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Nanoparticles Cooperate to Detect and Treat Tumors

If one nanoparticle is good, two may be better, especially when they are designed to cooperate with each other to diagnose and treat cancer. That finding comes from work led by Michael Sailor, Ph.D., a member of the Cent...

19 Mar 2010

Gold Nanobeacons Detect Sentinel Lymph Nodes

Virtually every patient diagnosed with breast cancer or melanoma undergoes lymph node biopsy to determine if their cancer has begun spreading in the body. Taking this biopsy involves an invasive and uncomfortable procedu...

19 Mar 2010

Dual-Purpose Nanoparticles Spot Residual Tumors, Improves Cancer Surgery

The surest cure for cancer is to remove every last bit of a tumor through surgery. Unfortunately, for most cancers that is also the most difficult approach because of two problems: it is nearly impossible today to spot e...

19 Mar 2010

Haemonetics' New Alliance Marks Important Milestone in its Nano Program

Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE: HAE), a global blood management solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a reagent development and supply agreement with Quotient Biodiagnostics Group and its wholly owne...

19 Mar 2010

Nanodiamond Monolayer Coatings Promote Formation of Functional Neuronal Networks

Researchers in London have found that nanometer size diamonds can be attached to a wide range of substrates and that they can promote the growth of neurons without the need for the complex layers of proteins normally required.

17 Mar 2010

Better Understanding of Conga Dance inside Cells

Understanding the steps to the intricate dance inside a cell is essential to one day choreographing the show. By studying the molecules that give a cell its structure, University of Illinois researchers are moving closer to understanding one of those steps: the conga line.

17 Mar 2010

Platform Validation Yields More than Twenty Such Novel Peptides

Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN) announced today the development and validation of its Intracellular Drug Delivery (IDD) discovery platform for identification of cell penetrating peptides. Compugen also announced that as par...

17 Mar 2010

Nanoembolization Open Doors for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

Pancreatic cancer—known as the most fatal cancer with no known effective treatment—requires a radical new therapy. A promising approach may come in the form of tiny gold nanoparticles—loaded with a t...

17 Mar 2010

Fibrous Polymer Scaffold Delivering Liver-Like Cells into Damaged Liver for Tissue Repair

Biocompatible materials that emulate living tissues can be used for tissue repair and regeneration. Polymer scaffolds, for example, mimic the network that connects cells and stimulates cell adhesion. They can also transp...

16 Mar 2010

Nano3D Biosciences Tests New Technique to Grow 3-D Cell Cultures

The film "Avatar" isn't the only 3-D blockbuster making a splash this winter. A team of scientists from Houston's Texas Medical Center this week unveiled a new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures, a technological leap from the flat petri dish that could save millions of dollars in drug-testing costs.

16 Mar 2010