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Nanotechnology Corporation Supports Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing for Age-Related Illnesses

This project to manufacture innovative drugs combating age-related diseases is based on pioneering work by V.P. Skulachev, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and director of the A.N. Belozersky Research Institute ...

24 Feb 2010

Carbon Nanotubes and Zirconia Nanoparticles Can Help Produce Long Lasting Prothesis

Current body protheses do not last more than 10-15 years. After this time, the operation has to be repeated in order to change prothesis. It is usually problematic as, in general, it is elderly people that use the proced...

24 Feb 2010

University Chooses NanoSight Characterization System to Aid in Drug Delivery Research Programs

The Division of Drug Delivery Technology is part of the Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research (LACDR), a research institute located at the Gorlaeus laboratories in Leiden in the Netherlands.

23 Feb 2010

Researchers Using Nanotechnology to Fight Influenza

Montana State University scientists are researching the use of nanomaterials to develop a new way of fighting influenza and other respiratory infections caused by viruses.

19 Feb 2010

Liquidia Technologies Announces Frank J. Malinoski as its New Chief Medical Officer

Liquidia Technologies, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing particle-based vaccines and therapeutics, announced today that Frank J. Malinoski, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the company as Chief Medical Officer...

From Liquidia Technologies, Inc. 19 Feb 2010

Nanopores to Detect Specific Genetic Sequences

As efforts such as The Cancer Genome Atlas and others generate vast quantities of information about the genetic makeup of different types of cancer, it is becoming increasingly clear that such information has great poten...

18 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Boosting Anti-Cancer Immunotherapy

One of the hallmarks of cancer is that tumors are able to suppress the immune system, preventing the body's own defense system from eliminating the disease, particularly as tumors spread through the body.

18 Feb 2010

Design Considerations for Tumour-Targetting Nanoparticles

One of the challenges of using nanoparticles for imaging tumors during surgery is that there needs to be a tradeoff between the number of nanoparticles that target a tumor and the rapid clearance of any unbound nanoparti...

18 Feb 2010

MRI Contrast Agent and Nanodiamond Dramatically Enhances Signal Intensity

A Northwestern University study shows that coupling a widely used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal intensity and thus vivid image contrast. &quo...

18 Feb 2010

Article to be Published on Role of Nanotechnology in Cancer Treatment

A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine.

18 Feb 2010