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Unique Nanomechanical Signature Shows Promise to Improve Cancer Treatment

The texture of breast cancer tissue differs from that of healthy tissue. Using a cutting-edge tissue diagnostic device, a group of researchers in Basel, Switzerland, has determined one key difference: cancerous tissue is a mix of stiff and soft zones, whereas healthy tissue has uniform stiffness.

2 Feb 2013

New Approach to Nanodrug Delivery Helps Improve CNS Disorder Treatment

The treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases can be particularly challenging because many of the therapeutic agents such as recombinant proteins and gene medicines are not easily transported across the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

2 Feb 2013

New Technique Facilitates Rapid Scale-Up of Production and Testing of Biological Parts

The scientists, from Imperial College London, say their research brings them another step closer to a new kind of industrial revolution, where parts for these biological factories could be mass-produced. These factories have a wealth of applications including better drug delivery treatments for patients, enhancements in the way that minerals are mined from deep underground and advances in the production of biofuels.

2 Feb 2013

Researchers Create Innovative Cardiac Tissue Patches Using Nanotechnology

On January 30, 2013 ACS Nano published a study by Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, MASc, a researcher in the division of biomedical engineering at Brigham and Women's Hospital, detailing the creation of innovative cardiac patches that utilize nanotechnology to enhance the conductivity of materials to induce cardiac tissue formation.

2 Feb 2013

Optofluidics Pre-Launches Molecular NanoTweezer System at SPIE Photonics West 2013

Optofluidics announces the pre-release of its Molecular NanoTweezer system - the most powerful optical trapping technology in the world – at SPIE Photonics West, BiOS and Biophysical Society annual meetings in Feb. 2013. Many thousands of times more powerful than the current state-of-the-art technology, the Molecular NanoTweezer allows rapid and automated handling of the smallest of particles including proteins, viruses, cells as well as inorganic nanoparticles.

1 Feb 2013

Drug Delivery Using Camouflaged Nanoparticles

By cloaking nanoparticles in the membranes of white blood cells, scientists at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute may have found a way to prevent the body from recognizing and destroying them before they deliver their drug payloads. The group describes its "LeukoLike Vectors", or LLVs, in the January issue of Nature Nanotechnology.

1 Feb 2013

MagForce Announce Research Project on Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Nanostart-holding MagForce AG (Frankfurt, XETRA: MF6), a leading medical technology company in the field of nanomedicine in oncology, today announced the start of a research project with the University of Bremen, Center ...

From Coreo AG 31 Jan 2013

FlexTech Alliance Receives AFRL Award to Launch Nano-Bio Manufacturing Consortium

Remote, wireless monitoring of physiological functions and structural performance in real time has long been a goal of many manufacturing industries. Achievement of that goal is now a step closer to reality with the announcement today of an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) award to FlexTech Alliance of San Jose, Calif.

31 Jan 2013

Researchers at Lomonosov Moscow State University Use Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis for Vaccine Characterization

NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is used for vaccine characterization and standardization in the virology research group of Dr Nikolai Nikitin at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

29 Jan 2013

USDA Announces Investment to Support 250 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Projects

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) invests nearly $10 million a year to support about 250 nanoscale science and engineering projects that could lead to revolutionary advances in agriculture and food systems.

29 Jan 2013

Bionanotechnology News

Unique Nanomechanical Signature Shows Promise to Improve Cancer Treatment

New Approach to Nanodrug Delivery Helps Improve CNS Disorder Treatment

New Technique Facilitates Rapid Scale-Up of Production and Testing of Biological Parts

Researchers Create Innovative Cardiac Tissue Patches Using Nanotechnology

Optofluidics Pre-Launches Molecular NanoTweezer System at SPIE Photonics West 2013

Drug Delivery Using Camouflaged Nanoparticles

MagForce Announce Research Project on Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

FlexTech Alliance Receives AFRL Award to Launch Nano-Bio Manufacturing Consortium

Researchers at Lomonosov Moscow State University Use Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis for Vaccine Characterization

USDA Announces Investment to Support 250 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Projects

Revolutionary Nanofibers Made from Flour for Tissue Regeneration

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

Breakthrough in Broadband Photodetectors: Nanomaterial Gii Could Bring Faster Broadband and Higher Quality Medical Imaging

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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