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Delivering Molecules via Biodegradable Microspheres Enhances the Efficiency and Purity of Stem Cell Differentiation

New research shows that delivering molecules within aggregates of embryonic stem cells via biodegradable microspheres enhances the efficiency and purity of differentiation, which is the process the cells undergo to become more specialized.

10 Apr 2008

Researchers Develop New Model for Self Assembly of Nanoparticles

Carnegie Mellon University’s Nadine Aubry and colleague Pushpendra Singh of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) are leading a research team to develop a manufacturing strategy that could improve technolog...

8 Apr 2008

Nanogen and Thermo Fisher Team Up on Molecular Biology Products for Genetic Experiments

Nanogen, Inc., developer of molecular-biology and rapid diagnostic products, and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, have entered into an agreement in which Thermo Fisher will be the exclu...

From Nanogen 3 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Reduces Cancer Drug Dose, Increases Effect on Tumors

Anyone facing chemotherapy would welcome an advance promising to dramatically reduce their dose of these often harsh drugs. Using nanotechnology, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken a step closer to that goal.

3 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Help for Spinal Cord Injury with Nanoengineered Gel Promoting Nerve Growth

A spinal cord injury often leads to permanent paralysis and loss of sensation below the site of the injury because the damaged nerve fibers can't regenerate. The nerve fibers or axons have the capacity to grow again,...

3 Apr 2008

NanoDays and Television Bring Nanotechnology Understanding to the General Public

"Nanotechnology: The Power of Small" television series and NanoDays, educating the public about nanoscale science and engineering and its potential impacts

2 Apr 2008

Cancer Killing Machine Developed by Nanotechnology Researchers

Researchers from the Nano Machine Center at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a novel type of nanomachine that can capture and store anticancer drugs inside tiny pores and release them into canc...

2 Apr 2008

Researchers Make Nanosized, Softball Shaped Dodecahedron From DNA

For quite some time, DNA, the stuff our genes are made of, has also been considered the building material of choice for nanoscale objects. A nanotechnology research team has now made a dodecahedron (a geometric shape with twelve surfaces) from DNA building blocks.

2 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Researcher Urges Nanotech Industry to Adopt Green Chemistry Priciples

The time to implement green chemistry into nanotechnology is now says University of Oregon nanotech researcher

1 Apr 2008

Medical Imaging Tool Has A Resolution 1000 Times Greater Than Before

Doctors’ quest to see what is happening inside a living body has been hampered by the limits on detecting tiny components of internal structures and events. Now a team of Stanford University School of Medicine rese...

1 Apr 2008