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Killing Cancer Cells with Nanoparticles Bonded to Biological Material

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic titanium dioxide nanoparticles bonded to soft biological material.

From Argonne National Laboratory 19 Aug 2009

Large Protective Polymer Molecule Significantly Improve Protein Drugs

A new method for attaching a large protective polymer molecule to a protein appears to improve protein drugs significantly. Bioengineers at Duke University developed the new approach and demonstrated in an animal mode...

19 Aug 2009

Tiny "Microneedle" Patch Making Hypodermic Needles Thing of the Past

Good news for people fearful of needles and squeamish of shots: Scientists at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society report the design of a painless patch that may someday render hypodermic needles - as well as annual flu shots - a thing of the past.

From American Chemical Society 19 Aug 2009

New Experimental Approach to Wound Healing

In a presentation to the American Chemical Society meeting, Ankit Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described an experimental approach to wound healing that could take advantage o...

19 Aug 2009

Concrete Link Between Nanoparticle Exposure and Development of Severe Pulmonary Fibrosis

A study published in the forthcoming issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ), has for the first time claimed a concrete link between exposure to nanoparticles in adhesive paint and development of severe pulmonary...

19 Aug 2009

Professors Honored at Technology Review's EmTech09 Conference at MIT in September

The University of Southern California today announced that two faculty members from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have been recognized by Technology Review magazine as some of the world's top innovators under...

18 Aug 2009

A Biologist, Physicist, and Nanotechnologist Decipher Critical Phase of How Cells Divide

"A biologist, a physicist, and a nanotechnologist walk into a..." sounds like the start of a joke. Instead, it was the start of a collaboration that has helped to decipher a critical, but so far largely unstudied, phase of how cells divide.

18 Aug 2009

Insights that Could Potentially Lead to Development of Custom-Tailored Anti-Cancer Drugs

Biochemists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have illuminated a reaction pathway that does just that, in collaboration with researchers from Nereus Pharmaceuticals, based in San Diego, California. In the current issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, they report insights that could potentially lead to the development of custom-tailored anti-cancer drugs.

18 Aug 2009

Surface-Modified Liquid Protein with Liquid-Crystalline Properties

Proteins are solids. When heated they do not melt; instead, they decompose or sublime directly to the gas phase at low pressures. They cannot be converted into a liquid form unless they are dissolved in a solvent.

17 Aug 2009

NanoBio to Present Preclinical Data at Immunotherapeutics and Vaccine Summit

NanoBio Corp. announced today that it is giving an oral presentation at the 2009 Immunotherapeutics + Vaccine Summit, which will include preclinical data demonstrating that its intranasal nanoemulsion adjuvant technology significantly enhances the immune response to influenza vaccines.

From BlueWillow Biologics 17 Aug 2009