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Milestone Could Lead to New Treatments for Neurological Diseases

The structure of a protein that is sending electrical pulses between neurons in your brain as you read this article has been fully mapped for the first time using Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 21 Jan 2010

New Sensor Could Provide Inexpensive Diagnosis and Treatment Methods for Variety of Diseases

A tiny new sensor could provide fresh, inexpensive diagnosis and treatment methods for people suffering from a variety of diseases. University of Florida engineers have designed and tested versions of the sensor for a...

21 Jan 2010

Embedding Quantum Dots into Thermally Reactive Polymers

Direct delivery of therapeutic compounds to cellular targets can enhance drug efficacy and safety, but such techniques require careful monitoring within the body. Now, a research team led by Julius Vancso at the A*STAR I...

19 Jan 2010

Integrating Heat-Sensitive Nanotechnology Precisely Target Cancer Cells

A new treatment developed and tested by University of Oklahoma researchers not only killed large breast cancer tumors, but reduced the need for mastectomies by almost 90 percent. The latest results appear in an upcoming issue of the Annals of Surgical Oncology.

19 Jan 2010

Single-Molecule Experiments that Bring a Higher-Resolution Tool to the Study of Protein Folding

Biophysicists at TUM, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, have published the results of single-molecule experiments that bring a higher-resolution tool to the study of protein folding. How proteins arrive at the three-...

19 Jan 2010

New Paper Published in Nature Biotechnology Reports on a Rational Design Approach for Discovery of Novel Lipid Nanoparticles

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, today announced the publication of new data in the journal Nature Biotechnology by Alnylam scientists and collaborators from Tekmira Phar...

19 Jan 2010

German Researchers Furnish DNA with Nano "Wire"

The DNA biomolecule, responsible in nature for storing hereditary information, is being used increasingly as a component in nanotechnology. One successful approach for producing functional nanostructures from DNA is to i...

19 Jan 2010

Copper-Free Click Chemistry Used in Mice

Researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have crafted a unique copper-free version of click chemistry to create biomolecular probes for in vivo studies of live mice.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 18 Jan 2010

First-of-its-Kind Research Program Involving Nanotechnology and Orthopedics

A new research program at The Methodist Hospital in Houston is the nation's first dedicated solely to advancing nanotechnology in orthopedics and spine surgery. Dr. Bradley Weiner, chief of spinal surgery at Metho...

18 Jan 2010

EMBL-EBI Launches Open Access Drug Discovery Database

ChEMBLdb, a vast online database of information on the properties and activities of drugs and drug-like small molecules and their targets, launches today with information on over half a million compounds. The data lie at the heart of translating information from the human genome into successful new drugs in the clinic.

18 Jan 2010