Linking targeting agents to nanoparticles just got easier
The task of linking targeting agents to nanoparticles just got easier thanks to work from the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
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Targeting nanoparticles to specific locations inside cancer cells increases kills
By increasing the amount of an anticancer agent that gets to tumor cells, as opposed to healthy cells, researchers hope to minimize the potential side effects of therapy while maximizing therapeutic response. This approach has been taken one step farther by targeting the specific location inside a tumor cell, where the drug ceramide exerts its cell-killing activity.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read moreNanocages 'cook' cancer cells
New research has quantified how many targeted nanocages bind to an individual cancer cell and how much light is needed to kill the cells.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read moreEffectiveness of nanotherapeutics impacted by shape, not just size
Researchers have demonstrated that nanoparticles designed with a specific shape, size, and surface chemistry are taken up into cells and behave differently within cells depending on these attributes.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read moreNanotechnology applications could benefit from DNA tubes with programmable sizes
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical - and precisely programmable - circumferences.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read moreEU-India cooperation to find new materials for applications in nanotechnology
A research team at Uppsala University will be leading a collaborative project between the EU and India in theoretical materials science. The objective is to find new materials for applications in nanotechnology.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read morePatent granted for continuous flow method for the separation of carbon nanotubes according to their chiralities
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent for a MITRE-developed process that provides a path to achieving what has been called the Holy Grail of nanotechnology. U.S. Patent number 7,347,981 was issued to MITRE earlier this year. It covers a continuous flow method for the separation of carbon nanotubes according to their chiralities, the characteristic twists in their molecular structures.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read moreFabrication of highest purity semiconductors key for nanoelectronic circuits
In order to realize the electrical units of voltage, resistance and current with highest accuracy quantum effects in nano-circuits are nowadays used. Important prerequisites are extremely pure semiconductor layers where high-mobile electrons move through the crystal without collision with residual impurities.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read moreNeue, energiesparende Werkstoffe mit Nanotechnologie
Im Bemuehen, den Verlust kostbarer Energie beim Transport zu den Verbrauchern zu verringern, bieten nanokristalline Werkstoffe viel versprechende Aussichten.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read moreThe secret of electron heating in low temperature plasmas discovered
The secret of electron heating in low temperature plasmas has been discovered by the Bochum researchers at the Center of Excellence 'Plasma Science and Technology' (CPST) at the Ruhr University - who have thereby found the answer to the question which has been puzzling scientists for decades of why particularly the electrons in such plasmas are so hot.
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read moreNanotomography produces incredible high-resolution 3-D images of nanostructures
X-rays from a synchrotron can produce incredible high-resolution three-dimensional images of nanoscale crystal structures .
Posted: Aug 29th, 2008
Read moreResearchers for the first time observe harmonious coexistence of magnetic and superconductive states
Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with colleagues at institutions in Switzerland and Canada, have observed, for the first time in a single exotic phase, a situation where magnetism and superconductivity are necessary for each other's existence.
Posted: Aug 28th, 2008
Read moreNew Chemical Bonding Center provides a new approach for using solar energy
The California Institute of Technology Chemical Bonding Center project, called 'Powering the Planet,' will increase the number of its collaborators to fulfill its goal of efficiently and economically converting solar energy and water into hydrogen and oxygen fuels.
Posted: Aug 28th, 2008
Read moreUniversity of Washington buys multimillion-dollar tool for nanotechnology research
The University of Washington will acquire an electron beam lithography machine, a key instrument required to build devices at the nanometer scale. A $1.3 million gift from the Washington Research Foundation provides about half the cost of the $2.5 million electron beam lithography machine, which will be the only one of its kind in the Northwest.
Posted: Aug 28th, 2008
Read moreUnique laser technology allows observation of what happens in live cells
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a unique technology that will allow scientists to look at microscopic activity within the body?s chemical messenger system for the very first time, live as it happens.
Posted: Aug 28th, 2008
Read moreTMS prepares for record-breaking annual meeting
The TMS 2009 Annual Meeting promises to be the largest in the materials society?s 138-year conference history.
Posted: Aug 28th, 2008
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