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NanoKTN Plans First UK NanoMedicine Mission to Switzerland

Companies in UK are planning to visit Switzerland’s centers of excellence. The NanoKTN along with partners FCO Science & Innovation Network, Health Tech and Medicines KTN and the Swiss Embassy London would go on a mission along with several leading companies and academicians who utilize nanotechnology in the healthcare sector on a four day visit to the centers of research excellence in Lausanne/Geneva, Zurich and Basel in Switzerland.

31 May 2011

Researchers at the Brown University and IIT Kanpur Develop Nanopatch

Whenever a person experiences a heart attack, a portion of the heart stops working and its nerve cells and special cells that contract and expand on their own accord are lost forever.

25 May 2011

Glass Fiber Nanomaterial to Heal Venous Stasis Wounds

A research team at the Phelps County Regional Medical Center (PCRMC) has created a borate glass nanofiber material, which could help heal long-standing wounds in venous stasis wound patients.

24 May 2011

Partnership to Manufacture Nanoliposomal Formulation across Asia and Europe

PharmaEngine and Merrimack Pharmaceuticals recently signed an agreement, under the terms of which PharmaEngine grants Merrimack the rights to design, produce and sell PEP02 (MM-398) across Asia and Europe, excepting Taiw...

20 May 2011

T-cells Fortified with Nanoparticles to Combat Cancer Cells

Darrell Irvine has led a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discover a way to enhance the immune system with regard to combating cancer by injecting them with interleukin-filled nanoparticles.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20 May 2011

Metallic Nanoflowers to Help Blind People Regain Vision

A University of Oregon research team led by Richard Taylor is designing nanoflowers that will enable blind people including those afflicted by macular degeneration to regain vision.

19 May 2011

Customized Nanoscale Drug Delivery Platform to Penetrate and Destroy Cancer Cells

A research team at UCLA has used specially designed mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNPs) to deliver drugs to targeted tumor cells.

17 May 2011

Aptuit to Manufacture Low-Dose NSAID Nanotechnology Platform for Iroko

Iroko Pharmaceuticals and Aptuit have recently declared that Aptuit will provide enhancing production services as Iroko moves to Phase III in its clinical trials of pain medications.

17 May 2011

Nanoparticles of Drug Candidates Reduce Viral Count in Lungs of Influenza-Infected Animals

NanoViricides has announced that its FluCide drug candidates could reduce levels of infectious virus in animals lungs having a deadly level of influenza virus infection.

From NanoViricides, Inc 17 May 2011

Interdisciplinary Team Plans to Develop New Synthetic Nanomaterials

An interdisciplinary team from Canada’s National Institute for Nanotechnology and the University of Alberta has developed a new chemical bonding procedure that can combine new operations to stainless steel and mold...

16 May 2011