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John Wiley Releases Report on Delivery Technologies for Biopharmaceuticals

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/80e30e/delivery_technolog) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Delivery Technologies for Biopharmaceuticals: Peptides, Prot...

30 Mar 2010

Virginia Tech Professor Awarded for Cancer Therapy Research Using Nanotechnology

Preliminary research on cancer treatments using nanotechnology and laser therapy has led to a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for Marissa Nichole Rylander, Virginia Tech assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (SBES).

30 Mar 2010

P3SENS Consortium to Develop New Biosensor

A 3.6M€ project cofunded by the 7th EU Framework Program is developing Photonic Crystal technology for multi-target biodetection of Cerebrovascular Disease Expertise spanning Photonic Crystals to Proteomics is al...

29 Mar 2010

Tiny Chemical Sensors Could Help Diagnose Disease and Track its Progress

Tiny chemical sensors implanted into patients could help diagnose disease and track its progress, following a development by scientists. Researchers have developed tiny probes comprising gold-coated particles. These ...

28 Mar 2010

Nanotechnology Deliver RNA to Interfere with Cancer Gene

A team of researchers and clinicians from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the California Institute of Technology has published the first proof that a targeted nanoparticle - used as an experimental the...

25 Mar 2010

Scientists Develop New Class of Fluorescent Probes that Span the Spectrum

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center (MBIC) are advancing the state-of-the-art in live cell fluorescent imaging by developing a new class of fluorescent probes that span the spectrum - from violet to the near-infrared.

25 Mar 2010

Scientists Create New Implantable Device That Measures Electrical Activity of Heart

A team of cardiologists, materials scientists, and bioengineers have created and tested a new type of implantable device for measuring the heart's electrical output that they say is a vast improvement over current devices. The new device represents the first use of flexible silicon technology for a medical application.

25 Mar 2010

Contact Lenses Containing Vitamin E Delivering More Medication for Glaucoma

The popular dietary supplement vitamin E, loaded into special medicated contact lenses, can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye - where it can treat that common disease- almost 100 times longer than possible with current commercial lenses, scientists reported here today.

24 Mar 2010

Mimicking Body Processes with Nanotechnology Sheds Light on Cancer Treatment

Biomedical researchers in Bergen are applying nanotechnology to mimic the body's natural processes, create new blood vessels to supply engineered tissue, and deepen our understanding of cancer. Effective combinati...

24 Mar 2010

NCI and Cornerstone Collaborate to Apply Emulsiphan Nanoemulsion to Anticancer Agents

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the private pharmaceutical company focused on therapies exploiting distinctive cancer cell metabolism announced that it has entered into a Collaboration Agreement with the United States National Cancer Institute ("NCI").

24 Mar 2010