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Nanometer-Sized 'Cargo Ships' Targetting and Destroying Tumors

Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body's immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected.

12 Sep 2008

Destroying Tumor Cells Using Nanoparticles and Light

Researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered a method for destroying tumor cells by using nanoparticles and light. Wensha Yang’s technique is actually dealing with quantum dots. Quantum dots are se...

11 Sep 2008

Bio-Coatings Now Available for Co-Development and Licensing

Accelr8 Technology Corporation announced today that two teams of university research collaborators report new methods for scalable production with the company's patented OptiChem® bio-coatings. Led by Dr. David G...

11 Sep 2008

Global Shortages of Radio Isotopes for Cancer Diagnosis Could be a Thing of the Past

Thanks to a newly-developed technology at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past. This is the message from Prof. Bert Wolterbeek of Delft University of Technology's Reactor Institute Delft (RID) in an article in university journal Delta.

11 Sep 2008

Calando Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase II Clinical Trial of Nanoparticle-Based IT-101

Calando Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a majority owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that it has initiated a Phase II clinical trial in the United States evaluating the safety and efficacy of its...

11 Sep 2008

Instrument to Provide Real-Time Images of Biological Processes

Researchers at the University of New Mexico were recently awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to support a research program within the Department of Physics. The program, titled "A Facility to Perform Bio-molecular Imaging; Real Time Phase Mapping of Biological Dynamics," is designed to provide real-time images of biological processes at nano and pico scale resolutions, a feat never achieved before.

11 Sep 2008

Nanomedicine News

Nanometer-Sized 'Cargo Ships' Targetting and Destroying Tumors

Destroying Tumor Cells Using Nanoparticles and Light

Bio-Coatings Now Available for Co-Development and Licensing

Global Shortages of Radio Isotopes for Cancer Diagnosis Could be a Thing of the Past

Calando Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase II Clinical Trial of Nanoparticle-Based IT-101

Instrument to Provide Real-Time Images of Biological Processes

Computer Simulations Showing Evidence of Biological Evolution at Work on the Molecular Level

Medical Nanotechnology Markets to Reach $1 Trillion by 2015

MagForce Nanotechnologies to Present at UBS Global Life Sciences Conference

New International Alliance to Establish Protocols for Toxicological Testing of Nanomaterials

Nanopore-Based Sensor Enables Rapid and Precise Disease Diagnosis

Combining Nanofluids and Turbulators for Sustainable Energy

Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology

Multiscale Force Sensing with Photon-Avalanching Nanocrystals

Enhancing Material Properties through Nanotube Encapsulation

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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Characterization of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, Injectables, and Proteins

The Future of Wound Care: Why Nanofibers are Key to Accelerated Healing

The Evolution of Lipid Nanoparticles

How Emulsion Electrospinning is Transforming Materials