June 2011 has seen the total number of peer-reviewed user publications and citations reach 250. This number has been rising rapidly with the most recent 150 papers appearing in less than a year. Starting with this issue of NanoTrail, we will be highlighting three papers and providing links to where you may view them in [...]
Category Archives: General
In the News – NanoSight in the USA
October 4, 2011 – 2:27 pm
In an article written by Dr K John Morrow and published in the leading US publication, Genetic Engineeringand Biotechnology News, NanoSight user, Alla Polozova, a senior scientist in analytical biochemistry at MedImmune talks about her work. Delineating Protein Particles Contending with various forms of junk that arise during protein purification requires a number of different [...]
The University of St Andrews uses NanoSight NTA system for exosomes characterization
October 3, 2011 – 1:30 pm
We are pleased to report that the School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews is using nanoparticle tracking analysis to characterize exosome behaviour Dr Simon Powis and his colleagues at the University of St Andrews are working to understand how a set of molecules involved in the immune system’s defence against intracellular pathogens [...]
Landmark publication reports potential of exosomes as biomarkers for early disease detection using NTA technology
September 30, 2011 – 11:52 am
We are happy to report the publication in one of the most cited peer reviewed journals in nanoscience and nanotechnology, NanoMedicine. It has been written by a group of researchers from the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Oxford University. The rapidly growing field of exosomes and microvesicles is published online. Titled “Sizing and phenotyping [...]
Genuinely Disruptive Technology? How is it judged?
September 29, 2011 – 11:32 am
“Disruptive” is the description that technology watchers apply to the “new” whose benefits are great enough for users to reject current products or techniques and adopt that “new”. “Disruptive” has become a watchword for technology success. Looking back at the development of Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, what started as an “interesting image” in 2005 has grown [...]