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Carbon Nanotubes Continue To Show Promise in Battle Against Cancer

Jun 30, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Carbon nanotubes, one of the original engineered nanomaterials, also may prove to be among the most versatile, as numerous teams of investigators continue to develop novel nanotube-based therapeutic and diagnostic tools. ...

Nanoscale 'Fountain Pen' Draws Therapeutic Nanodiamonds

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 29, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

A research team at Northwestern University has developed a tool that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells. The tool, called the nanofountain probe, functions in two different ...

Computer-Guided Nanoparticle Therapy Destroys Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 29, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (12) | 0

Gold nanoshells are among the most promising new nanoscale therapeutics being developed to kill tumors, acting as antennas that turn light energy into heat that cooks cancer to death. Now, a multi-institutional research team ...

Can a new implant coating technique create a new six million dollar man?

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 29, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

Tel Aviv University researcher Prof. Noam Eliaz of the TAU School of Mechanical Engineering has developed an electrochemical process for coating metal implants which vastly improves their functionality, longevity ...

Australian researchers are set to begin human trials of a tiny nano-cell that acts as a "Trojan horse" against cancer

Hi-tech 'Trojan horse' can kill cancer cells: researchers

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 29, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (12) | 7

Australian researchers are set to begin human trials of a tiny nano-cell that acts as a "Trojan horse" against cancer cells, a breakthrough they say may curb the need for debilitating chemotherapy.

Singapore nanotechnology combats fatal brain infections

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

Doctors may get a new arsenal for meningitis treatment and the war on drug-resistant bacteria and fungal infections with novel peptide nanoparticles developed by scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology ...

Making nanoparticles in artificial cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Two new construction manuals are now available for the world's smallest lamps. Based on these protocols, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have tailor-made nanoparticles that ...

Implant bacteria, beware: Researchers create nano-sized assassins

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 26, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (8) | 0

Staphylococcus epidermidis is quite an opportunist. Commonly found on human skin, the bacteria pose little danger. But S. epidermidis is a leading cause of infections in hospitals. From catheters to prosthetic ...

Tiny capsules can deliver drugs to targeted cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 25, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is now possible to engineer tiny containers the size of a virus to deliver drugs and other materials with almost 100 percent efficiency to targeted cells in the bloodstream.

New nanoparticles could revolutionize therapeutic drug discovery

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 25, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

A revolutionary new protein stabilisation technique has been developed by scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council which could lead to 30 per cent more proteins being available as potential ...

A promising niche for nanotech

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 24, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

In a cluster of rather drab buildings overlooking the Charles River, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are incubating a tiny technology that packs an enormous punch.

Scientists and public differ on views about nanotechnology regulation

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 19, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to regulating nanotechnology - a burgeoning global industry with wide-ranging potential applications - a new study led by professors Dietram Scheufele at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Nonstick and laser-safe gold aids laser trapping of biomolecules

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Biophysicists long for an ideal material -- something more structured and less sticky than a standard glass surface—to anchor and position individual biomolecules. Gold is an alluring possibility, with its ...

Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within ...

Nanoparticles could someday lead to end of chemotherapy

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (8) | 0

Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.