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Nanoparticles to Guide Microcarriers Through Blood Vessels to Target Cancerous Cells

Professor Sylvain Martel, director of the Nanorobotics Laboratory at Polytechnique at Montreal and his team of researchers has used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) platform, to lead microcarriers filled with a dose of anti-cancer medication into the bloodstream of a living rabbit to a specified spot in the liver, where it was administered.

19 Mar 2011

Nanoparticles of Medicines Dissolve Faster in Bloodstream

Top Institute Pharma has developed technology to enable medicines to be absorbed into the blood much faster, increasing their efficiency. Scientist, Hans de Waard at the University of Groningen, has selected this sub...

18 Mar 2011

Progranulin-Derived Protein Could Provide New Treatment Strategies for Rheumatoid Arthritis

According to a report published in March 10, 2011 issue of Science, scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have developed a protein molecule from the growth factor progranulin that could offer cures for inflammatory diseases including rheumatoid arthritis.

16 Mar 2011

Scientists Build Nano-Sized Traps to Control Prostate Cancer Metastasis

A team of researchers from across the world have developed nano-sized, self assembling nanomaterials made of peptides (SAP). The cultures were then used to house prostate cancer stem cells.

16 Mar 2011

Researchers Use Nanowhiskers to Create Skeletal Muscle Tissue

Researchers working at the University of Manchester have found that tiny whiskers of nanoscale sizes extracted from marine life could help develop muscle tissue for humans.

16 Mar 2011

Artificial Fluorescent Biomolecules for Medical Research

Proteins are natural biomolecules applicable in research on life science, biotechnology and medicine. The team led by Professor Arne Skerra from the TUM department of bio-chemistry has extended the genetic code to stress bacterial cells to emit customized proteins with artificial functions.

15 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop Instrument for Rapidly Analyzing Molecular Interactions

Researchers in Israel and California have designed an instrument to analyze molecular interactions occurring in viruses and the cells they infect.

14 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop Programmable Molecular Robot

Andrew Turberfield and his research team at the University of Oxford have built a programmable molecular robot, a molecular machine of sub-microscopic dimensions comprising artificial DNA. The genetic material travels amid track locations alienated by a distance of 6nm.

11 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop New System for Producing Nano Particles

Scientists from Brigham, MIT and Women’s Hospital have designed an innovative method of forming nanoparticles that are capable of distributing drugs for diseases like cancer.

11 Mar 2011

Motor Protein Impacts Sensing of Hearing

Nano-sized molecular motors that exist in the hair cells of the inner ear sense the vibrations of all sounds, whether loud like heavy metal being ground together or subtle and soothing sounds like those of the ocean.

10 Mar 2011