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Development of Biocompatible Gold and Silver Nanoparticles for Medical Applications

The future of cancer detection and treatment may be in gold nanoparticles - tiny pieces of gold so small they cannot be seen by the naked eye. The potential of gold nanoparticles has been hindered by the difficulty of ma...

27 Feb 2007

Microfluidic Chip Solves Biological Mystery

Using a biochemical version of a computer chip, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has solved a long-standing mystery related to the mating habits of yeast cells. The findings, described in the Advance Online Pu...

27 Feb 2007

Health Care in Developing Countries Could be Greatly Improved by Nanotechnology

"Nanotechnology has the potential to generate enormous health benefits for the more than five billion people living in the developing world," according to Dr. Peter A. Singer, senior scientist at the McLaughlin...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 27 Feb 2007

Chemists Design Unique Structure to Capture the Movement of Atoms

Chemists at the University of Liverpool have designed a unique structure to capture the movement of atoms which may impact on future designs of pharmaceuticals. The research, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sci...

27 Feb 2007

New Technique to Generate Laser-Like X-Ray Beams

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a new technique to generate laser-like X-ray beams, removing a major obstacle in the decades-long quest to build a tabletop X-ray laser that co...

27 Feb 2007

Quantum Dots Detect Metastatic Lesions

By injecting quantum dots into tumors, investigators at Carnegie Mellon University have been able to image sentinel lymph nodes in animals using near-infrared light. These results could lead to a simple, non-invasive met...

27 Feb 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Deliver siRNA into Human Cells

Short pieces of RNA, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA), have the potential to become a new class of anticancer drugs if researchers can solve the problem of how to deliver these fragile molecules to cancer cells. On...

27 Feb 2007

Quantum Rods and Dots Image Cancer Cells

Brightly fluorescent quantum dots and quantum rods are quickly becoming important tools for identifying specific molecules and cells in living systems. Two new reports demonstrate some of the ways in which cancer researc...

27 Feb 2007

Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles Track Living Cells

Stem cell therapy, primarily bone marrow transplantation, plays a key role in treating leukemia and other types of cancer. To better track the fate of stem cells injected into patients, researchers at the Siteman Center ...

27 Feb 2007

BioForce Nanosciences to Take Nano eNabler Molecular Printer on Asian Roadshow in May

BioForce Nanosciences, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc., announces that its flagship product, the Nano eNabler molecular printer, is on an Asian road show through May. Earlier this ...

26 Feb 2007