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Researchers Use Masked Nanoparticles for Cancer Drug Delivery

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have devised a unique method of masking nanoparticles as red blood cells in order to supply cancer-curing drugs directly into a tumor by evading the body's immune system.

22 Jun 2011

Push to Have Gold Nanoparticles Serve as a Biomedical Testbed

Gold nanoparticles are becoming the … well … gold standard for medical-use nanoparticles. A new paper by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Cancer Institute's Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) proposes not only a sort of gold nanoparticle "testbed" to explore how the tiny particles behave in biological systems, but also a paradigm for how to characterize nanoparticle formulations to determine just what you're working with.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 21 Jun 2011

MIT Researchers Develop Communicating Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery

A research team from MIT, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego, developed a new kind of drug delivery system wherein a first nanoparticle wave targets the tumor and then calls for a much bigger second wave to infuse the cancer drugs.

21 Jun 2011

Researchers Develop New Treatment for Stroke-Affected Patients Using Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers of the Nanomedicine Lab at the University of London’s The School of Pharmacy and the Neuroscience Institute at the National Research Centre in Pisa, Italy, have utilized carbon nanotubes to rescue brain cells by silencing genes, resulting in a new treatment for stroke.

21 Jun 2011