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Breakthrough Paves the Way for On-the-Spot Medical Diagnostics

A European research project has shown how to build optical sensors directly into the structure of labs-on-chips. The breakthrough paves the way for on-the-spot medical diagnostics. People have been working on the &lsq...

13 Apr 2010

New Method to Identify Specific Molecules in Individual Cells

Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for identifying genetic variation, including mutations, in active genes. Hopes are strong that the method represents an important research tool that will l...

13 Apr 2010

New Imaging Approach Using Nanocages Enables Early Detection of Disease

New research findings suggest that an experimental ultrasensitive medical imaging technique that uses a pulsed laser and tiny metallic "nanocages" might enable both the early detection and treatment of disease.

13 Apr 2010

Astronomy and Nanotechnology Scientists Attract More than $2.5 Million in Fellowships

Research in the fields of astronomy and nanotechnology are among the Monash University projects recognised by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr as successful in the Australian Research Council's (ARC) Super Science Fellowship scheme.

12 Apr 2010

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