A NEW project to develop instruments to detect and classify nanoparticles in the environment has been launched under FP7, the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme. The Smart-Nano project is coordinated by the Swiss Electronic and Microtechnology Centre (Centre Suisse d’Electronique…
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HIV research pioneer is keynote speaker at xMap 2012
LUMINEX has announced the first details of its 2012 Planet xMap symposium, the tenth in the series. Dr Jean William Pape, director and founder of the Gheskio Centres in Haiti, will deliver a keynote presentation at the event, held 10-11…
Nanotech meets biotech at Nano4Life 2012 event
THE SPEAKER line-up for the annual one-day Nano4Life conference and exhibition, being held on 17 April 2012, has been confirmed. Hosted at Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst, UK, on 17 April 2012, this fourth event in the series sees presentations in four…
Towards a future of personalised medicine
SPECIAL REPORT: LabHomepage attended the 9th Planet xMap conference and symposium, held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. With nearly 500 delegates and almost 40 papers presented in 12 sessions over two days, Planet xMap is a significant scientific…
Innovation prize for lung-on-a-chip
A PODIUM presentation describing a ‘Human breathing Lung-on-a-chip for drug screening and nanotoxicity’ has been named as the winner of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS)’s 2012 innovation award. The presentation, by Dan Dongeun Huh of Harvard University,…
Developing animal-free vaccine media
MOST vaccines today are manufactured using fetal bovine serum or other animal-based components, which raises important safety concerns over prion and viral contamination. This month, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) made a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant…