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New Nano-Scale Drug Delivery System for Acne Treatment

A natural product found in both coconut oil and human breast milk – lauric acid -- shines as a possible new acne treatment thanks to a bioengineering graduate student from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

15 Apr 2010

Nano Retina Receives Grant from BIRD Foundation for Development of Bio-Retina

Nano Retina announced today that it has received a grant for just under three-quarters of one million dollars from the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation.

15 Apr 2010

Researchers Using Nanotechnology to Find Way of Mimicking Body's Natural Processes

An EU-funded research team at Norway's University of Bergen is using nanotechnology to find a way of mimicking the body's natural processes, including inducing cells to create new blood vessels for biomedically e...

14 Apr 2010

New Method for Creating Complex 3-D Structures for Biocompatible Devices, Microscaffolding and Other Microsystems

Although it looks small and unassuming, the tiny origami crane sitting in a sample dish in University of Illinois professor Jennifer Lewis' lab heralds a new method for creating complex three-dimensional structures for biocompatible devices, microscaffolding and other microsystems.

14 Apr 2010

Taking the Trial and Error Out of Drug Design

Scientists here are taking the trial and error out of drug design by using powerful computers to identify molecular structures that have the highest potential to serve as the basis for new medications. Most drugs are ...

14 Apr 2010

Microfluidic Device Provides Fast and Selective Detection of Low Levels of Vascular Disease Biomarkers

The detection of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs)-specific biomarkers for vascular diseases that exist at low concentrations in blood-is a time-consuming process that requires large blood-sample volumes from patients....

13 Apr 2010

Nanotechnology Professor Awarded $1.25 Million for Vaccine Research

University of Queensland research into new and efficient vaccines will be one of the benefits of the latest Smart Futures Premier's Fellowship.

13 Apr 2010

Researchers Analyze Molecular Diffusion Inside Cells With New Olympus Confocal Microscope Software

Researchers studying the movement, interactions, and microenvironments of intracellular molecules often need to analyze information on the patterns and rates with which molecules diffuse within the cells. Now, scienti...

13 Apr 2010

Novel Method Could Significantly Improve Diagnostic Tests

EU-funded scientists in Sweden have developed a novel method to study genetic variation directly in individual cells and in tissues. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Methods, provide valuable new insights ...

13 Apr 2010

Breakthrough Paves the Way for On-the-Spot Medical Diagnostics

A European research project has shown how to build optical sensors directly into the structure of labs-on-chips. The breakthrough paves the way for on-the-spot medical diagnostics. People have been working on the &lsq...

13 Apr 2010

Bionanotechnology News

New Nano-Scale Drug Delivery System for Acne Treatment

Nano Retina Receives Grant from BIRD Foundation for Development of Bio-Retina

Researchers Using Nanotechnology to Find Way of Mimicking Body's Natural Processes

New Method for Creating Complex 3-D Structures for Biocompatible Devices, Microscaffolding and Other Microsystems

Taking the Trial and Error Out of Drug Design

Microfluidic Device Provides Fast and Selective Detection of Low Levels of Vascular Disease Biomarkers

Nanotechnology Professor Awarded $1.25 Million for Vaccine Research

Researchers Analyze Molecular Diffusion Inside Cells With New Olympus Confocal Microscope Software

Novel Method Could Significantly Improve Diagnostic Tests

Breakthrough Paves the Way for On-the-Spot Medical Diagnostics

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

A New Understanding of Metal-Carbon Interactions

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

A New Language for Nanopore Design

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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