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Nanotechnology-based Platforms to Deliver Essential Vitamins to Diseased Cells

Access Pharmaceuticals is collaborating with a pharmaceutical company to use its CobaCyte and CobOral technology to deliver RNAi therapeutics.

From Abeona Therapeutics Inc. 20 Apr 2011

Nanobodies Likely to Treat Individual Cancer Types

A new breakthrough published online in The FASEB Journal could enable doctors identify patients who could respond to breast cancer drug treatments.

20 Apr 2011

Lipid-based Nanoparticles Could Reduce Gastrointestinal Toxicity

The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) and the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) have declared that Champions Oncology has used an option to license Irinophore C, a liposomal formulation of Irinotecan.

20 Apr 2011

Iron Nanostructures to Help Identify Particular Internal Organs

Associate professor of mechanical engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston Li Sun is conducting research to develop contrasting agents to provide color to magnetic resonance imaging by using iron nanostructures.

20 Apr 2011

DNA Nanostructures for Nano-medicine Applications

A research team led by HaoYan and Yan Liu at the Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute has enhanced the ability of DNA origami to create irregular, two and three-dimensional shapes simulating natural ones.

20 Apr 2011

Nano Discs Used to View Ribosome's Interaction with Cell Membrane

A team of researchers in a joint venture between the University of Illinois and the University of Munich has conducted two studies that explain the chemical and mechanical communications that enable the ribosome, which builds the cell's protein, to integrate a growing protein inside the cellular membrane.

19 Apr 2011