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Assessing Cells' Disease-Fighting Performance Over Time

Coaxing a patient's own cells to hunt down and tackle infected or diseased cells is a promising therapeutic approach for many disorders. But until now, efforts to follow these specially modified cells after their rei...

18 Nov 2008

Company Announces Positive Results from Ongoing Clinical Study of its DNA Vaccine Delivered using Electroporation Technology

Inovio Biomedical Corporation, a leader in enabling the development of DNA vaccines using electroporation-based DNA delivery, announced today that its partner, Tripep AB, reported positive additional interim results from its ongoing phase I/II clinical study of its therapeutic DNA vaccine against hepatitis C virus (HCV).

17 Nov 2008

Capsulution Pharma Combines Modern Drug Delivery Technologies for Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier

The combination of the Berlin based drug delivery company Capsulution Nanoscience AG and the Magdeburg based biopharmaceutical company NanoDel Technologies GmbH under the name Capsulution Pharma AG creates a top-class co...

17 Nov 2008

NPL Unveils New Equipment Making Cancer Treatment Safer

New piece of medical technology unveiled at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) today will help improve the success rates of radiotherapy cancer treatments. The new clinical electron linear accelerator (linac) will he...

15 Nov 2008

Event Draws 300 Students to CNSE as Part of "NANOvember" Initiative

Building on the highly popular event that introduces elementary, middle- and high-school students to nanotechnology, more than 300 students received an up-close look at nanobioscience and nanomedicine while attending Nan...

15 Nov 2008

Nontoxic Nanoparticle Developed at Penn State is Proving to be an All-Around Effective Delivery System

Now a nontoxic nanoparticle developed by researchers at Penn State University is proving to be an all-around effective delivery system for both therapeutic drugs and the fluorescent dyes that can track their delivery.

14 Nov 2008

Project Aims to Commercialize Nanotechnology Manufacturing

UT Dallas researchers will play a key part in a collaborative effort to develop a new nano-scale manufacturing technique that builds three-dimensional objects atom by atom.

14 Nov 2008

Internationally Renowned Cancer Researcher Receives Innovator Award from DoD

A $3.8 million Innovator Award, from the Department of Defense, is being granted over five years to an internationally renowned cancer researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

14 Nov 2008

Senator Secures Millions in Funding for Research Projects on Nanotechnology

UT Southwestern Medical Center has received $1.2 million in appropriations from the Department of Defense for 2009. The funding adds to $2 million secured in 2007 and 2008 and will continue collaborative studies with UT ...

14 Nov 2008

Mysterious Microbe May Force Scientists to Rethink Ocean's Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles

An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. A paper describing the new findings appears in the November 14 issue of the journal Science.

14 Nov 2008