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Nano-Scale Drug Delivery For Chemotherapy

Nano-Scale Drug Delivery For Chemotherapy

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

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


Special Nanotubes May Be Used as a Vehicle for Treating Neurodegenerative Disorders

Special Nanotubes May Be Used as a Vehicle for Treating Neurodegenerative Disorders

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have demonstrated that magnetic nanotubes combined with nerve growth factor can enable specific cells to differentiate into ...





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NREL Evaluates UPS Hybrid-Electric Van Performance

Technology / Energy

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has collected and analyzed fuel economy, maintenance and other vehicle performance data from UPS’s first generation hybrid diesel ...


Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team unveils its new set of wheels

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Penn State engineering students recently took delivery of a 2009 Saturn Vue that will be used in an advanced vehicle technology engineering contest sponsored by the Department of Energy and General ...


Computer solution to delivery problem

Technology / Other

created Oct 18, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

With the gift-giving season almost upon us and increasing concerns about the environmental effects of all those deliveries and pickups, it is timely that researchers should turn their attention to the so-called Traveling ...


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Ford to launch electric van in the US next year

Technology / Energy

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ford's first all-electric vehicle in the US will be a commercial van that gets a range of 100 miles per charge with a top speed of 70 mph. The van, called the Ford Transit Connect, should ...


Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows tracking

Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows tracking

Chemistry / Polymers

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Theresa M. Reineke, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science, and colleagues in her lab at Virginia Tech and at the University of Cincinnati have developed a new molecule that can travel ...


Software eases flow to fluid power trucks

Technology / Software

created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Eaton Corporation is using IBM modeling software to develop series hydraulic hybrid systems. Replacing a vehicle’s conventional drive train and transmission, the series hydraulic hybrid (SHH) system promises dramatic fuel ...


Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on supply mission (AP)

Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on supply mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in ...


Magnetic Nanoworms and Nanocrystals Deliver siRNA to Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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 ...


The International Space Station, a test-bed for future space exploration

The International Space Station, a test-bed for future space exploration

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

The Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met today at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France, to review ISS cooperation.


Good Bacteria Can Be 'EZ Pass' for Oral Vaccine Against Anthrax

Good Bacteria Can Be 'EZ Pass' for Oral Vaccine Against Anthrax

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that the good bacteria found in dairy products and linked to positive health benefits in the human body might also be an effective ...



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