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Unique Nanomechanical Signature Shows Promise to Improve Cancer Treatment

The texture of breast cancer tissue differs from that of healthy tissue. Using a cutting-edge tissue diagnostic device, a group of researchers in Basel, Switzerland, has determined one key difference: cancerous tissue is a mix of stiff and soft zones, whereas healthy tissue has uniform stiffness.

2 Feb 2013

New Approach Paves Way to Large-Scale Manufacturing of Graphene-Based Devices

A new way of growing graphene without the defects that weaken it and prevent electrons from flowing freely within it could open the way to large-scale manufacturing of graphene-based devices with applications in fields such as electronics, energy, and healthcare.

2 Feb 2013

New Approach to Nanodrug Delivery Helps Improve CNS Disorder Treatment

The treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases can be particularly challenging because many of the therapeutic agents such as recombinant proteins and gene medicines are not easily transported across the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

2 Feb 2013

New Technique Facilitates Rapid Scale-Up of Production and Testing of Biological Parts

The scientists, from Imperial College London, say their research brings them another step closer to a new kind of industrial revolution, where parts for these biological factories could be mass-produced. These factories have a wealth of applications including better drug delivery treatments for patients, enhancements in the way that minerals are mined from deep underground and advances in the production of biofuels.

2 Feb 2013

New Particle Assembly Technique Holds Potential to Improve Design of Industrial Products

New York University physicists have developed a method for moving microscopic particles with the flick of a light switch. Their work, reported in the journal Science, relies on a blue light to prompt colloids to move and then assemble—much like birds flock and move together in flight.

2 Feb 2013

Researchers Create Innovative Cardiac Tissue Patches Using Nanotechnology

On January 30, 2013 ACS Nano published a study by Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, MASc, a researcher in the division of biomedical engineering at Brigham and Women's Hospital, detailing the creation of innovative cardiac patches that utilize nanotechnology to enhance the conductivity of materials to induce cardiac tissue formation.

2 Feb 2013

Contipro Biotech Presents Novel Device for Nanofiber Production at Nano Tech 2013

The gates of the exhibition Nano Tech 2013 in Tokyo are wide open. One of the exhibitors, representing nanotechnology innovations from the Czech Republic, is Contipro Biotech, which is presenting the world premiere of its new device for the production of nanofibers, called 4SPIN®. The device is intended for the production of nanofibers suitable for use both in industry and medicine.

From Contipro 1 Feb 2013

Optofluidics Pre-Launches Molecular NanoTweezer System at SPIE Photonics West 2013

Optofluidics announces the pre-release of its Molecular NanoTweezer system - the most powerful optical trapping technology in the world – at SPIE Photonics West, BiOS and Biophysical Society annual meetings in Feb. 2013. Many thousands of times more powerful than the current state-of-the-art technology, the Molecular NanoTweezer allows rapid and automated handling of the smallest of particles including proteins, viruses, cells as well as inorganic nanoparticles.

1 Feb 2013

Nanoscale Coating for Self-Cleaning Surfaces

A recent discovery funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) may very well lead to a process that not only benefits every uniformed service member of the Department of Defense, but everyone else as we...

1 Feb 2013

Drug Delivery Using Camouflaged Nanoparticles

By cloaking nanoparticles in the membranes of white blood cells, scientists at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute may have found a way to prevent the body from recognizing and destroying them before they deliver their drug payloads. The group describes its "LeukoLike Vectors", or LLVs, in the January issue of Nature Nanotechnology.

1 Feb 2013

ALN-VSP Phase I Results Validate Efficacy of Tekmira's Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, announced today that complete study results have been published from a Phase I trial with ALN-VSP, a systemically delivered RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of advanced solid tumors with liver involvement, which utilizes Tekmira's lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology. ALN-VSP is being developed by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

1 Feb 2013

Texas A&M University Researchers Build Completely Organic Nanobrick Wall

Researchers at Texas A&M University have for the first time made a completely organic nanobrick wall that does not allow gas to pass through it.

1 Feb 2013

New Insights into Control of Plasma Behavior with Ultra-Thin Lithium Films on Graphite

The research of a multi-institutional team from the U.S., Japan, and France, led by Predrag S. Krstic of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences and Jean Paul Allain of Purdue University has answered the question of how the behavior of plasma—the extremely hot gases of nuclear fusion—can be controlled with ultra-thin lithium films on graphite walls lining thermonuclear magnetic fusion devices.

1 Feb 2013

New Template to Create Two-Dimensional Materials

It would be a terrible thing if laboratories striving to grow graphene from carbon atoms kept winding up with big pesky diamonds.

1 Feb 2013

Researchers Create 3D Microchip Using Nanotechnology

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created, for the first time, a new type of microchip which allows information to travel in three dimensions. Currently, microchips can only pass digital information in a very limited way - from either left to right or front to back. The research was published today, 31 January, in Nature.

1 Feb 2013

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Unique Nanomechanical Signature Shows Promise to Improve Cancer Treatment

New Approach Paves Way to Large-Scale Manufacturing of Graphene-Based Devices

New Approach to Nanodrug Delivery Helps Improve CNS Disorder Treatment

New Technique Facilitates Rapid Scale-Up of Production and Testing of Biological Parts

New Particle Assembly Technique Holds Potential to Improve Design of Industrial Products

Researchers Create Innovative Cardiac Tissue Patches Using Nanotechnology

Contipro Biotech Presents Novel Device for Nanofiber Production at Nano Tech 2013

Optofluidics Pre-Launches Molecular NanoTweezer System at SPIE Photonics West 2013

Nanoscale Coating for Self-Cleaning Surfaces

Drug Delivery Using Camouflaged Nanoparticles

ALN-VSP Phase I Results Validate Efficacy of Tekmira's Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

Texas A&M University Researchers Build Completely Organic Nanobrick Wall

New Insights into Control of Plasma Behavior with Ultra-Thin Lithium Films on Graphite

New Template to Create Two-Dimensional Materials

Researchers Create 3D Microchip Using Nanotechnology

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