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EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium to Feature BIND Therapeutics’ Presentation on Clinical Activity of BIND-014

BIND Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage nanomedicine platform company developing targeted and programmable therapeutics called AccurinsTM, announced today that a poster presentation including Phase 2 clinical data on its lead drug candidate, BIND-014, in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) will be presented at the upcoming 26th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics.

27 Aug 2014

Engineered Vault Nanoparticles Could Lead to More Effective Treatments for Cancer and HIV

Amultidisciplinary team of scientists from UCLA and Stanford University has used a naturally occurring nanoparticle called a vault to create a novel drug delivery system that could lead to advances in the treatment of cancer and HIV.

22 Aug 2014

Science Translational Medicine Publishes Positive Data on Tekmira's Lipid Nanoparticle Technology for Targeting Marburg Virus

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced the publication of data in a peer-reviewed scientific journal which highlights positive results in an animal model of Marburg virus infection enabled by Tekmira's lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology.

21 Aug 2014

Critical Advance in Creating Medical Nanorobots

Researchers from the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences and MIPT have made an important step towards creating medical nanorobots.

20 Aug 2014

Researchers Capture and Release Single-Cells

Scientists at the Houston Methodist Research Institute have figured out how to pick up and transfer single cells using a pipette -- a common laboratory tool that's been tweaked slightly. They describe this engineering feat and preliminary test results in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

20 Aug 2014

NIH Awards $1.15 Million Grant to Train Next Generation of Cancer Nanomedicine Scientists

Northeastern University has received a five-year, $1.15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute to train the next generation of cancer nanomedicine scientists and clinicians through a unique experiential learning program.

20 Aug 2014

Nanoparticles in New Chikungunya Virus Candidate Vaccine Mimic Immune-Stimulating Effects of Actual Virus Particles

The first human trial of a new vaccine developed using non-infectious virus-like particles (VLP) appears likely to offer protection against chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne infection, according to a study published in The Lancet. Since its re-emergence in 2004, chikungunya virus has become a growing public-health threat that has affected millions of people in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and in recent months it has been spreading throughout the Americas.

18 Aug 2014

Vascular Enabled Integrated Nanosecond Pulse Procedure Helps Open Blood-Brain-Barrier

A team of researchers from the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences have developed a new way of using electricity to open the blood-brain-barrier (BBB).

13 Aug 2014

Trojan Horse Nanospheres Kill Tumour Cells

A "Trojan horse" treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

13 Aug 2014

Venom Toxins in Nanometer-Sized Particles May Help Treat Breast Cancer

Bee, snake or scorpion venom could form the basis of a new generation of cancer-fighting drugs, scientists will report here today. They have devised a method for targeting venom proteins specifically to malignant cells while sparing healthy ones, which reduces or eliminates side effects that the toxins would otherwise cause.   

From American Chemical Society 12 Aug 2014

Nanomedicine News

EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium to Feature BIND Therapeutics’ Presentation on Clinical Activity of BIND-014

Engineered Vault Nanoparticles Could Lead to More Effective Treatments for Cancer and HIV

Science Translational Medicine Publishes Positive Data on Tekmira's Lipid Nanoparticle Technology for Targeting Marburg Virus

Critical Advance in Creating Medical Nanorobots

Researchers Capture and Release Single-Cells

NIH Awards $1.15 Million Grant to Train Next Generation of Cancer Nanomedicine Scientists

Nanoparticles in New Chikungunya Virus Candidate Vaccine Mimic Immune-Stimulating Effects of Actual Virus Particles

Vascular Enabled Integrated Nanosecond Pulse Procedure Helps Open Blood-Brain-Barrier

Trojan Horse Nanospheres Kill Tumour Cells

Venom Toxins in Nanometer-Sized Particles May Help Treat Breast Cancer

Enhanced Antibacterial Polylactic Acid-Curcumin Nanofibers for Wound Dressings

Gold Nanoparticles to Restore Vision in Retinal Disorders

Levidian and Zentek Seek to Establish Graphene-Integrated Filter Manufacturing Facility in the Middle East to Advance Cleaner, Safer Air

Scalable Method for Porous Graphene Membranes for CO2 Capture

Biochar-Modified Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites for Enhanced Water Treatment

Overcoming Nanogold Production Challenges

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

How Electrospinning is Shaping the Future of Nanotechnology

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