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Therapeutic Cell Engineering with Surface-Conjugated Synthetic Nanoparticles

Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only when patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cell...

16 Sep 2010

Bioorthogonal Chemistry Amplifies Nanoparticle Binding and Enhances Sensitivity of Cell Detection

One of the most promising characteristics of nanoparticles as diagnostic agents is the ability to attach to the nanoparticles surface any of a wide variety of targeting molecules that can increase the distinction between...

16 Sep 2010

New Microscope Provides High Resolution Images of Living Cells

By constructing a microscope apparatus that achieves resolution never before possible in living cells, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have illuminated the molecular interactions that occur during one of the most important "trips" in all of biology: the journey of individual messenger Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules from the nucleus into the cytoplasm (the area between the nucleus and cell membrane) so that proteins can be made.

16 Sep 2010

TU Delft Launches New Department of Bionanoscience

Delft University of Technology officially opens a new Department of Bionanoscience on Thursday 16 September.

16 Sep 2010

BioScale to Launch New Protein Analysis Platform

BioScale Inc., an innovative life science company that develops, manufactures and promotes novel analytical tools enabling advancements in protein research, will unveil the ViBE™ Protein Analysis Workstation at the BioProcess International Conference September 21-23, 2010 in Providence, RI, booth number 916.

16 Sep 2010

Researchers Win NIH Grant to Develop Nanopore DNA Sequencing Method

A team led by Boston University biomedical engineering researchers has won a $4.1 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to refine its nanoscale, low-cost, ultra-fast DNA sequencing method that could lead to individual genome sequencing for less than $1,000.

16 Sep 2010

New Business Initiatives by Shrink Nanotechnologies

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc., an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the alternative energy industry, medical diagnostics and sensors, and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, issued the below update to the market regarding its commercialization efforts as well as the implementation of several new commercial initiatives.

16 Sep 2010