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Project to Study Hazardous Effects of Nanomaterials on Immune System

Researchers from Sweden, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States have been awarded € 3.358.500 from the European Commission to study the hazardous effects of engineered nanomaterials on t...

10 Jan 2009

Nanotechnology - New Weapon to Fight Cholesterol Problems

Buttery Christmas cookies, eggnog, juicy beef roast, rich gravy and creamy New York-style cheesecake. Happy holiday food unfortunately can send blood cholesterol levels sky high. Northwestern University scientists now...

9 Jan 2009

Discovery May Aid Development of Pharmaceuticals

The nuclei of ordinary hydrogen atoms contain only a single proton. If a neutron is added, the hydrogen becomes deuterium. In principle, molecules that contain deuterium in place of hydrogen atoms are chemically identical. However, there can be significant differences.

8 Jan 2009

VeruTEK Technologies Completes In-Place Remediation at Site Contaminated with Chlorinated Solvents

VeruTEK Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:VTKT), an international environmental technologies company, announced today that it has successfully completed an in-place remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater at a legacy si...

8 Jan 2009

New Product to Measure MicroRNA

HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA™) system and service partner for the life sciences industry, today announced the availability of a customizable qNPA™ ArrayPlate to meas...

5 Jan 2009

Standard Researchers Develop New Nanoscale Cancer Detection System for the Human Body

Using the same type of nanotechnology that enables hard drives to read and write data, researchers at Stanford University have developed a system that should be able to detect cancer in the human body. The blood scanner,...

23 Dec 2008

New Generation of Nanoparticles for Molecular Imaging and Tumor Targeting Treatments

Researchers have developed a new generation of microscopic particles for molecular imaging, constituting one of the first promising nanoparticle platforms that may be readily adapted for tumor targeting and treatment in ...

23 Dec 2008

New Study Shows Cytotoxicity of Carbon Nanotubes

Owing to the novel properties of carbon nanotubes (CBNs), a series of problems associated with in vitro toxicity assessments of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have appeared in many literatures. In order to properly evaluate ...

22 Dec 2008

New Study Shows the Nanotoxicity of Nanoparticles

The ability of nanoparticles to cross the lung-blood barrier suggests that they may translocate to blood and to targets distant from their portal of entry. Nevertheless, nanotoxicity in organs has received little attenti...

21 Dec 2008

Nano-sized Zinc Oxide Produce Brilliant Light Best Suited to the Human Eye

Duke University and United States Army scientists have found that a cheap and nontoxic sunburn and diaper rash preventative can be made to produce brilliant light best suited to the human eye. Duke adjunct physics pro...

18 Dec 2008