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Nanomedicine Set to Improve and Enhance the Effectiveness of Injectable Drugs

In an article featured on the cover of the March issue of “Nature Nanotechnology,” Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston presented a proof-of-concept study on a new...

4 Mar 2008

Gold Becomes Magnetic at the Nano Level and May Be Used in Nanocatalysis and as Chemical and Electrical Sensors

Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale. They found that gold can change from nonmagnetic to magnetic and can be both a conductor and an insulator depending on changes at the nano level

4 Mar 2008

New Nanotube Findings Give Boost to Potential Biomedical Applications

Carbon nanotubes have shown real promise as highly accurate vehicles for delivering antitumor agents into malignant cells, but a dearth of data about what happens to the tubes after they discharge their medical payloads ...

4 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Advances Brain Cancer Detection and Therapy

Brain cancer is one of the most aggressive and lethal of malignancies, made even more difficult to treat by the fact that most anticancer drugs have a hard time even getting to the tumors. Now, studies by three differ...

4 Mar 2008

Targeted Dendrimer Advances in Preclinical Studies

Although a variety of nanoparticles continue to show promise for improving cancer imaging and therapy, regulators and drug developers are concerned that these delivery systems may prove difficult to manufacture on a cons...

4 Mar 2008

Microfluidics, Nanoparticles Drive Novel Cancer Detection Schemes

Early detection of tumors is one of the Holy Grails of cancer research, an achievement that would greatly improve cancer therapy and prognosis. Two new reports describe different but promising approaches to solving this ...

4 Mar 2008

Changing the Structure of Gold Nanoclusters and Making Magnetic Gold Nanowires

Nanowires of gold have been made magnetic through oxygenation.

4 Mar 2008

World First With Self Organising Carbon Nanotube Composites Suited for Use In High Temperature Electronics

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the successful formation of a new nano-scale carbon composite featuring a self-organizing structure, by combining carbon nanotubes and graphene which are both nano-scale carbon structures.

3 Mar 2008

Breast Cancer Testing and Diagnosis Using Nanoparticles to Make Tests Easier and Cheaper

A team from UCL has developed a new medical device which will make the early detection of breast cancer more cost effective and easier to administer.

3 Mar 2008

Nanotech Scientist Awarded as Outstanding Missourian

University of Missouri scientist Kattesh Katti recently discovered how to make gold nanoparticles using gold salts, soybeans and water. Katti’s research has garnered attention worldwide and the environmentally-frie...

29 Feb 2008