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Model Predicts Antibody Changes and Could Improve Drug Effectiveness

MIT researchers have developed a computer modeling approach that could improve a class of drugs based on antibodies, molecules key to the immune system. The model can predict structural changes in an antibody that will i...

24 Sep 2007

Nanotechnology Based Insulin Delivery System Detects Spikes in Glucose or Blood Sugar Levels and Releases Insulin to Counteract Them

Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston have announced pre-clinical test results in the September issue of the International Journal of Nanomedicine demonstrating ...

24 Sep 2007

Nanotech Spin Off Owes its Success to a Napkin

Some great inventions are birthed at a bar, their futures scribbled on cocktail napkins. Multi-pixel X-ray technology, the first substantial technological change in X-rays in more than a century, was born over a greasy P...

20 Sep 2007

Producing Tiny Factories From Micro Organisms

Microorganisms may soon be efficiently and inexpensively producing novel pharmaceutical compounds, such as flavonoids, that fight aging, cancer or obesity, as well as high-value chemicals, as the result of research being...

19 Sep 2007

Growing Stem Cells and Other Tissue in the Laboratory Like they Grow in the Human Body

Scientists have developed unique technology to grow stem cells and other tissue in the laboratory in conditions similar to the way they grow in the human body. The technology, developed and patented by scientists at D...

19 Sep 2007

Real Time Footage of the Nanoscale Interaction of an Enzyme, a DNA Strand and an Attacking Virus

For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a revolutionary ...

18 Sep 2007

Cheaper and More Effective Vaccine Using Nanoparticles

Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fra...

18 Sep 2007

Detecting and Curing Cancer With Nanoparticles and Nanobiosensors

One of the ultimate goals of medical researchers is to develop a method of curing cancer that is pain free, fast and has no side effects. Developments in the nanotechnology fields of nanobiosensors and nanoparticles may ...

14 Sep 2007

New Scientists to Join Argonne's NanoBio Interfaces Group

Two new scientists have joined the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Elena Rozhkova and Elena Shevchenko are contributing their expertise to the Nano...

From Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials 14 Sep 2007

Safety of Cosmetics Containing Nanoparticles Questioned at BA Festival of Science

Fears were expressed about the safety of some cosmetics at the BA Festival of Science in York on Wednesday. The products contain buckyballs – carbon molecules known as fullerenes – whose safety in cosmetic...

13 Sep 2007