News tagged with delivery


Using magnetism to turn drugs on and off

Using magnetism to turn drugs on and off

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many medical conditions, such as chronic pain, cancer and diabetes, require medications that cannot be taken orally, but must be dosed intermittently, on an as-needed basis, over a long period ...


When nano may not be nano

When Nano May Not Be Nano

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The same properties of nanoparticles that make them so appealing to manufacturers may also have negative effects on the environment and human health. However, little is known which particles ...


Researchers develop drug delivery system using nanoparticles and lasers

Researchers develop drug delivery system using nanoparticles and lasers

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 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 ...


Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could ...


Cell discovery opens new chapter in drug development

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists have uncovered new details about how the cells in our bodies communicate with each other and their environment: findings that are of fundamental importance to human biology.


Promise of nanodiamonds for safer gene therapy

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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 ...


New Cancer Drug Delivery System Is Effective and Reversible

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For cancer drug developers, finding an agent that kills tumor cells is only part of the equation. The drug also must spare healthy cells, and ideally its effects will be reversible to cut short any potentially dangerous side ...


UCSB scientists discover potential drug delivery system

Scientists discover potential new drug delivery system

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a potential new drug delivery system. The finding is a biological mechanism for delivery of nanoparticles into tissue. The results are published ...


Free radio stations and podcasts sans computer

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Television and radio broadcasts used to be free. Stick an antenna in the air and that's still true even though much of it has now gone digital. As technology advanced, we got better delivery methods of those free signals ...


New cancer drug delivery system is effective and reversible

New cancer drug delivery system is effective and reversible

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For cancer drug developers, finding an agent that kills tumor cells is only part of the equation. The drug must also spare healthy cells, and - ideally - its effects will be reversible, to cut short any potentially ...


Researchers identify how stressed fat tissue malfunctions

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, in a collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leipzig, Germany, have identified a signaling pathway that is operational in intra-abdominal fat, the fat depot ...


Nanoscale 'Fountain Pen' Draws Therapeutic Nanodiamonds

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


Genetic changes after Caesarean section may explain increased risk of developing disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that babies born by planned Caesarean section experience changes to the DNA pool in their white blood cells, which could be connected to altered stress ...


ICSI or IVF: Babies born from frozen embryos do just as well

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Analysis of the longest running ICSI programme in the United States has found reassuring evidence that babies born from frozen embryos fertilised via ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) do just as well as those born from ...


Complications early in pregnancy or in previous pregnancies adversely affect existing or subsequent pregnancies

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Complications in early pregnancy or in previous pregnancies can predict the likelihood of further problems in current or subsequent pregnancies, according to research carried out by an international group of experts.