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Nanoparticles Simultaneously Track as Many as 10 Different Optical Tags in Living Animal

Using nanoparticles designed specifically to produce a bright Raman spectroscopic signal, a team of investigators at the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response (Stanford University Center...

28 Aug 2009

Nanoflares Providing Highly Sensitive Method of Tracking Complex Biochemical Processes in Real Time

By combining a gold nanoparticle with a unique family of nucleic acids, researchers at Northwestern University have created a new type of intracellular reporting system that with a flash of light reveals the presence and...

28 Aug 2009

EnerG2 Announces Effort Designed to Help Broaden Ultracapacitor Market in Japan

EnerG2, a Seattle-based company focused on introducing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage breakthroughs, today announced an effort designed to help broaden the ultracapacitor market in Japan.

From EnerG2 28 Aug 2009

Killing Kidney Tumors with Nanotubes

By injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second zap of a laser, a multi-institutional team of researchers from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSOM...

28 Aug 2009

"Acoustic Tweezers" Enable Flexible On-Chip Manipulation and Patterning of Cells Using Acoustic Waves

Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough to place on a chip, according to Penn State engineers.

28 Aug 2009

Nanoparticle-Delivered Suicide Gene Therapy Could Fight Ovarian Cancer

Nanoparticle delivery of diphtheria toxin-encoding DNA that expresses selectively in ovarian cancer cells reduced the burden of ovarian tumors in mice, and researchers expect that this therapy could be tested in humans w...

28 Aug 2009

Paramagnetic Nanoparticle Rapidly Detects and Profiles Cancer Cells

Using a new type of paramagnetic nanoparticle and a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system built into a microfluidic device, a team of investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has c...

28 Aug 2009

Researchers Assembled New Cancer Drug Delivery System

For cancer drug developers, finding an agent that kills tumor cells is only part of the equation. The drug also must spare healthy cells, and ideally its effects will be reversible to cut short any potentially dangerous side effects.

28 Aug 2009

Malvern Releases White Paper "10 Ways to Control Rheology by Changing Particle Properties"

'10 ways to control rheology by changing particle properties' is the latest addition to Malvern Panalytical' INFORM series of white papers, which are designed to provide advice on material characterization issues.

From Malvern Panalytical 28 Aug 2009

Scientists Image "Anatomy" of a Molecule using Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have been able to image the "anatomy" -- or chemical structure -- inside a molecule with unprecedented resolution, using a complex technique known as noncontact atomic force microscopy.

28 Aug 2009