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Scientists Build Nano-Sized Traps to Control Prostate Cancer Metastasis

A team of researchers from across the world have developed nano-sized, self assembling nanomaterials made of peptides (SAP). The cultures were then used to house prostate cancer stem cells.

16 Mar 2011

Researchers Use Nanowhiskers to Create Skeletal Muscle Tissue

Researchers working at the University of Manchester have found that tiny whiskers of nanoscale sizes extracted from marine life could help develop muscle tissue for humans.

16 Mar 2011

Artificial Fluorescent Biomolecules for Medical Research

Proteins are natural biomolecules applicable in research on life science, biotechnology and medicine. The team led by Professor Arne Skerra from the TUM department of bio-chemistry has extended the genetic code to stress bacterial cells to emit customized proteins with artificial functions.

15 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop Instrument for Rapidly Analyzing Molecular Interactions

Researchers in Israel and California have designed an instrument to analyze molecular interactions occurring in viruses and the cells they infect.

14 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop Programmable Molecular Robot

Andrew Turberfield and his research team at the University of Oxford have built a programmable molecular robot, a molecular machine of sub-microscopic dimensions comprising artificial DNA. The genetic material travels amid track locations alienated by a distance of 6nm.

11 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop New System for Producing Nano Particles

Scientists from Brigham, MIT and Women’s Hospital have designed an innovative method of forming nanoparticles that are capable of distributing drugs for diseases like cancer.

11 Mar 2011

Motor Protein Impacts Sensing of Hearing

Nano-sized molecular motors that exist in the hair cells of the inner ear sense the vibrations of all sounds, whether loud like heavy metal being ground together or subtle and soothing sounds like those of the ocean.

10 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop Gold-Coated SERS Nanosubstrates for Medical Diagnostics

Gold-coated substrates of gallium nitride with specifically formed surface, developed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the PAS display worldwide unique properties.

3 Mar 2011

CNSE and Downstate Announce New Program in Nanoscale Medical Applications

In a pioneering initiative that will prepare a new generation of research physicians to be leaders in 21st century health care, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany and SUNY...

3 Mar 2011

New Research Shows Nanoparticle Surface Coating Has Great Influence on Immune System

Researchers have over time been able to show that medicine designed at nanoscale offers unprecedented opportunities for targeted treatment of serious diseases such as cancer. However, now research also shows that the ...

3 Mar 2011