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Tiny Gel Particles Attached with Nanobodies Perform the Functions of Platelets

NIBIB-supported researchers have created tiny gel particles that can perform the same essential functions as platelets. The particles could one day be used to control excessive bleeding following traumatic injury or in individuals with impaired clotting due to an inherited condition or as a result of certain medications or chemotherapy.

1 Jul 2015

High-Speed AFM Helps Image Physical Properties of Live Breast Cancer Cells

Researchers who developed a high-speed form of atomic force microscopy have shown how to image the physical properties of live breast cancer cells, for the first time revealing details about how deactivation of a key protein may lead to metastasis.

1 Jul 2015

Nanoparticles Packed with Chemotherapy and Coated with Chitosan Could Effectively Kill Cancer Stem-Like Cells

Nanoparticles packed with a clinically used chemotherapy drug and coated with an oligosaccharide derived from the carapace of crustaceans might effectively target and kill cancer stem-like cells, according to a recent study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James). Cancer stem-like cells have characteristics of stem cells and are present in very low numbers in tumors.

1 Jul 2015

UNSW Australian Centre for NanoMedicine Co-Hosts International Nanomedicine Conference 2015

Advances in nanotechnology and nano-fabrication are fundamentally changing the future of medicine, enabling more effective diagnostics and targeted drugs, and new bioactive materials that can help repair our bodies.

1 Jul 2015

Immune to License Yissum's Patents for Development of Topical Nano-Formulated AmiKet

Immune Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive license and research agreement with Yissum, the Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to license certain of Yissum's patents for the development and commercialization of a topical nano-formulated version of AmiKet, pursuant to the parties' existing binding memorandum of understanding from March 2015.

30 Jun 2015

Graphene Holds Promise as Sensitive Detector for Biological Molecules

Researchers from the HZB Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics have succeeded in accurately determining and controlling the thickness of an organic compound, which has been attached to a graphene layer. By this way, graphene could be used as a sensitive detector for biological molecules.

26 Jun 2015

Nanotechnology Drug in Droplets for Painless Treatment of Secondary Blindness

The Mexican company "Medical and Surgical Center for Retina" created a way to transport drugs, in order to avoid risks and painful treatments in people with secondary blindness due to chronic degenerative blindness such as diabetic retinopathy and degeneration of the eye. The innovative formula results eliminates the need to administrate the drug by intraocular injection.

26 Jun 2015

Encapsulated, Nanobody-Targeted Drugs Cold Help Treat Sleeping Sickness

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is considered fatal if untreated, but as it affects mostly poor people in low-income countries, treatment options are limited.

26 Jun 2015