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Killing Tumor Cells with Nanobees

When bees sting, they pump poison into their victims. Now the toxin in bee venom has been harnessed to kill tumor cells by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers attached th...

10 Aug 2009

Leading Biomedical Researcher Named New Director of Joint Center for Nanomedicine

The Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the University of California, Santa Barbara have named leading biomedical researcher Jamey D. Marth director of a new joint Center for Nanomedicine that will be established at UCSB.

10 Aug 2009

Researchers Develop New Light-Emitting Biomaterial for Improved Tumor Imaging

A new material developed at the University of Virginia - an oxygen nanosensor that couples a light-emitting dye with a biopolymer - simplifies the imaging of oxygen-deficient regions of tumors. Such tumors are associated...

10 Aug 2009

NanoViricides Announces Drug Candidate Reduces Herpes Simplex Viral Load by 99.99 Percent

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), announced today that the herpes simplex viral load was reduced by 99.99% or 10,000 fold in in-vitro studies by nanoviricides™ drug candidates.

From NanoViricides, Inc 10 Aug 2009

"Molecular Condom" Protecting Women from AIDS in Africa and Other Impoverished Areas

University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of "molecular condom" to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women would insert a vaginal gel that turns semisolid in the presence of semen, trapping AIDS virus particles in a microscopic mesh so they can't infect vaginal cells.

10 Aug 2009

New Technology Improving Cancer Research

A QUT researcher who has come up with a three-dimensional (3D) technology platform for biomedical research has received early-stage funding to accelerate the process of development to commercialisation.

9 Aug 2009

An Insight into How Fibrin Clots Behave from the Centimeter to the Nanometer Scale

Fibrin, the chief ingredient of blood clots, is a remarkably versatile polymer. On one hand, it forms a network of fibers -- a blood clot -- that stems the loss of blood at an injury site while remaining pliable and flexible.

7 Aug 2009

Nano Mask Announces Collaboration with Intrinsiq Materials

Nano Mask, Inc. (formerly Emergency Filtration Products, Inc.) announced that Nano Mask Inc. and Intrinsiq Materials, a private materials technology development company focused on health and wellness-related markets, wil...

From Intrinsiq Materials 7 Aug 2009

Controlled Positioning of Nucleic Acids on Gold Nanoparticles Creates New Possibilities for Bottom-Up Nanotechnology

Metal nanoparticles have radically different electronic, optical and magnetic properties from their larger states, which makes them useful as materials in new, ultra-small devices such as biological sensors. Constructing such devices, however, is difficult because, unlike atoms, nanoparticles lack directional bonds that allow them to be arranged precisely.

6 Aug 2009

Nanotherapeutics Announces NanoBUP Demonstrate Strong Oral Absorption in Phase Ia Clinical Trial

Nanotherapeutics, Inc., a privately held specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced that NanoBUP Oral Buprenorphine / Naloxone Capsule, for treating opiate addiction, demonstrated strong oral absorption in a Phase Ia...

From Nanotherapeutics Inc. 6 Aug 2009