 Nano-sized technology has super-sized effect on tumors April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Anyone facing chemotherapy would welcome an advance promising to dramatically reduce their dose of these often harsh drugs. Using nanotechnology, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in ... | |
Failed HIV Drug Gets Second Chance with Addition of Gold Nanoparticles May 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that adding tiny bits of gold to a failed HIV drug rekindle the drug's ability to stop the virus from invading the body's immune system. | |
Study Details How Platinum Nanocages 'Cook' Cancer Cells August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Platinum-based anticancer agents have a long history as proven therapeutic agents, but their toxicity and short lifetime in the body and the ability of tumors to develop resistance to these drugs limit the ultimate utility ... | |
Nanoreactors for reaction cascades August 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Living cells are highly complex synthetic machines: Numerous multistep reactions run simultaneously side by side and with unbelievable efficiency and specificity. For these mainly enzymatic reactions to work so well collectively, ... | |
Nanoengineers mine tiny diamonds for drug delivery October 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds -- much like the carbon structure as that of a sparkling 14 karat diamond but on a much smaller scale -- are very effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs ... | |
Nanotech researchers discover cancer cells 'feel' much softer than normal cells December 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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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. | |
Gold nanoparticle probes may allow earlier cancer detection December 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively. | |
 Scientists work toward engineered blood vessels December 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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MIT scientists have found a way to induce cells to form parallel tube-like structures that could one day serve as tiny engineered blood vessels. | |
 Nanotechnology innovation may revolutionize gene detection in a single cell January 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Scientists at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have developed the world’s first gene detection platform made up entirely from self-assembled DNA nanostructures. The results, appearing in the ... | |
Bacteria and nanofilters -- the future of clean water technology February 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Bacteria often get bad press, with those found in water often linked to illness and disease. But researchers at The University of Nottingham are using these tiny organisms alongside the very latest membrane filtration techniques ... | |
 Protein's strength lies in h-bond cooperation February 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT reveal that the strength of a biological material like spider silk lies in the specific geometric configuration of structural proteins, which have ... | |
New Nanotube Findings Give Boost to Potential Biomedical Applications February 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Carbon nanotubes have shown real promise as highly accurate vehicles for delivering antitumor agents into malignant cells, but a dearth of data about what happens to the tubes after they discharge their medical payloads has ... | |
 Carbon Nanotubes Help Fix Bones March 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Healing a broken bone is a lengthy and awkward process. The current, most effective way to repair bone tissue is to ensure correct positioning of the bone during healing, usually by use of a plaster cast or ... | |
Ivy uses nanoparticles to climb walls, chemists discover March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Ivy plants secrete nanoparticles to help them grip walls, US-based chemists have reported. | |
UCLA researchers design nanomachine that kills cancer cells April 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Researchers from the Nano Machine Center at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a novel type of nanomachine that can capture and store anticancer drugs inside tiny pores and release them into cancer ... | |
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