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Radiactive Microspheres Treat Liver Cancer

Placing tiny radioactive spheres directly into the liver through its blood supply halted growth of tumors that had spread to the organ in 71 percent of patients tested in a small clinical trial, researchers from Mayo Cli...

30 Oct 2007

Rotating Magnetic Separation Technique Might Detect Multiple Pathogens at Once

A magnetic separation technique developed by researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Purdue University makes it relatively simple to sort through beads hundreds of times smaller than the peri...

30 Oct 2007

Process of How Buckyballs Form Captured in Video Simulation

The birth secret of buckyballs - hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA - has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice University. An electron microscope video and compute...

29 Oct 2007

Biodegradable Nanoball Drug Delivery System

Dutch researcher Cristianne Rijcken has developed a new type of biodegradable nanoparticle. The spherical structures can encapsulate various fat-soluble medicines, which makes it easier to target tumour tissue. These nan...

25 Oct 2007

Super Small to Fight the Super Big, Nanotechnology Being Used to Battle Obesity

Wearing a portable instrument to monitor metabolism in the fight against obesity and its related health consequences may be on the horizon thanks to collaborative research being performed at the University of Houston and...

23 Oct 2007

Drug Delivery Revolution Powered by Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology-enabled drug delivery systems (DDS) are dramatically reshaping the way existing drugs are delivered, establishing new opportunities for drug formulation and creating a host of new DDS companies resulting i...

22 Oct 2007

New Paradigms in the Research of the Biomolecular Composition of Water

Water nurtures life in all its forms, but not all water in our life systems is equal. Water in a lake, in the sea or in a cup of tea is different from the water in our bodies. This much we do know. Yet science does not y...

19 Oct 2007

Laser Beams and Gold Nanorods Combine to Blow Up and Kill Cancer Cells

Researchers have shown how tiny "nanorods" of gold can be triggered by a laser beam to blast holes in the membranes of tumor cells, setting in motion a complex biochemical mechanism that leads to a tumor cell&#...

17 Oct 2007

$20 Million Contract to Develop Inhaled Gentamicin for Treatment of Aerosol Exposure to Bioterrorism Agents

Nanotherapeutics, Inc., has announced that it has been awarded a $20 Million 4-year contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and th...

From Nanotherapeutics Inc. 15 Oct 2007

Force and Fluorescence Hybrid Device Measures Nanometer Scale Motion of Biomolecules Caused by Pico-Newton Forces

A hybrid device combining force and fluorescence developed by researchers at the University of Illinois has made possible the accurate detection of nanometer-scale motion of biomolecules caused by pico-newton forces. ...

15 Oct 2007