Search results for journal of controlled release:
Gold nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 30, 2008 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion.
Genome-wide association studies in developing countries raise important new ethical issues
Nov 24, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Typically conducted in richer, developed countries but now increasingly done in the developing world, genome wide association (GWA) studies raise a host of ethical issues that must be addressed, argues a Policy Forum article ...
Researchers find a key mechanism in the development of nerve cells
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 29, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Chaos brews in the brains of newborns: the nerve cells are still bound only loosely to each other. Under the leadership of Academy Research Fellow Sari Lauri, a team of researchers at the University of Helsinki has been studying ...
Findings could speed the development of drugs for Parkinson's disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 18, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Australian scientists have significantly advanced our understanding of dopamine release from nerve cells, findings that should speed the development of more effective drugs for treating Parkinson's Disease.
Chasing tiny vehicles -- Microscope shows how nanoferries invade cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 20, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
In future therapies, synthetic nanoparticles may well be able to ferry medicines and even genes to targets inside the body. These nanovehicles can now be directly tested and optimized using a highly sensitive microscopic ...
Research shows how a stroke affects hand function
Jun 15, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (2) |
0
BETHESDA, Md. (June 15, 2009) A person whose hand function has been affected by a stroke can release an object more quickly when the affected arm is supported on a platform, but the support does not make it easier to grip ...
In blood vessel stents, innovative materials allow better control, delivery of gene therapy
Apr 15, 2008 |
not rated yet |
0
Before gene therapy becomes practical for treating human diseases, researchers must master the details of safe and effective delivery. Cardiology researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have advanced delivery ...
Larvae shun the light
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 22, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Drosophila larvae avoid light during the foraging stage of their development. Research published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience shows that both 5-HT (serotonergic) and corazonergic neurons have a role in reg ...
Electric Jolt Triggers Release of Biomolecules, Nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 11, 2006 |
3.8 / 5 (9) |
0
Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a way to use a brief burst of electricity to release biomolecules and nanoparticles from a tiny gold launch pad. The technique could someday be used to dispense small amounts of medicine ...
Scientists develop nanogels that enable controlled delivery of carbohydrate drugs
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 20, 2007 |
3.5 / 5 (4) |
0
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have developed tiny, spherical nanogels that uniformly release encapsulated carbohydrate-based drugs. The scientists created the nanogels using atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), ...
Wrinkled membranes create novel drug-delivery system
Feb 13, 2006 |
3.8 / 5 (6) |
0
A University of Illinois scientist studying how membranes wrinkle has discovered a novel system for on-demand drug delivery.
Magnetism Turns Drug Release On and Off
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 30, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Many medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes and chronic pain, require medications that cannot be taken orally, but must be dosed intermittently, on an as-needed basis, over a long period of time. A few delivery techniques ...
Researchers develop drug delivery system using nanoparticles and lasers
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 10, 2009 |
not rated yet |
1
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser. Their results are published in a recent article in ACS Nano, a jour ...
Rounding up gases, nano-style
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 01, 2008 |
4.8 / 5 (26) |
0
A new process for catching gas from the environment and holding it indefinitely in molecular-sized containers has been developed by a team of University of Calgary researchers, who say it represents a novel method of gas ...
New technology shows promise against resistant staph infections
Apr 30, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have combined their revolutionary new drug-delivery system with a powerful antimicrobial agent to treat potentially deadly drug-resistant staph infections ...
