If plants need light to perform the photosynthesis essential to their survival, how do they protect themselves against too much light? A joint CEA-CNRS research team at the Saclay Institute of Biology and Technology is currently exploring this question, in collaboration with several other teams at universities in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreA team of investigators has developed methods for loading gold nanoshells into precursor cells known as monocytes, which turn into macrophages in the tumor environment.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreResearchers have developed a microfluidics device that can form tumor spheroids in a large-scale, reproducible manner amenable to high-throughput drug screening protocols.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreResearchers have developed a method for stabilizing liposomes within a polymer cage. More importantly, the polymer cage is constructed to fall apart and trigger drug release from the liposome when taken into cells.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreResearchers at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have developed a new procedure that produces ultracompact quantum dots.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreThe first drug-loaded nanoparticle approved to treat cancer is in line for an upgrade. Researchers at Northeastern University have improved the tumor-killing activity of liposomal doxorubicin, known as Doxil.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreCancer cells treated with carbon nanotubes can be destroyed by noninvasive radio waves that heat up the nanotubes while sparing untreated tissue, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University has shown in preclinical experiments.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreThe five-day first winter school on nanotechnology in advanced drug delivery began on December 2 at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) at Mohali in Punjab.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreThe Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) Nanotech 2008 Call for Papers will close December 6, 2007.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreAmyloid plaques, the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, are clumps of fiber-like misfolded proteins which many experts think cause this devastating neurodegenerative disease.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreInside Washington's Colin Finan takes on communications and policy role.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreNanotech Northern Europe will take place in Copenhagen on September 23-25 2008. The event will feature many of the leading global figures in nanotechnology, from industry, research and the public sector.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreA UCLA cancer study reported in this month's Nature Nanotechnology validates earlier work by MIT engineers, and is emblematic of an explosion in research at the intersections of engineering, the life sciences and medicine, according to MIT Dean of Engineering Subra Suresh.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreEngineers from Harvard University have demonstrated a highly versatile, compact and portable Quantum Cascade Laser sensor for the fast detection of a large number of chemicals, ranging from infinitesimal traces of gases to liquids, by broad tuning of the emission wavelength.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read morePresented at American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreSingapore today joins the ranks of the advanced countries in being able to make minute measurements with atomic precision with the setting up of a new nano-scale measurement facility here.
Dec 3rd, 2007
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