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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

Gold Nanocage Acts as Key Tool in Photothermal Cancer Therapy

In a lecture he delivered in 1906, the German physician Paul Ehrlich coined the term Zuberkugel, or "magic bullet," as shorthand for a highly targeted medical treatment.

15 Mar 2010

Scientists Record First Microscopic Images Showing Deadly Effects of AMPs

For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Now, MIT scientists have recorded the first microscopic images showing the deadly effects of AMPs, most of which kill by poking holes in bacterial cell membranes.

14 Mar 2010

Nanotechnology-Based Drug Delivery Methods Could be Used to Treat Cancer, Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia and HIV/AIDS

Northeastern University pharmaceutical sciences professor Mansoor Amiji is leading interdisciplinary research into nanotechnology-based methods of drug delivery that could provide breakthroughs in treating diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia and HIV/AIDS.

12 Mar 2010

New Nano-Sized Drug Delivery System to Treat Cancer, HIV and Lymphoma

Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (MIPS) researchers, in collaboration with the biotechnology company Starpharma Holdings Ltd (ASX:SPL) have developed a new method to deliver medications that may benefit thousan...

12 Mar 2010

Low-Power Chips Allow Engineers to Design Wearable and Implantable Devices to Monitor Patients

In the past several decades, microchips have transformed consumer electronics, enabling new products from digital watches and pocket-sized calculators to laptop computers and digital music players.

9 Mar 2010

Nanobotmodels Create Models that can Radically Change Modern Drug Delivery Methods

Nanobotmodels Company create model of à drug delivery nanocapsule, which can be used to cancer treatment. Nanotechnology and nanorobotics development can boost and radically change modern drug delivery methods. This is our vision of cancer-treatment in the next decade.

9 Mar 2010

Researchers Develop Nanoparticles That Identify and Kill Only Cancer Cells

Another weapon in the arsenal against cancer: Nanoparticles that identify, target and kill specific cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. Led by Carl Batt, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Food Science, ...

9 Mar 2010