Probe in Biological Technology

Nano measurement in the third dimension

... (PTB) have developed a metrological scanning probe microscope into a micro and nano coordinate ... PTB were incorporated in a metrological scanning probe microscope based on a commercial nano-positioning ... The new functionalities given by the measuring probe and the software extend the ...

Carbon Design Innovations, Inc. Introduces Carbon Nanotube Probe Technology for Atomic Force Microscopy, CNT-Probes Deliver New Level of AFM Imaging Performance

... in AFM productivity will be based on improved probe technology," said Vance Nau, CEO, Carbon ... to the surface. The CNT is at the core of the probe structure and the CNT is securely anchored ... and have longer imaging lifetimes than other probe types. In addition, the ability to reinforce ...

China Medical Technologies Receives SFDA Approval for Its Bladder Cancer FISH Probe

... has received approval for its Bladder Cancer FISH probe (the "Probe") from the State Food and Drug ... in the People's Republic of China. The probe is an advanced molecular diagnostic test kit that ... A number of hospitals in China have applied the probe for diagnosing patients with hematuria and have ...

Researchers develop new way to see single RNA molecules inside living cells

... Biomedical engineers have developed a new type of probe that allows them to visualize single ribonucleic ... Tech and Emory University. Details of the probe production process and RNA imaging strategy were ... a targeted RNA molecule from a single unbound probe because the former lit up two or three times ...

Domain walls that conduct electricity

... piezoresponse force microscope (PFM): as the PFM probe moves across a sample, an alternating electric ... features of the film surface, the scanning probe was used in atomic force microscopy (AFM) mode. In AFM the probe effectively "feels" its way across the surface, ...

Reaction Monitoring of Processes Under Pressure Using In Situ FTIR

... monitoring of many chemical species. Our range of probe technologies, specifically designed for pressure ... bar. This webinar will outline the relevant probe designs and technology for monitoring reactions ... very common ways to interface our Comp™ probe technology into a process. ### Read the full ...

China Medical Technologies Receives SFDA Approval for Breast Cancer HER-2 FISH Probe

... - the First SFDA Approved FISH probe in China BEIJING, Nov. 12 ... for its Breast Cancer HER-2 FISH probe (the "HER-2 FISH probe") from the State Food and ... ("SFDA") in China. The HER-2 FISH probe is designed to detect amplification of the ...

Researchers write protein nanoarrays using a fountain pen and electric fields

... arrays using a tool they call the nanofountain probe (NFP). "The NFP works much like a fountain ... high as 80 microns/second. Each nanofountain probe chip has a set of ink reservoirs that hold the ... an electrical field between the nanofountain probe and substrate, they could control the transport ...

New kind of MRI enables study of magnets for computer memory

... microscopy. They dubbed the technique "scanned probe ferromagnetic resonance force microscopy," or scanned probe FMRFM, and it involves detecting a magnetic ... a tiny silicon bar with an even tinier magnetic probe on its tip. As ...

Endocare Reports 2008 First Quarter Financial Results

... advantages that the V-Probe offers. Providing one probe that can create five different-sized isotherms ... procedure estimates as a business metric with probe sales data. probe sales are reported in two categories: straight ...

New Dual Cold Probe From Varian, Inc. Increases Sensitivity and Reduces Analysis Times for 13C NMR Experiments

... use with the Varian NMR System, the new probe is Varian's most sensitive probe for 13C detected NMR experiments. The XSens probe offers productivity and data quality enhancements ...

Double Resonance Probe for Liquid State NMR Applications From Varian, Inc. Increases Productivity for Routine Analyses

... VARI) announced the release of its new OneNMR(TM) probe for double resonance NMR applications involving liquid-state samples. The OneNMR probe product line incorporates proprietary Varian technologies that enable users to employ a single probe rather than switching probes for different ...

Assembly technique for tiny wires may eventually help detect cancer and other diseases

... that will produce nanowires. They can attach probe molecules to the wires off chip, using a variety ... wires treated off-chip with entirely different probe molecules that are attached to the wires using ... can detect target molecules when they bind to the probe molecules on the nanowires and change the wire's ...

Cascade Microtech Introduces World's First 45 nm-capable DC/RF Parametric Probe Card Solutions, Lowers Cost of Ownership

... introduced two new Pyramid(R) parametric probe cards that allow single-pass high performance DC ... 65 nm, 45 nm and beyond. These leading-edge probe cards leverage Cascade Microtech's new Pyramid Plus(TM) parametric probe card manufacturing technology. Pyramid Plus ...

Escalon(R) Announces FDA 510(K) Clearance for VascuView(TM) Visual Ultrasound System For Assisted Vascular Access

... built on the Microsoft Windows XP platform. The probe itself contains the ultrasound circuitry and ... interface -- Scan operation controls on the probe itself allowing maintenance of sterile ... devices utilize a miniature Doppler ultrasound probe that is positioned within the lumen of a needle. ...

Nanotechnology innovation may revolutionize gene detection in a single cell

... the self-assembled DNA nanoarrays as nucleic acid probe tiles, which look like a nanosized postage stamp. ... yield. Yans team designed three different DNA probe tiles to detect three different RNA genes along ... to tell the tiles apart from each other. Each probe can be distinguished by its own bar code, so we ...

Escalon(R) Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance for Sonomed MASTER-VU(TM) B-Scan System

... The MASTER-VU(TM) System consists of a B-scan probe that can be interfaced to a standard personal ... most ophthalmic physician offices, purchasing the probe and software offers complete portability for use ... offices allows the physician to carry only the probe from office to office. We expect that the ...

IBM and Imago find a crucial difficulty in semiconductor device scaling

... dopant atoms in semiconductor devices. Atom probe tomography was used to quantify the location and ... of the Imago LEAP 3000X Si laser assisted atom probe to make this measurement is the fruition of many ... development. We now have a powerful new way to probe the atomic positions of dopants in a ...

A Swiss Team Uses Transcranial MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound to Treat Patients With Functional Brain Disorders

... such as neuropathic pain or Parkinson's disease by inserting a tiny probe through the cranium and brain to reach and ablate damaged tissue. ... "Also, only patients whose target tissue lies in the clear path of the probe are eligible for the invasive procedure," he said. "We now have ...

Bioinformatics Expert Dr. Jiaan Yang Joins Sundia MediTech With Innovative PFSC Technology

... Sundia has acquired Protein Folding Shape Code (PFSC) technology for doing probe binding site for drug discovery from Microtech Nano LLC, a R&D Company ... her, the PFSC is able to effectively screen protein 3D structure database, probe new indications, explore potential side effects, and help better ...

Researchers peer into nanowires to measure dopant properties

... into the nanowire during synthesis. Now, using a technique called atom probe tomography, Lincoln Lauhon, assistant professor of materials science and ... and his group performed the research at Northwestern's Center for Atom probe Tomography, which uses a Local Electrode Atom ProbeTM microscope to ...

Nanoscale dimensioning is fast, cheap with new NIST optical technique

... imposed by wavelength of lightyou cant get a precise image with a probe three times the objects size. NIST researcher Ravikiran Attota gets around ... is easily under $50,000, which is much less expensive than electron or probe microscopes currently used for measuring materials at the nanoscale, ...

Spallation Neutron Source sends first neutrons to 'Big Bang' beam line

... studies planned for the new, intense beam line are experiments that probe the neutron-related mysteries associated with the "Big Bang." ... studies in nuclear physics. "While other beam lines use neutrons as a probe to study materials, the object for much of the work proposed at the FNPB ...

Carbon Nanoprobes, Inc Announces Production Agreement With Leading MEMS Foundry

... and launch of CNProbes' flagship product, a carbon nanotube probe tip for use in the atomic force microscope (AFM). These tips are a ... The key business challenge to the commercialization of carbon nanotube probe tips has been scalable production. CN Probes is the first manufacturer ...

Detecting dangerous chemicals with lasers, exploring the brain's circuitry with light and more

... been done by lining up tiny electrodes within or near single neurons to probe their electrical activity. Though well established, this method is ... Nurmikko at Brown University have created a new type of dye-free optical probe that can directly sense naturally occurring neural activity. They have ...

New molecular imaging techniques may lead to advances in disease treatment

... a promising new platform for the development of new reporter gene and probe combinations. Antibody-based reporter genes have several potential ... over other combinations. For example, the pharmacokinetics of the reporter probe can easily be optimized, and probes can identify antibodies with much ...

Data storage using ultra-small needles

... research institute. Being able to control the position of each separate probe is essential for realising a system with extremely high densities. Le ... is maintained and the applied voltage is varied, the distance between the probe apex and the storage medium can be adjusted from several nanometres to ...

Femtogram-level chemical measurements now possible, U. of I. team reports

... analysis of femtogram samples can be achieved using a heated cantilever probe in an atomic force microscope, said William P. King, a Kritzer Faculty ... its Web site. The new technique hinges upon a special silicon cantilever probe with an integrated heater-thermometer. The cantilever tip temperature can ...

Rosetta Genomics Selects PCR as Platform for its microRNA-based Diagnostics to be Launched in 2008, Licensed Nanogen's MGB Probe Technology

... to be Launched in 2008 and Will Incorporate Nanogen's MGB probe Technology Rosetta Genomics Will use the Licensed Technology in its ... of which are expected to launch in 2008. The company has licensed the MGB probe technology from Nanogen, Inc. (NASDAQ: NGEN ). The licensing deal will ...

The PLSG Invests $115,000 in Innovention Technologies, LLC

... whose goal is to develop and commercialize a highly-maneuverable surgical probe that will alleviate the existing limitations of endoscopic devices used in ... path. Innoventions' first product is a highly-articulated robotic probe (HARP) with feeder (the "HARP Product"). The HARP Product is highly ...

China Medical Technologies Reports First Quarter Financial Results

... of our IVD businesses including our ECLIA reagent business and our FISH probe business. We have successfully launched our FISH products and received ... sales which generated lower gross margin. The Company expects future FISH probe sales will generate recurring revenue and higher gross margin. The sales ...

Vital Images Releases Next Generation Enterprise-Wide Solutions Featuring Vitrea(R) 4.0 and ViTALConnect(R) 4.1

... improved colon enhancements such as fly-through capabilities, polyp probe and automatic registration of prone and supine, among other significant ... needs through various software options for cardiac, colon, vessel probe and other applications. In addition, Vitrea software utilizes an intuitive ...

Video shows nanotube spins as it grows

... on the tip of the FEM's needle-like probe, and carbon nanotubes grew atop the metal catalyst. An electric current was passed lengthwise through the probe and nanotube, and it projected a bright, top-down image of the nanotube onto a phosphor screen. The bright spot was filmed by a video camera, which ...

Burnham Institute for Medical Research and Magellan BioScience Group, Inc. Announce Drug Discovery Collaboration

... screening resource resides within the Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics and is one of four NIH sponsored comprehensive screening and probe development centers in the United States. The fully-integrated automated system combines robotic screening with high-content image analysis, ...

febit First to Offer Newly Published Mouse Genome on a Chip for DNA/RNA Detection and Enrichment

... digital genetic sequence information directly into a fully-applicable microarray and sequence capture biochip. The microfluidic biochips and flexible probe synthesis guarantee instant access to the latest sequence updates within only days after publication or request. New mouse genome assembly ...

Genedata Launches Expressionist with Expanded Mass Spectrometry Biomarker Discovery Capabilities

... continued investment in Expressionist is invaluable and the new Expressionist system will drastically change the ways in which we are able to probe experimental systems," commented Professor James Mobley, director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Proteomics Facility at the University of ...

Waters Introduces New SYNAPT G2 with Greater Power, Versatility and Speed Than Any Other High-End Mass Spectrometer

... sources including: electrospray (ESI), nanoflow ESI, atmospheric chemical ionization (APCi), combined ESI/APCi (ESCi), atmospheric solids analysis probe (ASAP), and atmospheric pressure gas chromatography (APGC). The same ion source options are also compatible with the Waters Xevo(TM) TQ and Xevo QTof ...

A New Era in the Application of Lab-on-a-Chip to Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnosis

... on a single chip. The key differentiator of this technology is the use of a dielectric material for both electric field generation and capture probe DNA immobilization, thus avoiding adverse electrochemical effects that can lead to reduced sensitivity and accuracy of detection. The EFADchip is ...

Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow

... have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations, study how those molecules respond to light, observe how the molecules change shapes, and understand other ...

American Geographical Society awards honor Henson, Smith on April 15 at UD

... in the Martian arctic on May 25, 2008, to search the soil of the Red Planet for the building blocks of life. During five months of operations, the probe confirmed the presence of frozen water just below the planet's surface, found minerals that form in liquid water, identified potential nutrients in ...