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NanoMed Pharma Completes Second Closing of Series A Financing

NanoMed Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has achieved its preclinical development milestone for the company's lead oncology product which is intended to overcome multidrug resistance in remission induction thera...

6 Feb 2007

Coated Nanoparticles Solve Sticky Drug-Delivery Problem

The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, investigators at Johns Hopkins University have ...

6 Feb 2007

Brightly Fluorescent Europium Nanoparticles May Improve Cancer Assays

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have created a new type of nanoparticle that could be used in tests for medical diagnostics, environmental pollution, and contamination of food products. The particles,...

6 Feb 2007

Heat and pH-Sensitive Nanoparticles Designed to Target Tumors

Using a novel polymer that becomes unstable under the pH conditions inside tumor cells, investigators at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have developed a core-shell nanoparticle targeted ...

6 Feb 2007

Bright Nanoparticles Aid Basic Cancer Biology Studies

Though there is little doubt that nanoscale devices are going to play a critical role in improving cancer detection and treatment over the next five to ten years, nanoparticles are already having a major impact on the wa...

6 Feb 2007

Advanced Naotechnology Ship First Commercial Sales of ZinClear

Advanced Nanotechnology Limited is pleased to announce that shipments of its newly developed ZinClear-IM™ product have been made to customers in the US and Australia, marking first commercial sales of the product. ...

31 Jan 2007

Northeastern University Researchers Win $1.2m Grant to Develop Nanochips for Use as Nanobiosensors

A team of Northeastern University researchers has received a $1.2 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an innovative multifunctional nanochip with the long-term goal of it being used as a powerful nano...

31 Jan 2007

BioSante Announces Positive Bird Flu Results Using Nanoparticle-Based Vaccine

BioSante Pharmaceuticals has announced positive results of a dose ranging pre-clinical study demonstrating that its calcium phosphate (CaP) nanoparticle-based vaccine adjuvant, BioVant(TM), may serve as a vaccine adjuvan...

31 Jan 2007

Scientists Aim to Lower Cost of DNA Sequencing with Nanotechnology

DNA testing is transforming health care and medicine, but current technologies only give a snapshot of an individual's genetic makeup. Any patient wanting a complete picture of their inherited DNA, or genome, would d...

31 Jan 2007

New Single-Molecule Imaging System

Scientists are able to view active molecules within a biological motor of the nanometer scale with the help of a new imaging system far more sensitive and powerful than existing optical microscopes. A Purdue Universi...

31 Jan 2007