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Nanogap Sensor Array Wafer Chip Detecting DNA Rapidly and Cost-Effectively

IBN has successfully developed a novel electronic sensor array for more rapid, accurate and cost-efficient testing of DNA for disease diagnosis and biological research. This study by IBN Group Leader Dr Zhiqiang Gao and his team was published in the leading international chemistry journal, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

From Nanogap 24 Feb 2010

A Step Closer to One of the Holy Grails of Drug Delivery

A team of scientists led by Dr Simon Richardson at the University of Greenwich has got a step closer to one of the holy grails of drug delivery. The goal - to find a vehicle that can carry drugs not just to a specific...

24 Feb 2010

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