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Carbon Nanotube Sensor Capable of Seeking Out Cancer Cells in the Body

MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The sensors, made of carbon nanotubes wrapped in DNA, can detect chemotherapy drugs such a...

14 Dec 2008

India Vice President Inaugurates the "Bangalore Nano 2008"

Delivering inaugural address the Vice President said that the challenge is to focus on what Nano science and technology can do for the masses of India. With a significant portion of our population dependent on agriculture, we must ask if Nano technological applications can improve the efficiencies and output in that sector?

14 Dec 2008

Creating Virus-Like Particle-Based Vaccines More Quickly and Accurately than Previously Possible

In a pioneering effort, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Queensland in Australia have successfully demonstrated* that they can count, size and gauge the quality of virus-like particle-based (VLP) vaccines much more quickly and accurately than previously possible.

11 Dec 2008

Partial-Wave Spectroscopy Detecting Nanoscale Changes in Cells

A team led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has developed a new optical technique that holds promise for minimally invasive screening methods for the early diagnosis of cancer. The researchers have sho...

11 Dec 2008

Research May Lead to a New Class of Specialty Plastics

Tomorrow's specialty plastics may be produced more precisely and cheaply thanks to the apparently tight merger of a theory by a University of Oregon chemist and years of unexplained data from real world experiments involving polymers in Europe.

11 Dec 2008

Nano-Encapsulated Drug Delivery Vehicle Having Big Impact on Cancer Cells

Researchers at Penn State University are reporting for the first time that nanoparticles 1/5,000 the diameter of a human hair encapsulating an experimental anticancer agent, kill human melanoma and drug-resistant breast ...

10 Dec 2008

Using the Latest in Nanotechnology to Design Nanoparticles Capable of Detecting and Locating Tumours

A new European research project will use the latest techniques in nanotechnology to design nanoparticles capable of detecting and locating tumours. Once located, these super-small 'nanites' will also have the capacity to attack and neutralise the tumour.

9 Dec 2008

Nanomedicine News

Carbon Nanotube Sensor Capable of Seeking Out Cancer Cells in the Body

India Vice President Inaugurates the "Bangalore Nano 2008"

Creating Virus-Like Particle-Based Vaccines More Quickly and Accurately than Previously Possible

Partial-Wave Spectroscopy Detecting Nanoscale Changes in Cells

Research May Lead to a New Class of Specialty Plastics

Nano-Encapsulated Drug Delivery Vehicle Having Big Impact on Cancer Cells

Using the Latest in Nanotechnology to Design Nanoparticles Capable of Detecting and Locating Tumours

RainDance Technologies Delivers RDT 1000 and Sequence Enrichment Solution to Broad Institute

Cutting-Edge Science Explains How Santa Able to Deliver Toys to Good Girls and Boys Around the World in One Night

New Project to Discover Organic Materials to Create More Efficient and Lower Cost Solar Cell

Revolutionizing Regenerative Medicine: Groundbreaking Biomaterial for Tissue Growth

Breakthrough Nanoparticle Targets Breast Cancer and Brain Tumors

High-Resolution Microscope Reveals Electron Behavior in Graphene

Synthesis of Transparent Polyimide Nanocomposites with Organoclay Fillers

New Nanocomposite Recipe for High-Performance Metasurfaces

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

Applying AI-Driven Solutions to Semiconductor Digital Design

Redux AFM: Expanding Access to Automated Nanoscale Imaging

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