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Nano Device Help Improve Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment Monitoring

Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.

18 Nov 2009

Freiburg Bioware Team Has Done it Again

The Freiburg Bioware Team, an important part of the Excellence Cluster bioss, has done it again: one gold medal and two special prizes at the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) competition, the largest e...

18 Nov 2009

NanoString Announces Collaboration with Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a molecular barcoding detection system, today announced that it is collaborating with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to investigate molecular networks involved in immune response and other important biological processes.

From Nanostring Technologies 18 Nov 2009

Illumination Activates Compounds with Therapeutic Potential

Proteins that can switch between closed and open states control the passage of electrically charged ions across cell membranes, and are responsible for the generation and propagation of nerve impulses. Chemicals that inf...

18 Nov 2009

Competition Award for Groundbreaking Research that Uses DNA Microarray Analysis

Toray Industries, Inc. (TOKYO:3402) of Japan, an integrated chemical industry group developing its business in 21 countries and regions worldwide, announces a competition award for groundbreaking research that uses DNA microarray analysis.

17 Nov 2009

Researchers Develop Biosensor Chip 1,000 Times More Sensitive

Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University resear...

17 Nov 2009

Nanodevice Delivering Drug Dose on Command

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a polymer-coated gold nanocage that not only opens in response to light to release a small amount of a drug payload, but then closes when the light is turn...

17 Nov 2009

Nanostructured Substrates Capturing Circulating Tumor Cells

Perhaps the earliest sign that cancer is starting to spread is the appearance of so-called circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, in the blood stream. These are the forward army of a metastatic tumor, the cells that escape fr...

17 Nov 2009

Effects of Molecular Size and Binding Affinity on Tumor Targeting

One of the great promises of nanotechnologies lies in its ability to create drug-containing nanoparticles decorated with targeting molecules that recognize and bind to cancer cells, providing drug delivery only at the site of the targeted cells.

17 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology Detecting Previously Undetectable Levels of Prostate-Specific Antigen

A team of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely sensitive nanotechnology-based tool known as the biobarcode system, has detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in pati...

17 Nov 2009