Nanomedicine News

RSS

Miniature Diagnostic Toolkit for Detecting and Treating Dementia

With the risk of developing dementia growing at an alarming pace, a University of Central Florida research team is working with the Boston University School of Medicine to develop a miniature diagnostic toolkit in the hopes of stimulating earlier detection and treatment.

29 Sep 2009

Coupling Electrosurgery with Mass Spectrometry for Real-Time Identification of Tumor Tissues

A significant advantage to this technique is that while a cut is being made, blood vessels are closed off and hemorrhaging eliminated. Now another advantage may be added as well: a German-Hungarian research team has developed a mass-spectrometry-based technique by which tissues can be analyzed during a surgical procedure.

29 Sep 2009

Researchers Successfully Develop Artificial Pore using Nanotechnology

Using an RNA-powered nanomotor, University of Cincinnati (UC) biomedical engineering researchers have successfully developed an artificial pore able to transmit nanoscale material through a membrane. In a study led by...

28 Sep 2009

Using Nanotechnology to Develop Microchip Sensitive Enough to Determine Cancer Type

U of T researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treat...

28 Sep 2009

Battlefield Pain Treatment Moves a Step Closer using Nanotechnology

University of Michigan scientists have developed a combination drug that promises a safer, more precise way for medics and fellow soldiers in battle situations to give a fallen soldier both morphine and a drug that limit...

24 Sep 2009

Nanomedicine Research Group Receives $5 Million Grant from NSERC

A nanomedicine research group led by a University of Toronto chemist has received a $5-million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), giving them the green light to develop fa...

24 Sep 2009

Founder of Liquidia Receives Top NIH Award

Liquidia Technologies today announced its founder, Dr. Joseph DeSimone, has received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award. Pioneer Awards are designed to support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering - and possibly transforming - approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

From Liquidia Technologies, Inc. 24 Sep 2009

NanoViricides CEO to Serve as Panelist at 2nd Annual Livingston Healthcare Summit

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), announced today that the Company's CEO, Eugene Seymour, MD, MPH has been invited as a panelist at the 2nd Annual Livingston Healthcare Summit on September 24th, 2009 in New York City.

From NanoViricides, Inc 24 Sep 2009

Scientist Awarded $1.5 Million to Develop Dramatically Improved Biomarker Research and Clinical Diagnostic Tools

An analytical chemist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. The award will support Wei-Jun Qian's drive to make new research and clinical diagnostic tools that are dramatically more sensitive, reliable and faster than current technologies.

24 Sep 2009

RainDance Technologies Expands Sequence Enrichment Solution Capabilities

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for health and human disease research, announced today it has expanded the capabilities of its Sequence Enrichment Solution to e...

From Bio-Rad Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 23 Sep 2009