli Foundation will also donate $5m (€3.4m).
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Source:  Nanowerk News, January 24, 2008
http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=4209.php

The Naughton Institute, a €100 million state-of-the-art new science facility at Trinity College Dublin which will house Ireland’s first purpose-built nanoscience research institute, the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) and the world’s first Science Gallery was officially opened by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern TD, at 4pm, January 23, 2008. CRANN has received substantial government investment, €74 million of which has come in research grants through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). (more…)

Source: MTB Europe, 5 February 2008
http://mtbeurope.info/news/2008/802005.htm

Nanoscience Europe (NanoSci-E+) has announced a call for proposals for nanoscience research funding in Europe.  Proposals must include organisations from at least three qualifying European countries (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom).
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Nanoscience Instruments introduces a new line of Silicon-Nitride probes for Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). The new HYDRA series is available world-wide and fills a need in the market for AFM probes specifically designed for imaging soft materials such as biological and polymeric samples. HYDRA probes feature a unique, patent-pending design that combines low stress, silicon-nitride cantilevers with sharp Silicon tips.
Phoenix, AZ, February 13, 2008
Source: Nanoscience Instruements press release/PRWeb
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb692324.htm

Nanoscience Instruments today announced the launch of a new line of Silicon-Nitride probes for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs). The new HYDRA series is available world-wide and fills a need in the market for AFM probes specifically designed for imaging soft materials such as biological and polymeric samples.  HYDRA series probes feature a unique, patent-pending design that combines low stress, silicon-nitride cantilevers with sharp Silicon tips (radii of less than 10nm). Offered in a variety of spring constants, they are ideal for applications ranging from highly sensitive force curve measurements to soft contact mode and gentle fluid tapping mode experiments. (more…)