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Polymers Nanoparticles Inhibit Nonspecific Protein Absorption

One problem that confounds researchers who are developing nanoparticles for use as cancer imaging and therapeutic agents is that many nanoparticles accumulate blood proteins on their surfaces as they circulate through th...

21 Apr 2008

Prostate Cancer and Kidney Cancer Spread Tracked with Nanotechnology and Iron Nanoparticles

Iron nanoparticles designed to collect in lymph nodes containing metastatic cancer cells have proven that they can help physicians detect metastatic spread of prostate cancer. Now, a team of investigators at Harvard Medi...

21 Apr 2008

Pancreatic Cancer Revealed Using Nanosized Rods

Quantum dots have shown promise as ultrabright contrast agents for use in a variety of cancer imaging studies. Now, a team of investigators at the Multifunctional Nanoparticles in Diagnosis and Therapy of Pancreatic Canc...

21 Apr 2008

Using Nanotechnology and Nanoparticle Based Imaging to Produce Whole Body Images Showing Cancer Tumor Locations

Researchers have published a paper that describes a strategy for
small-animal optical imaging based on Raman spectroscopy and
Raman nanoparticles. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanoparticles
and single-wall carbon nanotubes were used to demonstrate
whole-body Raman imaging, nanoparticle pharmacokinetics,
multiplexing, and in vivo tumor targeting, using an imaging
system adapted for small-animal Raman imaging.

21 Apr 2008

Cancer Detection and Therapy to be Enhanced With Fluorine Based Nanoparticles

Perfluorocarbons, a class of inert, oily polymers, have a proven track record in a variety of clinical uses, including in contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging and in eye surgery to correct a detached retina. Researchers ...

21 Apr 2008

Thermoelectric Material Uses Waste Heat to Produce More Efficient and Greener Electrical Appliances

GMZ Energy has announced the availability of a breakthrough material designed for a new generation of cleaner, more energy-efficient products. The new thermoelectric material, nanotechnology-based and environmentally fri...

21 Apr 2008

Europe Spending Twice as Much as USA on Nanotechnology Risk Research

A new analysis by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) indicates that European nations are investing nearly twice as much as the U.S. in research primarily aimed at addressing the potential risks of nanotechnol...

21 Apr 2008

Resolution Testing and Calibration Samples for Scanning Electron Microscopes

Agar Scientific provides a broad range of tin on carbon and gold on carbon SEM resolution test specimens which have been specially developed in their laboratory for SEM and FEGSEM resolution testing and calibration.

21 Apr 2008

Self Repairing Materials Use Tiny Technologies to Fix Themselves

Will the day come when cracks in buildings close up without external help and before they get to the stage where they cause damage to the component? This might appear utopia, but it already occurs in nature. When a person suffers a minor wound, the human body reacts to close the opening, sending the blood platelets needed to the affected area – and with no need in many cases for any external coagulant substance to be employed.

18 Apr 2008

Nano Sized Magnets to Offer Gene Therapy Treatment for Cancer

A revolutionary cancer treatment using microscopic magnets to enable 'armed' human cells to target tumours has been developed by researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (B...

18 Apr 2008

Scientists Now Understand What is Behind the Pollution Threat of Plutonium Nanoclusters

For almost half a century, scientists have struggled with plutonium contamination spreading further in groundwater than expected, increasing the risk of sickness in humans and animals. It was known nanometer sized clu...

18 Apr 2008

Physicists Ask What Happens When You Pop a Quantum Balloon

When a tiny, quantum-scale, hypothetical balloon is popped in a vacuum, do the particles inside spread out all over the place as predicted by classical mechanics" The question is deceptively complex, since quantu...

18 Apr 2008

Smaller, Faster and Cheaper Electronics the Result of Nanotechnology Research Discovering Electricity Conducting Carbon Molecules

University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic—or carbon-based—molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain circumstances and, in turn, conduct electricity as well as met...

18 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Researchers Use Graphene to Create the World's Smallest Transistor

Researchers have used the world’s thinnest material to create the world’s smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide. Reporting their peer-reviewed findings in the latest issue of the journal S...

18 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Company pSivida Proposing to Reincorporate in the US

pSivida Limited today announced that it proposes to reincorporate in the United States. The reincorporation, which is subject to Australian Federal Court and shareholder approval, will occur in mid-2008. This reincorpora...

From EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 18 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology News

Polymers Nanoparticles Inhibit Nonspecific Protein Absorption

Prostate Cancer and Kidney Cancer Spread Tracked with Nanotechnology and Iron Nanoparticles

Pancreatic Cancer Revealed Using Nanosized Rods

Using Nanotechnology and Nanoparticle Based Imaging to Produce Whole Body Images Showing Cancer Tumor Locations

Cancer Detection and Therapy to be Enhanced With Fluorine Based Nanoparticles

Thermoelectric Material Uses Waste Heat to Produce More Efficient and Greener Electrical Appliances

Europe Spending Twice as Much as USA on Nanotechnology Risk Research

Resolution Testing and Calibration Samples for Scanning Electron Microscopes

Self Repairing Materials Use Tiny Technologies to Fix Themselves

Nano Sized Magnets to Offer Gene Therapy Treatment for Cancer

Scientists Now Understand What is Behind the Pollution Threat of Plutonium Nanoclusters

Physicists Ask What Happens When You Pop a Quantum Balloon

Smaller, Faster and Cheaper Electronics the Result of Nanotechnology Research Discovering Electricity Conducting Carbon Molecules

Nanotechnology Researchers Use Graphene to Create the World's Smallest Transistor

Nanotechnology Company pSivida Proposing to Reincorporate in the US

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Application of Nanoparticles in Cancer Treatment

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