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New Findings Can Speed Use of RNA Nanotechnology for Treating Disease

Scientists are reporting an advance in overcoming a major barrier to the use of the genetic material RNA in nanotechnology — the field that involves building machines thousands of times smaller than the width of a ...

From American Chemical Society 20 Jan 2011

Chemistry Students Synthesize Molecules That Might Treat Deadly Diseases

Not many college students can say their efforts in the laboratory may lead to therapies for diseases that devastate millions of people worldwide, but chemistry students in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis can.

19 Jan 2011

New Nano-Structured Materials for Human Stem Cell Development

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 322,000 deaths globally per year are linked to severe injuries from fire and in many of these cases death could have been avoided with surgical intervention....

19 Jan 2011

Magnetotactic Bacteria Orient Themselves Using Nanomagnets

Magnetotactic bacteria orient themselves in their environment with the aid of tiny compasses, consisting of chains of membrane sacs called magnetosomes, each containing a single nanomagnet. Only a few of these species...

19 Jan 2011

New Technique to Understand Working Mechanism of Living Nanomachines

Advancements in understanding rotational motion in living cells may help researchers shed light on the causes of deadly diseases, such as Alzheimer's, according to Ning Fang, an associate scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and faculty member at Iowa State University.

14 Jan 2011

New Nanofilter Separates Molecules of Same Size with Different Chemical Properties

Separating molecules is an important part of many manufacturing and testing processes, including pharmaceutical production and some biomedical tests.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 13 Jan 2011

Life Technologies Announces Series of Innovative Products for DNA Sequencing

Life Technologies Corporation today announced a series of new product innovations across the company’s DNA sequencing portfolio.

12 Jan 2011

Tekmira Comments on Alnylam’s Recently Presented Clinical Data of ALN-VSP Candidate

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today provided the following comment on Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s recently presented data from a Phase 1 human clinical trial for ALN-VSP showing that analysis of human tissue samples demonstrated proof of RNAi in man.

11 Jan 2011

Researcher Works to Identify Variety of Biomarkers for Early Cancer Detection

Using biological samples taken from patients and state-of-the-art biochemical techniques, a Florida State University researcher is working to identify a variety of "biomarkers" that might provide earlier warnings of the presence of breast and prostate cancers.

11 Jan 2011

Silicon Microdevices May Help to Screen Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells

Research by engineers and cancer biologists at Virginia Tech indicate that using specific silicon microdevices might provide a new way to screen breast cancer cells’ ability to metastasize.

10 Jan 2011