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Findings Could Help in Developing Treatment for Pulmonary Disease using Nanotechnology

Using a real-time imaging system, scientists have tracked a group of near-infrared fluorescent nanoparticles from the airspaces of the lungs into the body and out again, providing a description of the characteristics and behavior of the particles that could be used in developing therapeutic agents to treat pulmonary disease.

13 Nov 2010

IRB Scientists Present World's Largest Data Base on Protein Motions

After four years of conducting intensive calculations in the supercomputer MareNostrum at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, scientists headed by Modesto Orozco at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelo...

12 Nov 2010

Nanotechnology and Personalized Cancer Treatment

NaturalNano, Inc. (Pink Sheets:NNAN) (Frankfurt:N3N), a materials science company focused on developing and commercializing advanced nanocomposites, announced that Andrew Hughes is presenting today research from Cornell ...

11 Nov 2010

Kylin Therapeutics Awarded $250,000 for pRNAi Nanoparticle Cancer Treatment Research

Officials of Kylin Therapeutics Inc. announces that they received a therapeutic discovery project grant from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that will advance the company's pRNAi nanoparticle cancer treatment research.

11 Nov 2010

EuroNanoMed to Provide €8 Million for Eight Nanomedicine Research Projects in Europe

EuroNanoMed, a European funding initiative under the ERA-Net scheme of the European Commission aimed at advancing transnational research in Nanomedicine, announced today the projects that will be funded following its 2nd joint transnational call for collaborative research projects.

11 Nov 2010

Nest for Nanotubes Helping Magnetic Resonance Imaging Become Better than Ever

A nest for nanotubes may help magnetic resonance imaging become better than ever at finding evidence of disease. Scientists at Rice University and other Texas Medical Center institutions and colleagues in Colorado, I...

10 Nov 2010

Grand Challenges Explorations Grant Awarded for Creative Nanoparticles-Based Contraceptive Gel

A vaginal gel that affords both contraception and HIV protection using nanoparticles that carry bee venom is one of the bold, unconventional ideas that won a 2010 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & M...

10 Nov 2010

Breakthrough in Gene Surgery Using Artificial Targeting Light Activated Nano Scissor

A cross-disciplinary Small Medicine and Advanced Research Translation (SMART) team led by Prof. Dar-Bin Shieh of Institute of Oral Medicine in Medical College at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, has...

10 Nov 2010

UNM Cancer Center Receives Funds to Expand Nanotechnology Capabilities

The National Cancer Institute recently announced two five-year awards totaling nearly $4 million for a partnership between the University of New Mexico Cancer Center and Sandia National Laboratories. One $1.95 million...

From Sandia National Laboratories 10 Nov 2010

Senior Scientific Secures QTDP Grants to Develop Nano-Enhanced Cancer Therapies

Manhattan Scientifics, Inc. (OTCBB: MHTX) announced that Senior Scientific LLC is the recipient of four grants totaling $702,899 awarded by the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Grant Program. The grants are funded by ...

From Manhattan Scientifics Inc. 9 Nov 2010