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Researcher Receives Grant to Develop Tissue-Specific Nanotherapeutics for Breast Cancer

Xiaoting Zhang, who serves as Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati’s cancer and cell biology department, has received a U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Idea Award worth $587,000 to devise tissue-specific nanotherapeutics for human breast cancer treatment.

3 Sep 2011

Tekmira to Develop RNAi Therapeutic Drugs Using MV-RNA molecules and its Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals has inked an exclusive, global license and partnership deal with Halo-Bio RNAi Therapeutics for its innovative and proprietary RNAi technology known as multivalent RNA (MV-RNA) to develop MV-RNA molecules and therapeutic products by coupling Tekmira's lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology and MV-RNA molecules.

29 Aug 2011

Study Reveals that Nanoparticles Interrupt Transport Mechanism in Cells

Researchers at the Norwegian Radium Hospital’s Centre of Cancer Biomedicine have demonstrated that the introduction and storing of nanoparticles within cells will have a detrimental effect on the transportation of critical substances into and out of the cells, resulting in unwanted changes in the physiology of the cells and their functioning.

26 Aug 2011

Activation of Cellular Pathway by Nickel Nanoparticles May Trigger Lung Cancer

Brown University researchers have discovered that nickel nanoparticles trigger a cellular pathway called HIF-1 alpha that leads to cancer in human lung cells.

26 Aug 2011

Activus Pharma to Receive NEDO Grant to Develop Nanotechology-Based Ophthalmic Solutions

As part of its FY2011 Innovation Promotion Programme, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Incorporated Administrative Agency, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) will award a grant to Sosei Group’s subsidiary Activus Pharma for the development of advanced ophthalmic solutions.

25 Aug 2011

Researcher Receives Research Grant for DNA Strand Sequencing Using Protein Nanopore

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is happy to appreciate Mark Akeson of the University of California in Santa Cruz and his partners for receiving a three-year grant worth $3.6 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd 25 Aug 2011

Study on Peptide Nanoparticle-Based Gene Therapy for Lung Cancer Treatment

A research team led by Masaaki Tamura of Kansas State University in partnership with University of Kansas scientists is working on developing a patient-friendly lung cancer treatment process using nanoparticles.

24 Aug 2011

Cancer Cell Metabolism Study Enables Development of Selective and Efficient Cancer Therapies

Eytan Ruppin, who serves at Blavatnik School of Computer Science and Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel Aviv University, and his co-researchers have developed the cancer cell metabolism’s first computerized genome-size model that can be utilized to foresee the lethality of drugs affecting the functionality of the metabolism of a cancer cell.

23 Aug 2011

Spire Receives US Patent for its Nano-Photovoltaic Devices

Spire has declared that it has received a patent titled ‘Nanophotovoltaic Devices’ from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

20 Aug 2011

Nanotechnology Researchers Turn Embryonic Stem Cells into Heart cells

The push towards growing organs for transplantation has received a boost from the latest discovery by the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute.

From Institute of Bioengineering and Bioimaging 14 Aug 2011

Nanomedicine News

Researcher Receives Grant to Develop Tissue-Specific Nanotherapeutics for Breast Cancer

Tekmira to Develop RNAi Therapeutic Drugs Using MV-RNA molecules and its Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

Study Reveals that Nanoparticles Interrupt Transport Mechanism in Cells

Activation of Cellular Pathway by Nickel Nanoparticles May Trigger Lung Cancer

Activus Pharma to Receive NEDO Grant to Develop Nanotechology-Based Ophthalmic Solutions

Researcher Receives Research Grant for DNA Strand Sequencing Using Protein Nanopore

Study on Peptide Nanoparticle-Based Gene Therapy for Lung Cancer Treatment

Cancer Cell Metabolism Study Enables Development of Selective and Efficient Cancer Therapies

Spire Receives US Patent for its Nano-Photovoltaic Devices

Nanotechnology Researchers Turn Embryonic Stem Cells into Heart cells

Scientists Create the Largest Atomically Thin Gold Films to Make Electronics Weightless and Invisible

Sustainable Carbon Nanomaterial Gii Set to Transform Energy Storage in Internet of Things Devices

Sustainable Future for Carbon Nanotubes

Enhancing Material Properties through Nanotube Encapsulation

Novel Nanobody Inhibitors Against Ebola Virus: Nanosota-EB1 and Nanosota-EB2

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