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by ruth on November 10, 2009
Researchers have discovered that nanospheres that are being used in drug delivery also have utility in repairing damaged nerve fibers in spinal cord injuries.
In animals with spinal cord injuries ...
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Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
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by ruth on May 30, 2008
Scientists have designed peptide-coated iron oxide nanoparticles that can seek out tumor cells and make detection using magnetic resonance imaging possible.
The team created peptide-coated iron oxide ...
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by Gloria Gamat on April 8, 2008
Nanotechnology is improving in leaps and bounds. Yes, including in the department of spinal cord injury.
Spinal cord injury can lead to paralysis, among others!
A spinal cord injury often leads to...
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by ruth on December 13, 2007
Researchers have discovered that the bacteria Shewanella can produce semiconducting nanotubes that may be useful in the creation of a new generation of nanoelectronic devices. This is the first report...
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by ruth on October 25, 2007
A Dutch researcher has developed biodegradable nanoparticles which may be used to encapsulate and deliver fat-soluble anticancer drugs.
The nanoparticles consist of polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains wh...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
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by ruth on September 25, 2007
A new topical lotion developed by NanoBio Corporation, a spin-off company from the University of Michigan, has been shown to penetrate deep enough to treat onychomycosis, or toenail fungus, without be...
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by ruth on September 12, 2007
The W.M. Keck Foundation has granted the University of Oregon $1.6 million to study the biological effects of exposure to precisely engineered nanoparticles that are being designed for diagnostic and...
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by ruth on August 27, 2007
Photo:Fluorescence picture showing uptake of nanoparticles labelled with red fluorescence taken up principally by tumor cells labelled with green microparticles. Few nanoparticles can be seen on the ...
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by ruth 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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by ruth 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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by ruth 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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by ruth 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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by ruth 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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by ruth 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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by ruth 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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by ruth 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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by ruth 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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by ruth on October 11, 2006
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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by ruth on September 26, 2006
Doctors at the Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester Medical Center are already using the PillCam ESO to help diagnose and monitor esophageal varices, a serious and common complicati...
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by ruth on September 7, 2006
Biopeer has the scoop on the latest diagnostic kits:
The Smart Shirt, a obile device for heart patients, is composed of stainless steel threads that can record an electrocardiogram and transmit it ov...
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by ruth on September 6, 2006
Chorolphyll is a pivotal molecule in the photosynthesis process. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, nanoscientists from the Ohio University were able to manipulate the configuration of the spinach...
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by ruth on August 2, 2006
Chitosan, a chitin-derived biopolymer found in crab shells, may be used as a key component in a new nanoscale sensor system that can detect minute quantities of explosives, bioagents, chemicals and ot...
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by ruth on March 21, 2006
Nanotechnologists at the University of Texas in Dallas have created an alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles, able to do 100 times greater w...
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by ruth on March 17, 2006
A more effective and safer way to detect and kill cancer cells have been discovered by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Francisco: by changing t...
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by ruth on March 16, 2006
The research team at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) created a rice-shaped particles of gold and iron oxide which they whimsically called "nanorice".
Nanoparticles...
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by ruth on March 8, 2006
Because of costly and complicated diagnostics and treatments, sleep science only has little to offer those with sleep problems. In this regard, researchers aim to drastically change this scenario with...
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by ruth on March 7, 2006
Northeastern University researchers headed by Assistant Professor Yung Joon Jung developed flexible hybrid composite structures using aligned multiwall carbon nanotube arrays in a poly (dimethylsiloxa...
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by ruth on March 6, 2006
The
Miniaturised Co-operative Robots Advancing Towards the Nano Range (MICRON) project headed by Institute for Process Control and Robotics (IPR) in Karlsruhe, Germany devised micro robots that can p...
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by ruth on February 25, 2006
What: Nanotechnology in Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Conference
When: April 25-27, 2006
Where: NH-Amsterdam Centre, Amsterdam
This two-day conference will bring together key decision makers and inte...
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by ruth on February 8, 2006
This entry is submitted by Gloria Gamat, via Creative Reporter.Polymer nanotubes that are unusually long (about 1 centimeter) as well as stable enough to maintain their shape indefinitely has been cre...
