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Tiny Machines with Aptitude to Work Inside the Human Body Could be Built

"Nature has some million years of experience. It seems like a good idea to make use of this fact", says Holger Stark. Indeed, the Professor for theoretical physics at the Technical University of Berlin is engag...

14 Jan 2010

Findings Show Few Components in Ribosome's Reaction Center that Induce Catalytic Effect

When ribosomes produce protein in all living cells, they do so through a chemical reaction that happens so fast that scientists have been puzzled. Using large quantum mechanical calculations of the reaction center of the...

13 Jan 2010

Company Licenses Polypeptide Nanoparticle Technology Invented University of Maryland Professor

Sirnaomics, Inc. announced today that the company has licensed a polypeptide nanoparticle technology invented by Professor A. James Mixson of University of Maryland Medical School. The licensing agreement grants Sirnaomi...

13 Jan 2010

Startup Company Recevies Approval to Begin Clinical Trials on Novel Wireless Body-Monitoring System

MediSens Wireless, a startup company in UCLA's on-campus technology incubator at the California NanoSystems Institute, has obtained approval under federal Food and Drug Administration guidelines to begin clinical tri...

13 Jan 2010

"Cocktail" of Different Nanoparticles Locating and Killing Cancerous Tumors

A team of researchers from two of the National Cancer Institute's Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence have teamed up to develop a "cocktail" of different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within the bloodstream to locate, adhere to and kill cancerous tumors.

13 Jan 2010

Nanotechnology-Enabled Devices Grabbing Cancer Cells in Blood

Just as fly paper captures insects, a pair of nanotechnology-enabled devices are able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor. These cells, known as circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, can provi...

13 Jan 2010

Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Detecting and Destroying Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

Single-walled carbon nanotubes have been highly touted for their potential as novel delivery agents for cancer detection and therapeutic agents. Now, a team of investigators from six institutions have created a multifunc...

13 Jan 2010

Nanoparticles Delivering Drug Payloads to the Correct Intracellular Compartments

A variety of nanoparticles have shown to be effective in delivering cancer drugs more directly to tumor cells, mitigating the damage to nearby healthy cells. Now, researchers from Purdue University have demonstrated that...

13 Jan 2010

Using Nanosensors to Measure Cancer Biomarkers in Whole Blood

A multi-institutional team led by Yale University researchers has used nanosensors to measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time. Their findings, which appear in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, could ...

13 Jan 2010

Nanoscale Optical Fibers to Detect Bioterrorist Agents

In an age when bacterial agents may be intentionally released as method of terrorist attack, there is an increased need for quick diagnostic methods that require limited resources and personnel. Thomas Inzana, the Tyler ...

12 Jan 2010