Building tumor balls for better drug discovery
Researchers 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
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Polymer cage stabilizes liposome, improves drug delivery
Researchers 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 moreCoated ultrasmall quantum dots suitable for in vivo imaging
Researchers 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 moreAntibody targeting boosts liposomal drug anticancer activity
The 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 moreRadio waves fire up nanotubes embedded in tumors, destroying liver cancer
Cancer 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 moreFirst winter school on nanotechnology begins at NIPER
The 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 moreEleventh Annual NSTI Nanotech 2008 final call for papers
The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) Nanotech 2008 Call for Papers will close December 6, 2007.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreChemists characterize Alzheimer's neurotoxin structure
Amyloid 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 moreWell-known Washington environmental editor and reporter joins nanotechnology project
Inside Washington's Colin Finan takes on communications and policy role.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreNanotech Northern Europe 2008 call for contributions
Nanotech 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 moreCancer study shows power of interdisciplinary approach
A 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 moreCompact, wavelength-on-demand Quantum Cascade Laser chip offers ultra-sensitive chemical sensing
Engineers 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 moreTethered to chip, energy supply that drives sperm could power nanobot
Presented at American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting.
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreSingapore sets up nanoscale measurement facility
Singapore 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
Read moreNanotechnology institute to be set up in Riyadh
King Abdullah has approved a proposal to set up a nanotechnology institute that will be named after him at a two million square meter facility in Riyadh Techno Valley. The institute will serve as an advanced technology research center for King Saud University (KSU).
Dec 3rd, 2007
Read moreUsing nanotechnology, cancer cells 'feel' much softer than normal cells
A multidisciplinary team of UCLA scientists were able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples using leading-edge nanotechnology that measures the softness of the cells.
Dec 2nd, 2007
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