Agriculture is North Carolina’s oldest and still its largest industry, and it could get even bigger with the help of one of the state’s newer industries — biotechnology.The North Carolina Biotechnology Center is spearheading an effort to grow the state’s agricultural industry from about $70 billion now to $100 billion by 2020 by linking traditional [...]

Nanotechnology company Novan has raised $6 million in financing as the startup continues development of its nitric oxide technology into a bacteria-fighting tool.Securities filings show that Durham, North Carolina-based Novan’s latest round was a mix of equity and options. Investors include Neal Hunter, co-founder of Durham LED lighting technology company Cree (NASDAQ:CREE). Cree executive John [...]

Nanoparticle exposure research is getting a boost from a North Carolina Biotechnology Center grant.The Biotech Center has awarded East Carolina University toxicologist Jared Brown $143,308 to study the hazards from inhaling nanomaterials during their manufacture or use.Brown, an assistant professor in ECU’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Brody School of Medicine, focuses his [...]

Nanotechnology might not be immediately evident in a small, isolated village in India, but Steve Walsh says such a place offers an important example of what drives nanobiomedical innovation.Residents there don’t have access to major testing labs, nor do they have the financial means for expensive care. But they can now take advantage of the [...]

The nanotechnology industry mapped out across the United States is full of bubbles — the good kind.“Nano-metros” identified and mapped by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, or PEN, depicts the nation’s nanotechnology hubs as bubbles. The larger the industry in a given region, the larger the bubble on the map.Silicon Valley, Boston and Houston are [...]

The Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology, the nonprofit North Carolina nanobiotechnology group better known as COIN, has named a nanotechnology industry veteran as its new executive director.Griffith Kundahl comes to Durham, North Carolina-based COIN from the University of Denver School of Engineering and Computer Science where he worked as director of global programs. His experience [...]

North Carolina State University is providing up to $300,000 in seed money to four emerging technologies from the university that are now steering toward commercialization.Two of the projects receiving up to $75,000 each from the university’s Innovation Fund have healthcare applications. One focuses on a new vaccine to prevent Salmonella and the other is employing [...]

Nanofibers are still finding their place in medicine. But Miles Wright readily counts the areas where his company’s technology could improve healthcare. Surgery. Wound care. Regenerative medicine.And that’s just the start.Raleigh, North Carolina startup Xanofi has not developed nanofibers for any of these applications. Wright, Xanofi’s CEO, has no plans to. What the company has [...]

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration took its first step into the uncertain world of nanotechnology regulation by releasing draft guidance on how regulatory bodies should handle the tiny tech.Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating materials at the atomic or molecular level, at scales around 80 times tinier than the diameter [...]

Nanomedicine offers the promise of new drugs with targeted delivery and fewer side effects, but the companies developing such medicines encounter this challenge: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has no official definition of nanotechnology.In fact, much of the guidance that could help nanomedicine companies remains unwritten so far. All of the products that contain [...]