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Detecting Cancer Early with New Testing Method

A new testing method is being developed to detect cancer soon after the tumor has formed. It will identify characteristic substances in the blood which accompany a certain type of tumor. The first steps in the development have already been completed.

1 Feb 2010

Scientists Grow Neurons on a Microchip

Scientists from Dortmund/Germany have invented an analytical method for the rapid neurotoxicity screening. They grow neurons on a microchip and check for substances that inhibit the formation of a network between the cel...

29 Jan 2010

Smart Nanoprobes that May One Day be Used in the Battle Against Cancer

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created smart nanoprobes that may one day be used in the battle against cancer to selectively seek out and destroy tumor cells, as well as report back on the mission's status.

29 Jan 2010

DNA Medicine Institute Awarded Phase II SBIR Contract from NASA

DNA Medicine Institute, a commercial organization focused on advancing human health through innovation, today announced it has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National ...

28 Jan 2010

Microfluidics Paving Way for New Advances in Cancer Detection

New advances for the detection of cancer led by Rafael V. Davalos of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Science (SBES) are featured as the cover story in the January 19, 2010 Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine, "Lab on a Chip," the premier journal for researchers in microfluidics.

28 Jan 2010

Build Virtual Nanostructures with Molecular Origami

Harvard's Wyss Institute has created a Flash-based interactive feature that allows users to build virtual nanostructures by sequencing a simple, abstract representation of a DNA molecule and then allowing it to self assemble.

28 Jan 2010

Researchers Think Blood Proteins May Hold Key to Developing Instruments for Use by First-Responders

To develop a fast, cheap and accurate technology for determining the level of radiation exposure victims might suffer in a nuclear incident, Stanford is leading a new federally funded consortium of academic, government a...

27 Jan 2010

New Tool for Gene Therapy that Significantly Increases Gene Delivery to Cells

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts have developed a new tool for gene therapy that significantly increases gene delivery to cells in the ret...

27 Jan 2010

Clark School's Nanofactories Could Be Next Big Step in Antimicrobial Treatment

New research at the A. James Clark School of Engineering could prevent bacterial infections using tiny biochemical machines--nanofactories--that can confuse bacteria and stop them from spreading, without the use of antib...

27 Jan 2010

Flash Frozen Under the Electron Microscope - Examining Mechanical Properties of Alzheimer's Amyloid Fibrils

Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type-II diabetes, and prion diseases like BSE all involve the deposition of amyloid fibrils in tissues and organs. These are fibrous clumps of incorrectly folded proteins...

27 Jan 2010