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UC Santa Barbara Nanotechnology Researchers To Discuss Medical Applications of Nanotechnologies

UC Santa Barbara’s NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) are inviting the Santa Barbara community to attend a casual forum called "NanoCafé" t...

20 Jun 2007

Nano 50 Award For CytoViva

CytoViva, Inc., an optical microscopy company, announced that its Dual Mode Fluorescence (DMF) module has been selected as a Nano 50 Award recipient. The annual competition from the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs recogni...

20 Jun 2007

Miniaturised, Automatic Cancer Diagnosis From The FISH on a Chip

For the first time an important diagnostic test for cancer has been miniaturized and automated onto a microfluidic chip by a team of University of Alberta researchers in Edmonton, Canada. This new technology opens up ...

20 Jun 2007

World's Smallest Devices Carved With Electron Beam

Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania are using a new technique to craft some of the tiniest metal nanostructures ever created, none larger than 10 nanometers, or 10,000 times smaller than the width of a single hu...

19 Jun 2007

Nanoparticle Treatment For Glaucoma May Stop Millions Going Blind

A unique nanoparticle made in a laboratory at the University of Central Florida is proving promising as a drug delivery device for treating glaucoma, an eye disease that can cause blindness and affects millions of people...

19 Jun 2007

Novel Nanomachining Process for Nanoscale Devices

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered a novel nanomachining process that will help manufacturers produce superior nanoscale devices to perform import...

18 Jun 2007

Microcantilevers and Nanocantilevers - A Review of the Technology and Applications

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) have come into existence only in the last decade. Microcantilevers are the most simplified MEMS based devices. They are of significant interest as they have potential applications in...

18 Jun 2007

Double-Duty Nanoparticles Overcome Drug Resistance in Tumors

Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy. In fact, research suggests strongly that multidrug resistant cancer cells that remain alive after chemotherapy are responsible for the reappearance of ...

15 Jun 2007

Hybrid Gold-Dendrimer Nanoparticles Target and Image Tumors

Dendrimer nanoparticles, made of spherical, highly branched polymers, have shown promise as drug delivery vehicles capable of targeting tumors with large doses of anticancer drugs. Dendrimer nanoparticles have also been ...

15 Jun 2007

Phase I Clinical Trial Shows Nanoparticle-Enabled Thermal Therapy Safe for Treating Cancer

Several types of metal nanoparticles are capable of converting energy, such as that carried by near-infrared light or an oscillating magnetic field, into heat at a level high enough to kill tumors. Now, a recently comple...

15 Jun 2007