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Study Reveals that Nanoparticles Interrupt Transport Mechanism in Cells

Researchers at the Norwegian Radium Hospital’s Centre of Cancer Biomedicine have demonstrated that the introduction and storing of nanoparticles within cells will have a detrimental effect on the transportation of critical substances into and out of the cells, resulting in unwanted changes in the physiology of the cells and their functioning.

26 Aug 2011

Discovery of Nanoscale Confinement Factor to Impact Future Nano-Device Design

A research team led by Roman Nowak, who serves at Aalto University’s Nordic Hysitron Laboratory, has discovered that materials such as silicon are brittle in larger sizes but when the material is of a nano-size, it can be squeezed into 50% of its size without causing breakage.

26 Aug 2011

London Centre for Nanotechnology Discovers Novel Technique to Draw Superconducting Shapes

The scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have invented a method to draw superconducting shapes utilizing an X-ray beam.

25 Aug 2011

Study on Peptide Nanoparticle-Based Gene Therapy for Lung Cancer Treatment

A research team led by Masaaki Tamura of Kansas State University in partnership with University of Kansas scientists is working on developing a patient-friendly lung cancer treatment process using nanoparticles.

24 Aug 2011

Cancer Cell Metabolism Study Enables Development of Selective and Efficient Cancer Therapies

Eytan Ruppin, who serves at Blavatnik School of Computer Science and Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel Aviv University, and his co-researchers have developed the cancer cell metabolism’s first computerized genome-size model that can be utilized to foresee the lethality of drugs affecting the functionality of the metabolism of a cancer cell.

23 Aug 2011

HMS Researchers Use Single-Molecule Imaging Technique to Study Cell Receptors Motion

Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have found that the cell’s structural elements are critical for controlling the movement of cell surface receptors, proteins that allow cells to get signals from different parts of the living organism.

20 Aug 2011

MIT Researchers Integrate Silica Nanoparticles in Poly Methyl Methacrylate

A new analysis on how tiny particles applied as coatings change transparent plastic’s characteristics pave the way for researchers to develop light-weight windows with almost the same strength as glass.

19 Aug 2011

Researchers Develop Simple and Scalable Method to Arrange Gold Nanorods

North Carolina State University scientists have developed a scalable and easy method to arrange gold nanorods utilizing electrospun polymer known as‘nano/microfibers.’

From North Carolina State University 19 Aug 2011

Researchers Develop Straight Carbon Nanofibers on Transparent Substrate

North Carolina State University researchers have identified a novel technique to grow straight carbon nanofibers atop a transparent substrate.

18 Aug 2011

NAQS Orders Bruker’s Triple-Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry Systems

Bruker, a provider of superior-performance scientific solutions and instruments for materials and molecular research, has declared that the Korean National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service (NAQS) has placed an order for six of its triple-quadrupole gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) systems, to monitor agricultural products and to analyze pesticide residue at the combined 8th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry (KSMS) and the 2nd Asian & Oceanic Mass Spectrometry Conference (AOMSC) conducted in Busan, Korea.

18 Aug 2011