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Chemicals in Tea as Building Blocks for Production of Biocompatible Gold Nanoparticles

Researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia report in the Journal of Materials Chemistry that chemicals in tea are the best yet discovered to make consistent, biologically safe gold nanoparticles. More important...

27 Apr 2009

Nanoscale Probes that Can Pinpoint the Location of Tumors

A team of investigators at Purdue University has developed nanoscale probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.

27 Apr 2009

A Nanoparticle Platform that has the Potential to Target, Image, and Treat Cancer

Using a set of three biocompatible polymers and a nanoparticle containing gadolinium, a team of investigators at the Colorado School of Mines has created a nanoparticle platform that has the potential to target, image, a...

27 Apr 2009

Sniffing Out Lung Cancer in Humans using Nanosensors

In 2006 researchers established that dogs could detect cancer by sniffing the exhaled breath of cancer patients. Now, using nanoscale arrays of detectors, two groups of investigators have shown that a compact mechanical ...

27 Apr 2009

Advances in Nanotechnology Require New Oversight

Existing health and safety agencies are unable to cope with the risk assessment, standard setting and oversight challenges of advancing nanotechnology.

27 Apr 2009

Talk Discusses Promises and Challenges of Nanotechnology

Vicki Colvin of Rice University will give a talk titled "Nanotechnology: Its Promise and Challenges" at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Thursday, May 14, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.

27 Apr 2009

Nanotechnology Offering New Means to Treat Erectile Dysfunction

Cutaneous application of nanoparticles may offer a new means of delivering drugs to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), according to findings presented at the 104th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Assoc...

26 Apr 2009

Digital Pathology Leader Adds ScanScope FL to Suite of Innovative Scanners

Today at the 100th annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) being held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Aperio Technologies, Inc., (Aperio) a global leader in digital pathology for...

25 Apr 2009

UAlbany Connections Lead Physician to Success

When Dr. Sara Brenner first met Barack Obama, she was on a mission to make disease prevention a higher priority in federal health policy. Little did she know she was speaking with the future President of the United States.

24 Apr 2009

Chemist Honored as Brookhaven's "Inventor of the Year" by Battelle

Jacob Hooker, a chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and resident of Mount Sinai, NY, will be honored as Brookhaven's "Inventor of the Year" by Battelle, the global science and technology company that, together with Stony Brook University, manages Brookhaven Lab.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 24 Apr 2009