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NanoMed Pharmaceuticals Elects Gabriel Leung to Board

NanoMed Pharmaceuticals has announced today that it has elected to its Board of Directors, Gabriel Leung, President, Oncology, at OSI Pharmaceuticals, a leading biotechnology company and maker of Tarceva. "We ar...

23 May 2007

Bioconjugated Quantum Dots for Multiplex and Quantitative Immunohistochemistry

Quantum dots linked to biological molecules, such as antibodies, have shown promise as a new tool for detecting and quantifying a wide variety of cancer-associated molecules. Now, thanks to detailed studies of how to mak...

23 May 2007

Nanoparticulate Delivery of Suicide DNA to Murine Prostate and Prostate Tumors

Using nanoparticles developed by members of the Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, a team of investigators at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, in Philadelphia, has developed a DNA-based therapeutic agent ...

23 May 2007

Nanoparticle Self-Assembly Gated by Logical Proteolytic Triggers

There is a growing recognition among cancer researchers that the most accurate methods for detecting early-stage cancer will require the development of sensitive assays that can identify simultaneously multiple biomarker...

23 May 2007

Analyzing Nanoparticle Levels in Blood

With the race to develop nanoparticle-based therapeutics and imaging agents for cancer applications moving at full speed, a small but growing group of researchers is quietly developing the methods that are needed to full...

23 May 2007

New Method Weighs Single Living Cells, Nanoparticles, Even Molecules

For the first time, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to measure the mass of single cells with high accuracy. The new technique, which uses microfluidics and a nanoscale device kno...

23 May 2007

Researchers Identify Better Blood Test For Prostate Cancer

New studies of a blood protein identified recently by investigators at Johns Hopkins University suggest that there may soon be changes in the way men are screened for prostate cancer - a disease that kills tens of thousa...

23 May 2007

Australian Nanotechnology Showcased at NSTI Nanotech Conference

Australian nanotech successes including the bionic ear, water treatment solutions, drug delivery treatments, rapid medical diagnostics, fuel cells, and thermally active granules-cleaning paints will be on show at the Aus...

22 May 2007

Scientists Step Toward Tiny Biological Computers

Researchers at Harvard University and Princeton University have made a crucial step toward building biological computers, tiny implantable devices that can monitor the activities and characteristics of human cells. The i...

22 May 2007

NanoBioNexus Team with Purplegold Media to Educate Public on Nanotechnology

NanoBioNexus, Inc. (NBN), a non-profit organization devoted to nanobiotechnology and acclaimed for its educational forums and community-building expertise, announces its collaboration agreement with London-based renowned...

22 May 2007