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Coated Nanoparticles Deliver Medications Through Body's Sticky Mucus

The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a way to c...

30 Jan 2007

New Type of Luminescent Nanoparticles

Researchers at UC Davis have created a new type of nanoparticles that could be used in tests for environmental pollution or contamination of food products, and for medical diagnostics. The particles, about 100 to 200 na...

30 Jan 2007

Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop DNA Nanotags

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have married bright fluorescent dye molecules with DNA nanostructure templates to make nanosized fluorescent labels that hold considerable promise for studying fundamental chemical a...

30 Jan 2007

MIT Studies Nanostructure of Concrete

While government leaders argue about the practicality of reducing world emissions of carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers are seeking ways to make it happen. One group of engineers at MIT decided to focus its work o...

30 Jan 2007

Buckyballs Ferry Drugs into Cancer Cells Safely

Scientists at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new type of buckyball nanoparticle that acts as a passkey, allowing peptide-based drugs to enter cancer cells. The new buckyballs, known a...

30 Jan 2007

Nanorods Create Stimulus-Triggered Gene Therapy Device

One approach to developing tumor-specific drug delivery agents is to create nanomaterials that release a therapeutic payload only after reaching their intended target. Researchers at the University of Aarhus, in Denm...

30 Jan 2007

Drug-Delivering Dendrimers Devolve on Demand

Dendrimers, highly branched, spherical polymers, have demonstrated their utility as drug and imaging agent delivery vehicles for use in detecting and treating cancer, with several dendrimer-based agents nearing human...

30 Jan 2007

Designing Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging

Molecular complexes containing the element gadolinium are proven agents for increasing the diagnostic utility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but their use in detecting small tumors is limited by the relatively ...

30 Jan 2007

Revolutionary New Nanotechnology-Based Lithium-Ion Battery

A123Systems, developer of a new generation of Lithium-ion batteries, today unveiled its technology and announced that it is delivering batteries with unprecedented power, safety, and life as compared to conventional Lith...

3 Nov 2005

Nanoxis Secure 1.75MSEK in Financing

Swedish nanotechnology firm, Nanoxis have secured 1.75MSEK in financing from Creandum KB, The Technology Link Foundation in Gothenburg, The Holding Company at The University of Goteburg and AB Chalmersinvest. Nanoxis is...

22 Sep 2003