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Nanotechnology Deliver Combination Chemotherapy Directly to Prostate Cancer Cells

In recent years, studies have shown that for many types of cancer, combination drug therapy is more effective than single drugs. However, it is usually difficult to get the right amount of each drug to the tumor. Now, re...

26 Oct 2010

Tracking Tumor-Targeting Nanoparticles in the Body

Though targeted nanoparticle-based imaging agents and therapeutics for diagnosing and treating cancer are making their way to and through the clinical trials process, researchers still do not have a good understanding of...

26 Oct 2010

Joint Development Agreement for Highly Targeted Radiotherapy

Lumiphore Inc., a portfolio company of Nanostart AG, has signed a global cooperation with Algeta ASA (Oslo Stock Exchange, ticker: ALGETA), a leading company specializing in innovative radiopharmaceutical therapies to tr...

From Coreo AG 26 Oct 2010

Tekmira Releases Preclinical Data of siRNA Enabled by Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leader in RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, announced today that, together with collaborators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), it has published promising preclinical data in the prominent journal Cancer Research (Lee et al, Definition of Ubiquitination Modulator COP1 as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

26 Oct 2010

NanoBio Presents Positive Study Results of Intranasal Vaccine at GCGH Meeting

NanoBio Corporation today announced that company founder and chief executive officer James R. Baker, Jr. MD, will meet with renown scientists at the 6th Annual Grand Challenges in Global Health (GCGH) Meeting, taking place from Oct. 25-27 in Seattle, Wash., to present data illustrating the potential of the company’s nanoemulsion-based needle-free intranasal vaccine platform to alleviate the suffering caused by infectious diseases in developing countries.

From BlueWillow Biologics 26 Oct 2010

Development of Nanoscale Thin Film Using Oblique Angle Deposition

In nature, textured surfaces provide some plants the ability to trap insects and pollen, certain insects the ability to walk on water, and the gecko the ability to climb walls. Being able to mimic these features at a lar...

25 Oct 2010

Detecting and Treating Tumors with the Help of Gold Particles

Researchers at the MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands, are developing a method of detecting and treating tumors with the help of gold particles with dimensions measure in mere nanometres.

22 Oct 2010