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Researchers Discover Nanocomposite Probe to Study Neurological Disorders

Case Western Reserve University researchers have discovered that a hard nanocomposite probe, when implanted in a rat model’s cerebral cortex becomes as flexible as the surrounding gray matter in a few minutes ensuring that scarring does not occur as in traditional probes.

5 Nov 2011

EuroNanoMed to Fund Eight Nanomedicine Research Projects

EuroNanoMed, an European funding program under the European Commission’s ERA-Net scheme for the advancement of transnational nanomedicine research, has declared that eight projects were selected through its third and final joint transnational call for partnership research projects will get the €8 million fund offered by the funding agencies of EuroNanoMed.

4 Nov 2011

NanoSmart Pharmaceuticals and Children's Hospital, Los Angeles Inks Research Partnership

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, as part of its current research program on nanoparticle-based therapy for Ewing's sarcoma has signed a research partnership with NanoSmart Pharmaceuticals, a developer of innovative cancer drugs, to develop and validate the novel drug-delivery platform of the company.

4 Nov 2011

Sub-Nanometre Cages Capture and Identify Molecules

Reliable and accurate single-molecule medical diagnosis is a step closer to reality with the development a new technique by Cambridge University researchers which uses sub-nanometre "cages" to capture and ident...

3 Nov 2011

Cientifica Publishes Report on Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery

The healthcare market is poised to see some of the earliest benefits of nanotechnology. Over the next decade, it will be one of nanotech's highest growth sectors. Targeted drug delivery therapies for the treatmen...

2 Nov 2011

Carbon Nanoparticles Can Help Detect Parkinson’s Disease

Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have conducted studies which suggest that carbon nanoparticles can be used to measure the amount of dopamine present in solutions even if there is interference due to the presence of ascorbic and uric acids.

29 Oct 2011

Researchers Discover Breast Cancer Detection Technology Using SQUID Sensors and Nanoprobes

A team of scientists from LLC, Senior Scientific, School of Medicine and Cancer Research and Treatment Center-University of Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories-based Integrated Nanotechnologies Facility designed nanoprobes to enable differentiation between cells having HER-2 and the cells not having HER-2.

29 Oct 2011

NanoParticles Can Help Retain Pain Relieving Drugs for Osteoarthritis

A research paper by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) at the Annual Meeting and Exposition held in Washington has presented the possibility of using nanoparticles for the delivery of osteoarthritis drugs for knee joints for the retention of the drugs in the knee cavities for a longer period of time.

28 Oct 2011

Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Being Used in Promising Breast Cancer Treatment

SouthWest NanoTechnologies' (SWeNT) Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNT) are being used in promising photothermal therapy to suppress tumor growth in breast cancer, new research reveals. According to a new article...

18 Oct 2011

University of Missouri Partners with Indian Institute for Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Research

University of Missouri and K.S.R. Educational Institutions of India have inked a five-year deal to support sophisticated research and training in nanotechnology and nanomedicine.

13 Oct 2011