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Enzymes That Make Cancers Dangerous Guide Nanoparticles to Release Drugs

Scientists have designed nanoparticles that release drugs in the presence of a class of proteins that enable cancers to metastasize. That is, they have engineered a drug delivery system so that the very enzymes that make cancers dangerous could instead guide their destruction.

15 Jul 2015

Hydrogel Coated Nanoshells Loaded with Chemotherapeutic Drugs are More Deadly to Tumors

In a move akin to adding chemical weapons to a firebomb, researchers at Duke University have devised a method for making a promising nanoscale cancer treatment even more deadly to tumors.

14 Jul 2015

Discovery of 'Mesh' Cell Structure Could Help Understand Development of Cancer

University of Warwick researchers have discovered a cell structure which could help scientists understand why some cancers develop.

13 Jul 2015

University of Guelph Receives NSERC Grant to Evaluate New Nano Delivery Vehicles

EastGate Biotech Corp., an emerging pharmaceutical company aimed at utilizing drug delivery innovations in the development of improved novel formulations and alternative dosage forms of existing biologically active molecules, has announced that its research collaborator, the University of Guelph, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology received a grant from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

10 Jul 2015

Reciprocal Linking Implemented Between ScienceDirect Research Articles and caNanoLab Datasets

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), a world-leading institute for cancer research, today announced that they have implemented two-way linking between research articles on ScienceDirect and datasets stored in NCI's cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory (caNanoLab) data portal. The NCI is part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

10 Jul 2015

Sorrento and NantBioScience Enter JV to Develop Innovative Small Molecules for Cancer Treatment

Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. and NantBioScience, Inc., a majority owned subsidiary of NantWorks, LLC, announced today that they have established a joint venture to focus on the development of 'first-in-class' small molecules against targets that have eluded the pharmaceutical industry to date and which may address important drivers of cancer growth including cancer stem cells.

10 Jul 2015

Peppermint Oil and Cinnamon Compound Packed into Nanoparticles can Kill Biofilms, Promote Healing

Infectious colonies of bacteria called biofilms that develop on chronic wounds and medical devices can cause serious health problems and are tough to treat. But now scientists have found a way to package antimicrobial compounds from peppermint and cinnamon in tiny capsules that can both kill biofilms and actively promote healing. The researchers say the new material, reported in the journal ACS Nano, could be used as a topical antibacterial treatment and disinfectant.

From American Chemical Society 9 Jul 2015

Nanobiotechnology Experts Find New Mechanism that Targets Complexes Critical to Function of Viruses, Cancer

A new study led by University of Kentucky researchers suggests a new approach to develop highly-potent drugs which could overcome current shortcomings of low drug efficacy and multi-drug resistance in the treatment of cancer as well as viral and bacterial infections.

9 Jul 2015

Magnetic Nanoparticles Increase Body Temperature to Combat Cancer

Hyperthermia (increase in body temperature) has been used for centuries to combat tumours and reduce their effects. The aim of the research by the physicist Eneko Garaio is hyperthermia but using a different system (magnetic nanoparticles) to increase body temperature.

8 Jul 2015

Nanobiosym Chairman and CEO Awarded Top Prize in Galactic Grant Competition

Nanobiosym? a global nanotechnology firm, today announced that its Chairman and CEO, Dr. Anita Goel, M.D., Ph.D, has been awarded the top prize in the Galactic Grant Competition to fund the Nanobiosym Research Institute to push the frontier of nanobiophysics and the Gene-RADAR?technology on the International Space Station (ISS), U.S. National Laboratory.

From Nanobiosym 8 Jul 2015

Nanomedicine News

Enzymes That Make Cancers Dangerous Guide Nanoparticles to Release Drugs

Hydrogel Coated Nanoshells Loaded with Chemotherapeutic Drugs are More Deadly to Tumors

Discovery of 'Mesh' Cell Structure Could Help Understand Development of Cancer

University of Guelph Receives NSERC Grant to Evaluate New Nano Delivery Vehicles

Reciprocal Linking Implemented Between ScienceDirect Research Articles and caNanoLab Datasets

Sorrento and NantBioScience Enter JV to Develop Innovative Small Molecules for Cancer Treatment

Peppermint Oil and Cinnamon Compound Packed into Nanoparticles can Kill Biofilms, Promote Healing

Nanobiotechnology Experts Find New Mechanism that Targets Complexes Critical to Function of Viruses, Cancer

Magnetic Nanoparticles Increase Body Temperature to Combat Cancer

Nanobiosym Chairman and CEO Awarded Top Prize in Galactic Grant Competition

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Sustainable ZnO Nanoparticles for Methylene Blue Cleanup

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