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Nanoparticles Harvest Tumor Biomarkers

The long and challenging effort to find blood-borne markers for cancer and other diseases may soon enter a new realm of success using a new nanoparticle that preferentially and rapidly removes small proteins and other mo...

17 Jan 2008

Tumor-Associated Enzyme Triggers Drug Release From Nanoparticles

Cancer cells display a variety of proteins on their outer membranes that are not present on the surface of normal cells. Although these proteins are likely to be critical to the survival or metastatic spread of cance...

17 Jan 2008

Nanorod-Aptamer Combo Targets Tumors

Aptamers, short stretches of DNA or RNA that can act much like antibodies, have shown promise as targeting agents for selective nanoparticle trafficking to tumors. Their ability to recognize and bind to tumor-specifi...

17 Jan 2008

Polymeric Nanoparticles for Tumor Vaccines

The quest for an effective antitumor vaccine has received a boost from the results of work aimed at developing a nanoparticle that delivers tumor antigens to the immune system cells that trigger antibody production. ...

17 Jan 2008

Detection of DNA Sequences Using an Alternating Electric Field in a Nanopore Capacitor

Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a strategy for sequencing DNA by driving the molecule back and forth through a nanopore capacitor in a semiconductor chip. The t...

17 Jan 2008

Nano eNabler Sales Record for BioForce Nanosciences

BioForce's flagship product Nano eNabler molecular printer sets sales records

16 Jan 2008

Membrane Nanotubes may Hold the Key to How HIV Virus Infects Human Immune Cells

String like connections, called membrane nanotubes, found between T-cells could be important to how HIV spreads between cells in the human immune system.

15 Jan 2008

Gene Detection Platform Made From Self Assembled DNA Nanostructures

Scientists at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have developed the world’s first gene detection platform made up entirely from self-assembled DNA nanostructures. The results could have broad implications for gene chip technology and may also revolutionize the way in which gene expression is analyzed in a single cell.

11 Jan 2008

Gold Nanoparticles Created for use as Reference Standards in Biomedical Research

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research community — literally “gold standards” for labs studying the biological effects of nanoparticles.

10 Jan 2008

Researchers Develop a New Nanobiotechnology that Enables Magnetic Control of at the Cellular Level

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a new “nanobiotechnology” that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which could lead to finely...

9 Jan 2008