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Magnetically Vectored Nanocapsules for Tumor-Penetration and Remotely Switchable On-Demand Drug Release

To improve the tumor-specific delivery of drug to tumors, a team of investigators from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has created a system of nanoparticles-within-a-nanoparticle that can be directed to an...

23 Nov 2010

Performance of Expansile Nanoparticles in Treating Lethal Abdominal Cavity Tumors

Too often, patients with ovarian cancer or mesothelioma develop metastases that spread within the abdominal cavity, and when that occurs, the chances of surviving beyond five years drops to less than 40%, even after surg...

23 Nov 2010

Integrated Microfluidic and Imaging Platform for Kinase Activity Radioassay to Analyze Minute Patient Cancer Samples

Inappropriate growth and survival signaling, which leads to the aberrant growth of cancer cells, is a driving force behind the development of tumors. Much current cancer research focuses on the kinase enzymes whose mutations are responsible for such disregulated signaling, and many successful molecularly targeted anti-cancer therapeutics are directed at inhibiting kinase activity.

23 Nov 2010

Gold Nanoshells Sensitizes Breast Cancer Stem Cells to Radiation Therapy

Gold nanoparticles have shown promise as miniature thermal scalpels that when irradiated with near-infrared light are capable of cooking tumors to death. Now, a team of investigators from The Methodist Hospital, Baylor C...

23 Nov 2010

Microfluidic Device Capable of Trapping Rare Circulating Tumor Cells from Blood of Cancer Patients

In 2007, Mehmet Toner and Daniel Haber and their collaborators at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School developed a microfluidic device capable of trapping rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the...

23 Nov 2010

Purdue Professor Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Reduce Heart Disease in African-Americans

Reducing the incidence of heart disease in the high-risk African-American population in Indiana is the aim of a new $1.5 million grant at Purdue University.

22 Nov 2010

Cerulean Pharma Presents on Molecular Targets at EORTC-NCI-AACR

Cerulean Pharma Inc., a leader in designing and developing nanopharmaceuticals, today announced that the Company’s senior executives presented at the 22nd EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on “Molecular Targets and Ca...

From Cerulean Pharma 19 Nov 2010

MIT Researchers Develop Gold Nanorods to Kill Cancerous Cells

In the past 40 years, scientists have learned a great deal about how cells become cancerous. Some of that knowledge has translated to new treatments, but most of the time doctors are forced to rely on standard chemotherapy and radiation, which can do nearly as much damage to the patients as they do to the tumors. This series looks at targeted treatments that are on the horizon, and what needs to be done to make them a reality.

19 Nov 2010

German Scientists Deliver Anti-Cancer Drug to Cancer Cells Using Nanocarriers

Scientists in Germany have developed a way of smuggling an anti-cancer drug past the protective blood-brain barrier and into brain tumours and metastases using a nanocarrier – a tiny capsule specially designed to p...

18 Nov 2010

US Issues Patent to Nanotrope for New Cellular Mimic Technology

Nanotrope, Inc. announced today that it has been issued United States patent #7,829,272 covering its ground-breaking diagnostic test for influenza and other viral infections. The patent describes Nanotrope's cellu...

18 Nov 2010

Nanomedicine News

Magnetically Vectored Nanocapsules for Tumor-Penetration and Remotely Switchable On-Demand Drug Release

Performance of Expansile Nanoparticles in Treating Lethal Abdominal Cavity Tumors

Integrated Microfluidic and Imaging Platform for Kinase Activity Radioassay to Analyze Minute Patient Cancer Samples

Gold Nanoshells Sensitizes Breast Cancer Stem Cells to Radiation Therapy

Microfluidic Device Capable of Trapping Rare Circulating Tumor Cells from Blood of Cancer Patients

Purdue Professor Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Reduce Heart Disease in African-Americans

Cerulean Pharma Presents on Molecular Targets at EORTC-NCI-AACR

MIT Researchers Develop Gold Nanorods to Kill Cancerous Cells

German Scientists Deliver Anti-Cancer Drug to Cancer Cells Using Nanocarriers

US Issues Patent to Nanotrope for New Cellular Mimic Technology

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

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

How Electrospinning is Shaping the Future of Nanotechnology

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

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