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Virus Image Captured at Highest Resolution Ever

A team led by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved.

6 Mar 2008

Nanomedicine Set to Improve and Enhance the Effectiveness of Injectable Drugs

In an article featured on the cover of the March issue of “Nature Nanotechnology,” Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston presented a proof-of-concept study on a new...

4 Mar 2008

New Nanotube Findings Give Boost to Potential Biomedical Applications

Carbon nanotubes have shown real promise as highly accurate vehicles for delivering antitumor agents into malignant cells, but a dearth of data about what happens to the tubes after they discharge their medical payloads ...

4 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Advances Brain Cancer Detection and Therapy

Brain cancer is one of the most aggressive and lethal of malignancies, made even more difficult to treat by the fact that most anticancer drugs have a hard time even getting to the tumors. Now, studies by three differ...

4 Mar 2008

Targeted Dendrimer Advances in Preclinical Studies

Although a variety of nanoparticles continue to show promise for improving cancer imaging and therapy, regulators and drug developers are concerned that these delivery systems may prove difficult to manufacture on a cons...

4 Mar 2008

Fluorescent Nanoparticles Image Tumor Marker in Animals

Since 2004 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved three new-generation anticancer therapies that target epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a protein that is greatly overexpressed on certain types of tum...

4 Mar 2008

Microfluidics, Nanoparticles Drive Novel Cancer Detection Schemes

Early detection of tumors is one of the Holy Grails of cancer research, an achievement that would greatly improve cancer therapy and prognosis. Two new reports describe different but promising approaches to solving this ...

4 Mar 2008

Breast Cancer Testing and Diagnosis Using Nanoparticles to Make Tests Easier and Cheaper

A team from UCL has developed a new medical device which will make the early detection of breast cancer more cost effective and easier to administer.

3 Mar 2008

Researchers Reveal Electronics Structure of DNA

Utilizing a technique that combines low temperature measurements and theoretical calculations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and others have revealed for the first time the electronic structure of single DNA ...

29 Feb 2008

Nanotech Scientist Awarded as Outstanding Missourian

University of Missouri scientist Kattesh Katti recently discovered how to make gold nanoparticles using gold salts, soybeans and water. Katti’s research has garnered attention worldwide and the environmentally-frie...

29 Feb 2008