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Diatom Shells May Lead to Breakthrough in Nanofabrication of Computer Chips of the Future

Diatoms build their hard cell walls by laying down submicron-sized lines of silica. If we can genetically control that process, we would have a whole new way of performing the nanofabrication used to make computer chips

22 Jan 2008

Miniaturisation Takes DNA Testing from Cumbersome Machines to Portable Lab on a Chip Technology

Researchers in Hong Kong have miniaturized technology needed to perform the versatile polymerase chain reaction (PCR) - widely used in criminal investigations, disease diagnosis, and a range of other key applications. In...

22 Jan 2008

Drug Delivery Research Company, pSivida, Sells Food Industry Biosilicon Company, pSiNutria, to Intrinsiq

pSivida Limited and Intrinsiq Materials Cayman Limited today announced that the assets of SiNutria Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of pSivida, have been sold to Intrinsiq, a UK based venture capital company funded by ...

From EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 21 Jan 2008

Nanoencapsulation of Active Ingredients in Nutraceutical and Cosmeceutical Products Patented

eFoodSafety.com has developed a novel patented technology that has the ability to nano-encapsulate active ingredients in nutraceutical and cosmeceutical products and utilizes a unique food grade compound. This means that...

17 Jan 2008

Gold Nanoparticles Shine Brightly in Tumors

Solid gold nanoparticles have long been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and more recently have shown promise in treating various types of cancer. Now, thanks to work by Shuming Nie, Ph.D., and his colleagues at th...

17 Jan 2008

Nanotech Researchers Discover Cancer Cells "Feel" Much Softer Than Normal Cells

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), were able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples by utilizing a modified form of atomic...

17 Jan 2008

Nanoparticles Harvest Tumor Biomarkers

The long and challenging effort to find blood-borne markers for cancer and other diseases may soon enter a new realm of success using a new nanoparticle that preferentially and rapidly removes small proteins and other mo...

17 Jan 2008

Tumor-Associated Enzyme Triggers Drug Release From Nanoparticles

Cancer cells display a variety of proteins on their outer membranes that are not present on the surface of normal cells. Although these proteins are likely to be critical to the survival or metastatic spread of cance...

17 Jan 2008

Nanorod-Aptamer Combo Targets Tumors

Aptamers, short stretches of DNA or RNA that can act much like antibodies, have shown promise as targeting agents for selective nanoparticle trafficking to tumors. Their ability to recognize and bind to tumor-specifi...

17 Jan 2008

Polymeric Nanoparticles for Tumor Vaccines

The quest for an effective antitumor vaccine has received a boost from the results of work aimed at developing a nanoparticle that delivers tumor antigens to the immune system cells that trigger antibody production. ...

17 Jan 2008