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Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve

Nov 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT's Robert Langer for gene therapy, the insertion ...

Two-In-One Punch Knocks Out Drug Resistant Cancer Cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy, leading to relapse of disease. One approach showing promise in overcoming multidrug resistance in tumors is to combine two different anticancer ...

Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 31, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (17) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self-repeating building blocks -- atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life ...

Nano-Scale Drug Delivery For Chemotherapy

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 31, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (12) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Going smaller could bring better results, especially when it comes to cancer-fighting drugs.

Gold Nanoparticles Delivery Platinum Warheads to Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 29, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness. Now, however, researchers have ...

Researchers create nanoparticle coating to prevent freezing rain buildup (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Materials Science

Oct 29, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Preventing the havoc wrought when freezing rain collects on roads, power lines, and aircrafts could be only a few nanometers away. A University of Pittsburgh-led team demonstrates in the Nov. 3 edition of ...

INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

Oct 27, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 5

Most schoolchildren learn that everything in the universe is a solid, a liquid or a gas. But those lessons miss the fourth and by far most common state of matter: plasma.

Researchers find new route to nano self-assembly

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 22, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers ...

INL, ISU team on nanoparticle production breakthrough

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (14) | 1

Every hour, the sun floods Earth with more energy than the entire world consumes in a year. Yet solar power accounts for less than 0.002 percent of all electricity generated in the United States, primarily ...

Detecting the undetectable in prostate cancer screening

Medicine & Health / Cancer

Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

A team of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely sensitive tool based on nanotechnology, has detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in patients who have undergone radical ...

Nanosatellites expected to benefit from advanced propulsion technology

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 19, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (12) | 3

A University of Michigan professor is developing an electric rocket thruster, NanoFET, that uses nanoparticle electric propulsion and enables spacecraft to travel faster and with less propellant than previous ...

Running electronics using light

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Oct 19, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (19) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you open up almost any electronic gadget, you will see various elements that operating using electric circuitries," Nader Engheta tells PhysOrg.com. "Many of them have different functi ...

DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and ...

Magnetic nanotags spot cancer in mice earlier than methods now in clinical use

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (8) | 0

Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University ...