Researchers measure elusive repulsive force from quantum fluctuations

Exotic force could lead to a wide range of nanomechanical devices based on quantum levitation

09-Jan-2009 - Researchers from Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have measured, for the first time, a repulsive quantum mechanical force that could be harnessed and tailored for a wide range of new nanotechnology applications. The study, led by Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace ...

NIH collaborates with EPA to improve the safety testing of chemicals

New strategy aims to reduce reliance on animal testing

18-Feb-2008 - Testing the safety of chemicals ranging from pesticides to household cleaners will benefit from new technologies and a plan for collaboration, according to federal scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who announced a new ...

Sandia researchers to model nano-size battery

Power for artificial retina

16-Jan-2006 - Several researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, led by principal investigator Susan Rempe, are part of a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary team developing a nano-size battery that one day could be implanted in the eye to power an artificial retina. They are among the recipients of a ...

Acambis completes delivery of 500,000 doses of MVA3000 smallpox vaccine to US Government

06-Dec-2005 - Acambis plc announced that it has completed the delivery under contract terms of 500,000 doses of its investigational MVA attenuated smallpox vaccine, MVA3000, to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ("NIAID"), part of the US National Institutes of Health. The delivery ...

NIH awards $11.9 M to The Burnham Institute to establish the San Diego Chemical Screening Center

21-Jun-2005 - The Burnham Institute has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as one of nine national centers for high-throughput chemical compound screening, known collectively as "The Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network", that will comprise the world's largest collaborative ...