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Detecting Tumors Faster

To diagnose cancer reliably, doctors usually conduct a biopsy including tissue analysis - which is a time-consuming process. A microscopic image sensor, fitted in an endoscope, is being developed for in vivo cancer diagnosis, to speed up the detection of tumors.

1 Jun 2010

Researchers Demonstrate Feasibility of Logic Operations on Single Nanoparticle

New perspectives are opening up in bio-engineering thanks to research jointly carried out by teams of chemists at the University of Liège and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem within the framework of the European MOLOC project (Molecular Logic Circuits). This work has led to the publication of two important publications, one straight after the other, in the Nature Nanotechnology journal.

31 May 2010

HealthSport and SMI Merge to Develop Oral Thin Film for Drug Delivery

HealthSport, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: HSPO), a fully integrated formulator, developer and manufacturer of bi-layer, oral thin film products that deliver drug and dietary supplement ingredients through buccal (betwe...

31 May 2010

"Tattoo" of Nanoparticles Designed to Detect Glucose

People with type I diabetes must prick their fingers several times a day to test their blood sugar level. Though the pain is minor, the chore interferes with daily life.

28 May 2010

Tiny Magnetite Nanoparticles Can Prove Useful in Real-World Applications

While attempting to solve one mystery about iron oxide-based nanoparticles, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) stumbled upon another one. But once its implications are understood, their discovery* may give nanotechnologists a new and useful tool.

28 May 2010

Rapid Synthesis of Nanoscale Reporter Tags Offers Promising Alternative to Fluorescent Labeling

Visualizing the complex internal cellular processes within our bodies requires the use of photostable, optically active probes that can be tracked with special microscopy instruments. One technique, surface-enhanced Rama...

26 May 2010

Researchers Test C6-Ceramide Nanoliposomes on Cancer Cells

A new way to deliver cancer-fighting drugs using tiny particles made from lipids and chemotherapy drugs may have the power to knock out malignancies with a one-two punch. The strategy holds promise for patients with...

26 May 2010

Scaffold Gradients: Finding the Right Environment for Developing Cells

Now a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a way to offer cells a three-dimensional scaffold that varies over a broad range of degrees of stiffness to determine where they develop best.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 25 May 2010

NIH Senior Investigator Presents at Institute of Biophysics

Dr. Joshua Zimmerberg, senior investigator of the National Institutes of Health, USA visited the Institute of Biophysics (IBP) and delivered a lecture at the invitation of IBP director Professor XU Tao on May 20, 2010. ...

25 May 2010

Ablynx, Pfizer Extend Research Collaboration on Anti-TNF-Alpha Nanobodies

Ablynx (Euronext Brussels: ABLX) announced today that the research collaboration which forms part of its license agreement for Nanobodies to tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) with Pfizer has been extended for anot...

25 May 2010