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Nanoparticles delivery of "Suicide DNA" kills prostate tumors
Using nanoparticles, a team of scientists has developed a DNA-based therapeutic agent that has the potential to treat both enlarged prostates and localized prostate tumors.
Posted: May 22nd, 2007
Read moreAnalyzing nanoparticle levels in blood
A small but growing group of researchers is quietly developing the methods that are needed to fully characterize a wide variety of nanoscale materials and then detect and quantify their presence in blood and other human tissues.
Posted: May 22nd, 2007
Read moreEU project develops intelligent textiles to measure people's health
Integrating bio-chemical sensors into textiles for continuous monitoring of a person's health is the goal of the EU-funded BIOTEX (Bio-sensing textile for health management) project.
Posted: May 22nd, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology and the environment: beauty rather than beast?
Scientists working in the comparatively unknown field of environmental nanotechnology argue that working at the nanoscale does not have to be to the detriment of the environment.
Posted: May 22nd, 2007
Read moreSecure public spaces via nanotechnology sensors
A new European project is set to improve security for travellers using European airports and other large public spaces.
Posted: May 22nd, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology exhibition in Paris
A topical nanotechnology exposition in Paris until Sept. 2.
Posted: May 21st, 2007
Read moreMolecular doctors: implantable biocomputers
Molecular devices' remarkably precise scans of cellular activity could revolutionize medicine.
Posted: May 21st, 2007
Read moreThe nanostructure problem
The powerful tools of crystallography, which are currently used to map out the atomic-scale structure of bulk materials, fail on the nanoscale, precisely the domain where nanotechnologists need to characterize and control structure.
Posted: May 21st, 2007
Read moreDrug eluting nanostructured coatings enable targeted drug therapy for orthopedic patients
Nanotechnology promises yet another advance by delivering therapeutic agents at desired rates exactly where needed in the body.
Posted: May 20th, 2007
Read moreNanocomposite labeled cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed using lasers
By combining an organic matrix with metallic clusters that can absorb light, it is possible to incorporate such particles into cells and then destroy those targeted cells with a laser.
Posted: May 20th, 2007
Read moreRegenerating nerve cells with nanotechnology
The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way.
Posted: May 20th, 2007
Read moreTargeted nanoparticles incorporating siRNA offer promise for cancer treatment
Researchers have been using small interfering RNA (siRNA), sometimes known as silencing RNA, to "silence" specific genes that are implicated in certain malignancies.
Posted: May 20th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology water desalination for Australia
The delivery of energy efficient desalination in Australia received a boost with the establishment of a major new research collaboration between CSIRO and nine of Australia's leading universities.
Posted: May 19th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology supercomputing center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offered the first glimpse of what is planned to be the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center.
Posted: May 19th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology pasta: Toward nanoscale electronics
Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic properties than their non-spiraling cousins.
Posted: May 18th, 2007
Read moreTunable photonics with high refractive index
Scientists in Hong Kong have created a polymer with a refractive index that can be tuned as high as 1.81
Posted: May 18th, 2007
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