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Fluorescent Carbon Nanotubes for Medical Applications

In a way, nanotubes are nature’s smallest candles. These tiny tubes are constructed from carbon atoms and they are so small that it takes about 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human hair....

8 Jun 2007

Bioconjugated Quantum Dots Effectively Identify Biomarkers in Cancerous Tissues

Bioconjugated quantum dots – luminescent nanoparticles linked to biological molecules – have shown great promise as tools for disease diagnosis and treatment, but their medical use has been limited by the lac...

30 May 2007

EPA Needs to Take Immediate Action over Nanotechnology Oversight

Regulatory oversight of nanotechnology is urgently needed and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should act now, reports a new study released today. In EPA and Nanotechnology: Oversight for the 21st Century, forme...

23 May 2007

NanoBio Announces Positive Phase 1 Clinical Results for Topical Treatment for Onychomycosis

NanoBio Corporation today announced positive safety data from its Phase 1 clinical study of NB-002, the company's drug candidate currently in a Phase 2 clinical trial for the topical treatment of onychomycosis. T...

23 May 2007

Nanoparticulate Delivery of Suicide DNA to Murine Prostate and Prostate Tumors

Using nanoparticles developed by members of the Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, a team of investigators at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, in Philadelphia, has developed a DNA-based therapeutic agent ...

23 May 2007

siRNA Containing Nanoparticles Show Promise for Cancer Treatment

The use of targeted nanoparticles offers promising techniques for cancer treatment. Researchers in the laboratory of Mark E. Davis at the California Institute of Technology have been using small interfering RNA (siRNA), ...

22 May 2007

Green Nanotech Solutions for Cleaning Up the Environment

VeruTEK Technologies has launched and announced the availability of its patent-pending, green nanotech solutions for environmental remediation. VeruTEK’s S-ISCO and S-ESCO solutions remedy environmental contaminati...

18 May 2007

Chemists Use Nanotechnology to Penetrate Plant Cell Walls

A team of Iowa State University plant scientists and materials chemists have successfully used nanotechnology to penetrate plant cell walls and simultaneously deliver a gene and a chemical that triggers its expression wi...

18 May 2007

Nanotechnology Delivers Targeted Drug to Plant Cells

17 May 2007

Calando Pharmaceuticals to Begin Testing RNA/Oligonucleotide Nanoparticle Delivery Technology

Calando Pharmaceuticals, a leading siRNA therapeutics company and a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, together with City of Hope (COH) and the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center (UCLA), today announced...

14 May 2007