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Inhaling Carbon Nanotubes Can Affect Outer Lining of the Lung

Carbon nanotubes are being considered for use in everything from sports equipment to medical applications, but a great deal remains unknown about whether these materials cause respiratory or other health problems. Now a ...

25 Oct 2009

Iowa State Researchers Study Materials, Combustion, Cancer with New 'T-Ray' Instrument

Thomas Chiou explained how the technology would allow Iowa State University researchers to take a close and unique look at materials reliability, biofuels combustion, environmental clean-up, cancer screening, biomass conversion, ionic liquids and many other research areas in science and engineering.

23 Oct 2009

New Biosensor Help Identify Cells in Immune System that Actively Suppress Tumour Growth

A powerful new biosensor developed by European researchers will help identify cells in the immune system that actively suppress tumour growth, then put them to use. Enlisting the patient's own immune system would be ...

22 Oct 2009

Discovery Could Offer New Information About How Molecule Moves and Works

Scientists who study RNA have faced a formidable roadblock: trying to examine RNA's movements in a living cell when they can't see the RNA. Now, a new technology has given scientists the first look ever at RNA in...

22 Oct 2009

NCI Employs NanoString nCounter Analysis System at its Core Labs

NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a molecular barcoding detection system, today announced that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is employing its nCounter™ Analysis System at two of its core labs.

From Nanostring Technologies 22 Oct 2009

Biocompatibility of Nanowires in the Brain

The biological safety of nanotechnology, in other words, how the body reacts to nanoparticles, is a hot topic. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed for the first time to carry out successful experiments ...

22 Oct 2009

GE Announces Formation of "GE Healthymagination Fund"

GE (NYSE: GE) announced today the formation of the "GE Healthymagination Fund", a new equity fund that will make investments in highly promising healthcare technology companies. The fund will invest in companie...

22 Oct 2009

Munich Researchers Develop New Test Process for Cancer Drugs

It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Medical Electronics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have developed a new test process for cancer drugs.

22 Oct 2009

2 Grand Prize Winners Have Innovations Related to Cell Engineering and Tools for Quadriplegics

A faster tool for cell programming and a new way of allowing quadriplegics to perform simple tasks have won grand prizes of the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame spon...

21 Oct 2009

Chemist Turns Light into a Weapon Against Cancer

Chemist Michael Therien works at the interface of light and matter, as when sunlight shines on a leaf. "We make structures of matter, such as nanoscale objects that do interesting things when they interact with light," said Therien, a professor of chemistry who has just moved his research group to Duke from the University of Pennsylvania.

20 Oct 2009