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Tumors feel the deadly sting of nanobees
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Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When bees sting, they pump poison into their victims. Now the toxin in bee venom has been harnessed to kill tumor cells by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers ...
Golden Nanotubes Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Nodes
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated ...
Toward a nanomedicine for brain cancer
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Sep 09, 2009 |
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In an advance toward better treatments for the most serious form of brain cancer, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of the first nanoparticles that seek out and destroy brain cancer cells without ...
Twinkling Nanostars Improve Optical Imaging of Tumors
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging. The nanostars gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and ...
Magnetic Nanoworms and Nanocrystals Deliver siRNA to Tumors
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Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Small pieces of nucleic acid known as short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, can turn off the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the more promising new classes of anticancer drugs ...
Nanotech researchers develop artificial pore
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using an RNA-powered nanomotor, University of Cincinnati (UC) biomedical engineering researchers have successfully developed an artificial pore able to transmit nanoscale material through ...
All-in-one nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine
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Jul 27, 2009 |
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Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses - imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University ...
Nanoparticles cross blood-brain barrier to enable 'brain tumor painting'
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Aug 03, 2009 |
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Brain cancer is among the deadliest of cancers. It's also one of the hardest to treat. Imaging results are often imprecise because brain cancers are extremely invasive. Surgeons must saw through the skull ...
Therapeutic nanoparticles give new meaning to sugar-coating medicine
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Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has uncovered a delicate balancing act that makes ...
Computer-Guided Nanoparticle Therapy Destroys Tumors
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
Scientists develop targeted cancer treatment using nanomaterials
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Aug 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic ...
Can a new implant coating technique create a new six million dollar man?
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
Carbon Nanotube-Coated Electrodes Improve Brain Readouts
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Aug 12, 2008 |
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A research group has significantly improved the quality of brain-function measurements by coating metal neural electrodes with carbon nanotubes. Their work could potentially allow scientists to learn more ...
Trojan horse for ovarian cancer -- nanoparticles turn immune system soldiers against tumor cells
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Jul 15, 2009 |
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In a feat of trickery, Dartmouth Medical School immunologists have devised a Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer, unleashing a surprise killer in the surroundings of a hard-to-treat tumor.
Targeted therapy from within
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Jul 28, 2009 |
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A group of researchers at Johns Hopkins University has designed nanoparticles that can carry cancer-treating radioisotopes through the body and deliver them selectively to tumors. Today in Anaheim, CA, they will report the ...
