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Positively Charged Nanoparticles Improve Drug Delivery into Tumor Cells

A study released this week suggests that anti-cancer chemotherapies which use nanoparticles to deliver drugs deep inside tumor tissue will be more effective if the particles are positively electrically charged because they are taken up to a greater extent by proliferating cells, according to a team of chemists and chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

12 Apr 2010

Key Insights into Nanoarchitecture of Protein

Researchers in Singapore are reporting this week that they have gleaned key insights into the architecture of a protein that controls iron levels in almost all organisms.

12 Apr 2010

Researchers Collaborate to Investigate Effects of Nanoparticles on Microorganisms

Nanoparticles are already widely used in everyday products such as cosmetics, textiles, dyes, and paints.

12 Apr 2010

AuraSense Forms Advisory Board with Internationally Renowned Experts

AuraSense, a biotechnology company founded to pursue the unique therapeutic potential of engineered nanoparticles, announces the formation of their Advisory Board. The company is very fortunate to have engaged a set o...

12 Apr 2010

Researchers Use Virus to Assemble Nanoscale Components for Splitting Water Molecules

A team of MIT researchers has found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use the power of sunlight to split water and make chemical fuel to power their growth.

12 Apr 2010

New Methodology Helps to Recreate 30 Nanometer Fiber in Test Tube

NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have developed a powerful new method to investigate the discrete steps necessary to turn on individual genes and examine how the process goes wrong in cancer and other diseases.

12 Apr 2010

Cutting Edge Nanotechnology Process for Early and Rapid Diagnosis of Cancers

TCD scientists based at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), TCD School of Medicine, in collaboration with CRANN, will lead a pan-European team that has attracted funding worth approximately 12 Million Euros, to develop a cutting edge nanotechnology process which will enable the early and rapid diagnosis of most common cancer types.

9 Apr 2010

CRANN Awarded 15.5 Million Euros to Lead Two Major European Nanotechnology Research Projects

CRANN has been awarded 15.5 Million Euros in non-exchequer funding, following a competitive process, to lead two major European nano research projects which will create 17 R+D roles. In a move that will create 12 new...

9 Apr 2010

Nanoparticle Vaccine Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

Using a sophisticated nanotechnology-based "vaccine," researchers were able to successfully cure mice with type 1 diabetes and slow the onset of the disease in mice at risk for the disease. The study, co-fun...

9 Apr 2010

World’s Largest Particle Accelerator Achieves Highest Energy Collisions

The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator — a 17-mile loop under the Franco-Swiss border that was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to help scientists answer some of the most fundamental questions in physics.

8 Apr 2010