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Molecular Level Self Assembly Leads to Miniature Stem Cell Laboratories

Imagine having one polymer and one small molecule that instantly assemble into a flexible but strong sac in which you can grow human stem cells, creating a sort of miniature laboratory. And that sac, if used for cell the...

28 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Increase Effectiveness of Injected Drugs

In an article featured on the cover of the March issue of Nature Nanotechnology, Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, presented a proof-of-concept study on a new multistage d...

28 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology and siRNA Based Anticancer Therapies Team Up With Nanoparticles to Fight Cancer

Small pieces of nucleic acid, known as siRNAs (short interfering RNAs), can turn off the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the more promising new classes of anticancer drugs in developmen...

28 Mar 2008

Cancer Tumors Targeted by Nanoparticles

As a wide variety of nanoparticles continue to demonstrate their ability to improve the delivery of imaging agents and drugs to tumors, nanoparticle researchers have turned their attention to the challenge of systematica...

28 Mar 2008

Nanoparticle Based Composite Coating for Plating Advanced Parts and Components

ApNano Materials, Inc, a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced that the pan-European FOREMOST consortium has completed the development of its first composite coating, based on ApNano Materials’...

28 Mar 2008

Russians Using Neutron Scanning to Search for Drugs, Explosives and Other Contraband Items

Specialists from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (town of Chernogolovka, Moscow Region), together with their colleagues from Joined Institute for Nuclear Research and the ASPECT Close Jo...

27 Mar 2008

Carbon Nanotube Company, Carbon Nanoprobes, Awarded Grant

The nanotechnology company Carbon Nanoprobes Inc. (CN Probes) was awarded an Industrial Incentive Grant from the Materials Research Institute of Penn State this week. The Materials Research Institute will provide funds f...

27 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Funding for Plextronics Research into Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Plextronics, Inc. announced today that after a competitive review of submitted proposals, the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center's Center's technical advisory committee and governing board approv...

26 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Tackles Balding as Nanomedicine Prototype Promotes Hair Growth

Luna Innovations have announced the discovery that a nanomedicine prototype aids in the growth of new hair follicles and may lead to a nanotechnology based treatment for baldness

26 Mar 2008

Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Funding for Companies using Nanotechnology to Develop New Products and Processes

The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center concluded its third round of funding for companies using nanotechnology to develop new products and processes. After a competitive review of submitted proposals,...

26 Mar 2008