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Comprehensive Overview of the Biomedical Applications of Various Types of Functional Magnetic Nanomaterials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Nanomedicine: Design and Applications of Magnetic Nanomaterials, Nanosensors and Nanosystems" to their offering. ...

3 Feb 2009

Collaboration to Explore Therapeutic Potential of microRNAs

Mirna Therapeutics ("Mirna"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Asuragen, Inc. and the University of California, San Francisco announce that they have entered into a collaboration agreement to evaluate the capacity of specific microRNAs to reduce or eliminate tumors in mouse models of cancer.

3 Feb 2009

Maney Publishing Announces New Journal "Bubble Science, Engineering and Technology"

Professor Mohan Edirisinghe (University College London, UK), Dr Carlos Martinez (Purdue University, USA) and Maney Publishing are pleased to announce a new journal for 2009, Bubble Science, Engineering and Technology. ...

3 Feb 2009

New Tool Predicts How Chemotherapy Drug Will Work on Individual Tumors

For many cancer patients, chemotherapy can be worse than cancer itself. A patient may respond to one drug but not another, or the tumor may mutate and stop responding to the drug, resulting in months of wasted time, inef...

2 Feb 2009

Static Electricity on the Nanoscale Generates Chiral Patterns

These objects are all chiral - they cannot exactly superimpose their mirror image by translation or rotation. A common example of this is human hands - a right hand cannot superimpose itself into its mirror image, a left...

2 Feb 2009

Microkit for Fast and Accurate Detection of Cancer and Infectious Diseases

Rapid, easy and affordable tests for cancer and avian flu and other infectious diseases move a step closer to patients as DYAMED Biotech Pte Ltd licenses a unique all-in-one automated diagnostic system called MicroKit fr...

2 Feb 2009

Peptide-Guided Hollow Gold Nanospheres Find Melanoma Cells, Penetrate and Then Cook the Tumor

Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared light, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research.

2 Feb 2009

Using Nanotubes and Stem Cells to Accelerate Bone Growth

Engineers at the University of California at San Diego have come up with a way to help accelerate bone growth through the use of nanotubes and stem cells. This new finding could lead to quicker and better recovery, for example, for patients who undergo orthopedic surgery.

30 Jan 2009

Report is an Enlightening Picture of Government Activity in Nanotechnology

Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research today released the annual report for the Australian National Nanotechnology Strategy. "The report is an enlightening picture of government ...

30 Jan 2009

Non-Coding RNAs Play A Role in Regulating Expression of Genes in Yeast

Much debate has surrounded the mostly unknown function of non-coding RNAs, which have recently been shown to constitute a surprisingly large proportion of gene transcripts, rather than encoding proteins. Now, as reported in Nature*, a research team led by Kunihiro Ohta of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, has discovered a new role for such non-coding RNAs in gene expression in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

29 Jan 2009