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Nanotechnology Enables Image-Guided Breast Cancer Therapy

By combining an iron oxide nanoparticle, a tumor-targeting peptide, and a therapeutic nucleic acid into one construct, a team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have creat...

26 Oct 2010

Understanding How Cells Respond to Nanoparticles

Gold nanoparticles are showing real promise as vehicles for efficiently delivering therapeutic nucleic acids, such as disease-fighting genes and small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules, to tumors. Now, a team of investig...

26 Oct 2010

Nanotechnology Deliver Combination Chemotherapy Directly to Prostate Cancer Cells

In recent years, studies have shown that for many types of cancer, combination drug therapy is more effective than single drugs. However, it is usually difficult to get the right amount of each drug to the tumor. Now, re...

26 Oct 2010

Tracking Tumor-Targeting Nanoparticles in the Body

Though targeted nanoparticle-based imaging agents and therapeutics for diagnosing and treating cancer are making their way to and through the clinical trials process, researchers still do not have a good understanding of...

26 Oct 2010

Researchers Awarded Julius Springer Prize for Pioneering Achievements in Nanoscale Physics and Applications

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physical scientist Henri Lezec and Federico Capasso of Harvard have received the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2010 for their "pioneering achievements in nanoscale physics and applications."

26 Oct 2010

Neural Recording Capability Of Micrometer Sized VLS-Silicon Wires

In nanotechnology, the so-called vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) method is widely used for synthesizing a variety of one-dimensional wire-structures including carbon nanotubes, and metallic and semiconducting nanowires for fabricating nanodevices.

26 Oct 2010

Using Calcium Carbonate Templates to Assemble Uniformly Pure Protein Microparticles

Proteins are an interesting class of drugs because they demonstrate high biological activity and are highly specific in their effects. It has become possible to produce more and more proteins with tailored pharmacological properties; however transport and controlled release of the protein drugs in the body have remained a challenge.

26 Oct 2010

MicroRNA Detection Using Nanopores

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new electronic method for detecting microRNA isolated from living cells.

26 Oct 2010

Tekmira Releases Preclinical Data of siRNA Enabled by Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leader in RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, announced today that, together with collaborators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), it has published promising preclinical data in the prominent journal Cancer Research (Lee et al, Definition of Ubiquitination Modulator COP1 as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

26 Oct 2010

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Nanotechnology Enables Image-Guided Breast Cancer Therapy

Understanding How Cells Respond to Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology Deliver Combination Chemotherapy Directly to Prostate Cancer Cells

Tracking Tumor-Targeting Nanoparticles in the Body

Researchers Awarded Julius Springer Prize for Pioneering Achievements in Nanoscale Physics and Applications

Neural Recording Capability Of Micrometer Sized VLS-Silicon Wires

Using Calcium Carbonate Templates to Assemble Uniformly Pure Protein Microparticles

MicroRNA Detection Using Nanopores

Tekmira Releases Preclinical Data of siRNA Enabled by Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

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