University of Surrey scientists have developed ‘intelligent’ nanoparticles capable of heating up to a temperature that is high enough to kill cancerous cells – but which self-regulate and then lose heat before they get hot enough to harm healthy tissue.
At an award ceremony at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna on October 19, Northwestern University’s Chad A. Mirkin was conferred a prestigious 2017 Wilhelm Exner Medal. He and CERN Director-General and particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti were each honored with a medal at the ceremony.
Envision is a nano-sized anti-cancer drug capable of destroying a breast tumor without damaging the surrounding tissue. Or imagine a self-healing skin graft developed from nanomaterials that treat the wounds of those with diabetes. These two biomedical technologies alone could be capable of greatly improving the quality of life for patients and saving millions in healthcare costs for Canadians.
In the future, the procedure of blowing into the tube will not just be used by police checking for alcohol intoxication, but it will also be applied for testing the condition of athletes and for people wanting to lose that extra bit of weight. ETH researchers have developed a sensor that allows carrying out measurements when the body begins to burn fat with a convenient breathalyzer.
Researchers have developed gold nanoparticles that can be coated to monitor the flow of blood in the smallest blood vessels inside the human body, where the size of the nanoparticles is not more than 100 nm.
With research headed by University of Queensland bioscience experts and funding provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the efforts to rid the world of polio have indeed taken another major step.
Chemical engineer and prolific inventor Robert S. Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- known as the “Edison of medicine” -- is the recipient of the $250,000 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine for 2017, Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology announced today (Sept. 27).
Combined photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapy for cancer was created by Sangyong Jon, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST, along with his team using Bilirubin (BR) nanoparticles.
Breast cancer that spreads usually infiltrates bone, causing fractures and severe pain. In such cases, chemotherapy is ineffective as the environment of the bone protects the tumor, even as the drug has toxic side effects elsewhere in the body.
A research team at the University of York has discovered that genes are regulated by unique structures called by ‘nano footballs’. Although these structures have similar appearance like footballs, they are 10 million times smaller than the average ball.
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