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on July 7, 2007
A nano-sized light source capable of emitting coherent light across the visible spectrum has been invented by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory a...
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on June 19, 2007
In a study published in the June 28 issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, scinetists have developed a nanoparticle which can be used as a drug delivery device for treating glaucoma, an eye disea...
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on June 15, 2007
In a study published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers have shown that bacteria may be used to deliver "smart nanoparticles" into a cell to precisely position sensors, drugs or DNA for t...
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on April 24, 2007
A preliminary clinical trial has demonstrated that an intravenuously administered nanoparticle containing the FUS1 gene shows clinical activity in stage 4 Lung Cancer Patients. FUS1 can induce apoptos...
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on March 1, 2007
Gold nanoparticles has a huge potential in cancer detection and treatment: they could function as in vivo sensors, photoactive agents for optical imaging, drug carriers, contrast enhancers in computer...
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on January 17, 2007
In addition to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, there may now be an additional treatment modality for cancers: dual gene therapy.
In a preclinical study, two tumor-suppressing genes, packaged in...
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on November 27, 2006
A novel lab-on-a-chip has been developed to identify pneumonia-causing bacteria from bronchoalveolar lavage samples within hours, instead of days.
Inside the chip, the bacteria flow into several diffe...
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on November 14, 2006
Scientists have developed DNA-gold nanoparticle based detection kit for the detection of cocaine and other drugs in the saliva, urine or blood.
"Building upon our earlier work with lead (Pb) sens...
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on October 24, 2006
Engineers from the University of Alberta have developed a wireless microsensor to monitor the bone healing process after surgery. The device, which is permanently implanted on a joint, uses nanotechno...
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Researchers from MIT and Hong Kong University have discovered a peptide-containing solution that can be used to stop bleeding immediately i.e., less than 15 seconds. Although the exact mechanism of ac...
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