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OmegaGenesis Unveils Novel Technology for Nanomaterials Offering Broad Medical Applications

New Company Founded on Mayo Clinic Discoveries is Developing Therapies for Wounds, Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Hair Growth Using Nano-Materials with Angiogenic Properties. OmegaGenesis today unveiled the company's novel...

From OmegaGenesis 16 Dec 2008

NanoViricides Present Lecture on Nanomedicine at International Conference on Nano-Materials and Applications

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB), said that Anil R. Diwan, Ph.D., Company President, was invited to present a lecture on nanomedicines and nanoviricides at the International Conference on Nano-Materials and Applicat...

From NanoViricides, Inc 15 Dec 2008

European Union Invests 2.6 million to Examine Saftey of Nanoparticle Products

Scientists are to examine the potential dangers of "nanoparticles" in everyday products such as sunscreen in a ?.6 million project funded by the European Union. Dr Anddrew Nelson, a chemist at the University of Leeds,...

15 Dec 2008

Discovery of Nano Rapid Transit System for Delivery of Nanoparticles

In 2004, Gunter Oberdorster and colleagues demonstrated that upon inhalation, ultrafine particles, the dimensions of which are measured in nanometers, can move from the nasal passages of rodents to the brain via a specia...

14 Dec 2008

Researchers Overcome Challenges with Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Production

Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material

14 Dec 2008

Carbon Nanotube Sensor Capable of Seeking Out Cancer Cells in the Body

MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The sensors, made of carbon nanotubes wrapped in DNA, can detect chemotherapy drugs such a...

14 Dec 2008

India Vice President Inaugurates the "Bangalore Nano 2008"

Delivering inaugural address the Vice President said that the challenge is to focus on what Nano science and technology can do for the masses of India. With a significant portion of our population dependent on agriculture, we must ask if Nano technological applications can improve the efficiencies and output in that sector?

14 Dec 2008

Creating Virus-Like Particle-Based Vaccines More Quickly and Accurately than Previously Possible

In a pioneering effort, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Queensland in Australia have successfully demonstrated* that they can count, size and gauge the quality of virus-like particle-based (VLP) vaccines much more quickly and accurately than previously possible.

11 Dec 2008

Partial-Wave Spectroscopy Detecting Nanoscale Changes in Cells

A team led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has developed a new optical technique that holds promise for minimally invasive screening methods for the early diagnosis of cancer. The researchers have sho...

11 Dec 2008

Research May Lead to a New Class of Specialty Plastics

Tomorrow's specialty plastics may be produced more precisely and cheaply thanks to the apparently tight merger of a theory by a University of Oregon chemist and years of unexplained data from real world experiments involving polymers in Europe.

11 Dec 2008