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NCI to Conduct Characterization Studies to Advance Development of Celator Pharmaceuticals's Nanoparticle Drug Formulation

Celator Pharmaceuticals today announced that the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL), operated by SAIC-Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), has agreed to conduct characterization studies to advance the development of the company's nanoparticle drug formulation technology.

17 Feb 2010

Research Report on Nanotechnology Market in Healthcare Sector

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Nanotechnology in Healthcare: Market outlook for applications, tools and materials, and 40 company profiles. The advent of he...

17 Feb 2010

Researchers Develop Biological Probes Using Microscopic Nanoparticles to Light Up Cancer Tumors

Building on his Nobel Prize-winning work creating fluorescent proteins that light up the inner workings of cells, a team of researchers led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Roger Tsien, PhD, professor of p...

17 Feb 2010

New Polymer Coating Protects Viral Vectors

Modified viruses that transfer genetic material into cells are attractive as tools for gene therapy, regenerative medicine and vaccination. However, after injecting these 'viral vectors' into the human body, cont...

17 Feb 2010

New 'Fertility Chip' Accurately Count Spermatozoa in Sperm

A new 'fertility chip', developed by researchers at the University of Twente's MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, can accurately count spermatozoa in sperm. This is an important step towards the development of a compact device for reliable 'pre-scanning' of male fertility.

17 Feb 2010

Researchers Create Nanoscopic Ruler Made of DNA

NIM researchers from the groups of Friedrich Simmel and Philip Tinnefeld at TU and LMU Munich created a nanoscopic ruler made of DNA. The improvement of optical microscopy towards ever higher resolution has been subje...

16 Feb 2010

NanoViricides Signs Research and Development Agreement with University of California, Berkeley

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), reports that it has signed a research and development agreement with Dr. Eva Harris's laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley...

From NanoViricides, Inc 16 Feb 2010

Gold Nanoparticles Stop Cancer from Reproducing

Taking gold nanoparticles to the cancer cell and hitting them with a laser has been shown to be a promising tool in fighting cancer, but what about cancers that occur in places where a laser light can't reach? Sc...

15 Feb 2010

Sneaking siRNA into Cancer Cells using Hydrogel Nanoparticles

One of the difficulties of fighting cancer is that drugs often hit other non-cancerous cells, causing patients to get sick. But what if researchers could sneak cancer-fighting particles into just the cancer cells?

15 Feb 2010

New Nanoparticle Could Improve Cancer Detection and Drug Delivery

University of Florida scientists have developed a new nanoparticle that could improve cancer detection and drug delivery. The particle, called a "micelle" and made up of a cluster of molecules called aptamers, ...

11 Feb 2010