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Hybrid Nanoparticles Image and Treat Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining a magnetic nanoparticle, a fluorescent quantum dot, and an anticancer drug within a lipid-based nanoparticle, a multi-institutional research team headed by members of the National Cancer Institute’s ...





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Quantum dot research could lead to medical advances

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working with atomic-scale particles known as quantum dots, a Missouri University of Science and Technology biologist hopes to develop a new and better way to deliver and monitor proteins, medicine, DNA and ...


Tiny particles make LED light more pleasing (AP)

Tiny particles make LED light more pleasing

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(AP) -- Light-emitting diodes are prime candidates for replacing inefficient incandescent bulbs, but have a few things working against them. They can provide a pleasing warm light or they can be energy-efficient, ...


New paper offers insights into 'blinking' phenomena

New paper offers insights into 'blinking' phenomena

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 0

A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsár Jankó provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics.


Fluorescent organic nanoparticles help illuminate cellular proteins

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 07, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Like a smart highlighter, immunofluorescent labeling can zero in on a specific protein, helping scientists understand the structure of a cell and how diseases affect that structure. Current techniques have disadvantages, ...


Monitoring Cancer Cell Changes With Quantum Dots

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One of the earliest events that changes a normal cell into a malignant one is known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) hypermethylation, a biochemical alteration that inactivates critical tumor-suppressor genes. A team of investigators ...


Fluorescent nanoparticles serve as flashlights in living cells

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created May 10, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have successfully exploited the optical properties of fluorescent nanoparticles to broaden the scope of single-cell microscopy. By using nanoparticles, they succeeded ...


Idemitsu, Sony Achieve World's Highest Level Of Luminous Efficiency For Blue Fluorescent

Technology / Engineering

created May 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Idemitsu Kosan and Sony today announced the achievement of 28.5% internal quantum efficiency (IQE) in deep blue fluorescent OLED devices, the world's highest level of luminous efficiency for this technology.


Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 0 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists ...


JILA Solves Problem of Quantum Dot 'Blinking'

Scientists Solve Problem of Quantum Dot 'Blinking'

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (30) | comments 4

Quantum dots—tiny, intense, tunable sources of colorful light—are illuminating new opportunities in biomedical research, cryptography and other fields. But these semiconductor nanocrystals also have a secret ...


All-in-1 nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine

All-in-one nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses - imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University ...



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