Press Articles
Fuel saving for transport
The Guardian, Investing In Emerging Technologies - 14th April 2008
With high oil prices and pressures to go "green", transport managers have a headache. Their customers are demanding a lower carbon footprint and reduced emissions, and most solutions to achieve this further increase costs at a time when the industy is already facing escalating fuel costs.
SERS as a Foundation for Nanoscale, Optically Detected Biological Labels
Advanced Materials - 1st October 2007
SERS as a Foundation for Nanoscale, Optically Detected Biological Labels. By William E. Doering, Marcelo E. Piotti, Michael J. Natan, and R. Griffith Freeman.
To read this progress report published by Advanced Materials visit http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.
Selling biotech involves tricky marketing calculus
San Francisco Business Times - 31st August 2007
Marketing a drug or diagnostic test is a bit of a riddle. The one who uses the product needn't choose it;
the one who pays for it doesn't need it; the one who makes it must convince not just patients of the
product's merit, but also clinicians, distributors, government regulators, investors and health plan
providers.
Oxonica's bid to reshape POC diagnostics
Biomarker Breakthroughs - 21st August 2007
Michael Natan has spent years souping up an established technology he says could now revolutionize the point-of-care (POC) testing world. "POC is laden with 100-year old technologies," Natan explains. "There’s nothing really new that’s even close to market."
Ceramic nanoparticles give greener diesel
The Times - 26th June 2007
One of the more simple ideas behind nanotechnology is that if you can get fuel to burn at a higher temperature, less polluting particles will be emitted in the exhust and carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced.