MD-PhD student starts nanotechnology company
Lead product is surgical mesh made of nanofibers.
Jan 20th, 2012
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MM, MEMS and NANO Live UK 2012 - Call For Papers
Fresh from the success of the 2011 edition, Rapid News Communications Group is formally announcing the Call for Papers for MM, MEMS and NANO Live UK 2012.
Jan 20th, 2012
Read moreLab-on-a-chip teaching kit - a nanolab in the classroom
The fourth conference in the Twente Mastership series will be held at the University of Twente on Thursday 26 January. This conference is intended to build bridges between secondary and higher education. The theme of the conference is "from research to teaching concept".
Jan 20th, 2012
Read moreBuckyballs for next-generation spintronics devices
Buckyballs sandwiched between two magnetic materials have very little effect on electron spin. This enables them to store spin information for much longer periods of time than silicon.
Jan 20th, 2012
Read moreT-Rays technology could help develop Star Trek-style hand-held medical scanners
Scientists who have developed a new way to create a type of radiation known as Terahertz (THz) or T-rays say their new, stronger and more efficient continuous wave T-rays could be used to make better medical scanning gadgets and may one day lead to innovations similar to the "tricorder" scanner used in Star Trek.
Jan 20th, 2012
Read moreNew class of nanoparticles for more accurate delivery of cancer drugs
A new class of nanoparticles, synthesized by a UC Davis research team to prevent premature drug release, holds promise for greater accuracy and effectiveness in delivering cancer drugs to tumors.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read moreTeam discovers how protein in teardrops annihilates harmful bacteria (w/video)
Novel technology that reveals lysozymes have jaws could aid in early cancer diagnosis.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read moreGold nanorods could improve radiation therapy of head and neck cancer
To overcome a built-in mechanism that makes tumors resistant to radiation resistance, researchers have developed a nanoparticle formulation that interferes with the resistance mechanism, and as a result, increases the efficacy of radiation therapy in a mouse model of head and neck cancer.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read moreNovel strategy improves cancer cell uptake of nanoparticles
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a strategy for identifying what could be called tumor uptake molecules for use on nanoparticles. This new class of tumor-targeting agents boosts the amount of drug-loaded nanoparticles that get into cancer cells.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read moreOvercoming cancer drug resistance with nanoparticles
One of the ways in which cancer cells evade anticancer therapy is by producing a protein that pumps drugs out of the cell before these compounds can exert their cell-killing effects. A research team at Northwestern University has found that biocompatible iron oxide-titanium dioxide nanoparticles can bypass this pump and enable DNA-damaging anticancer drugs to reach the cell nucleus.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read morePRINTed nanoparticles deliver multiple punches to treat prostate cancer
Using technologies common to the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Liquidia Technologies has created a polymer nanoparticle that can encapsulate large loads of therapeutic molecules that may have use in treating prostate cancer.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read moreBiocompatible quantum dot images tumors in live animals
A collaborative effort between researchers at Stanford University and Xiamen University in China has produced a stable, biocompatible quantum dot that appears to have the desired set of properties needed for biomedical imaging.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read moreBismuth nanoparticles provide high fidelity images of breast tumors
By combining a nanoparticle that is readily visible in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans with a molecule that targets tumor lymph vessels and other tumor tissues, a research team from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute has developed a new imaging agent that provides high-fidelity CT images of tumors and their edges.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read moreHere comes the dragon - A nanotechnology Chinese New Year card
It is so small that it cannot be seen by the naked eye - but a tiny Chinese New Year greetings card created by the University of Glasgow represents the huge potential for China to profit from Scottish innovation.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read moreDesigning chemical catalysts: There's an app for that
Five scientists from the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford's Department of Chemical Engineering, have a solution for those who design new chemical catalysts: They made an app.
Jan 19th, 2012
Read moreNanoIsrael 2012: Top global researchers, achievements in science and business, and potential investors
NanoIsrael 2012 (held on March 26th-27th, 2012) to highlight alternative energy, nanomaterials, nanobio, nanomedicine and nanoelectronics.
Jan 19th, 2012
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