Search results for nanodiamonds
Nanodiamonds Advance Anticancer Gene Therapy
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene therapy holds promise in the treatment of cancer as well as a large number of other diseases. However, developing a scalable system for delivering genes to cells both efficiently and safely has been ...
Promise of nanodiamonds for safer gene therapy
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Gene therapy holds promise in the treatment of a myriad of diseases, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes, among many others. However, developing a scalable system for delivering genes to cells both efficiently and ...
Nanodiamonds deliver insulin for wound healing
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacterial infection is a major health threat to patients with severe burns and other kinds of serious wounds such as traumatic bone fractures. Recent studies have identified an important new weapon for fighting ...
Nanoscale 'Fountain Pen' Draws Therapeutic Nanodiamonds
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
New tool for next-generation cancer treatments using nanodiamonds
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 18, 2009 |
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A research team at Northwestern University has demonstrated a tool that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells.
Asteroid Impact Helps Trace Meteorite Origins
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The car-sized asteroid that exploded above the Nubian Desert last October was small compared to the dinosaur-killing, civilization-ending objects that still orbit the sun. But that didn't ...
Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...
Charcoal evidence tracks climate changes in Younger Dryas
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2009 |
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A new study reports that charcoal particles left by wildfires in sediments of 35 North American lake beds don't readily support the theory that comets exploding over the continent 12,900 years ago sparked ...
Scientists say comet killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 02, 2009 |
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First an explosion as powerful as thousands of megatons of TNT rained meteorites down on North America. Then forest fires broke out across the continent, sending up a thick layer of soot and dust that blocked ...
Six North American sites hold 12,900-year-old nanodiamond-rich soil
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 01, 2009 |
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Abundant tiny particles of diamond dust exist in sediments dating to 12,900 years ago at six North American sites, adding strong evidence for Earth's impact with a rare swarm of carbon-and-water-rich comets or carbonaceous ...
Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 27, 2008 |
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A team of investigators at Northwestern University has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically ...
Nanodiamond drug device could transform cancer treatment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 02, 2008 |
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A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically ...
New Research on Nanodiamond Materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 09, 2008 |
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In a recent special issue of Chemical Vapor Deposition devoted to nanodiamonds, editors Amanda Barnard and Oliver Williams note that "the diversity of nanocarbon structures and allotropes has led to a plet ...
Spitzer's Eyes Perfect for Spotting Diamonds in the Sky
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Diamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and the super-sensitive infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are perfect for scouting them, say scientists at the NASA Ames Research ...
Mining Tiny Diamonds for Drug Delivery
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds are effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs to cells without the negative effects associated with current drug delivery agents. Their study, published in ...
