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Stripes key to nanoparticle drug delivery

June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | No comments yet

In work that could at the same time impact the delivery of drugs and explain a biological mystery, MIT engineers have created the first synthetic nanoparticles that can penetrate a cell without poking a hole ...


Chemists Create Cancer-Detecting Nanoparticles

June 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be a doctor’s best friend for detecting a tumor in the body without resorting to surgery. MRI scans use pulses of magnetic waves and gauge the return signals to identify different types ...


Carbon Nanotubes Compromise the Functions of Certain Protozoa, Study Shows

June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | User comments: 3

A new study by researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, hints that carbon nanotubes may be toxic to microorganisms. When cultures of a certain key protozoan, a single-cell organism, ...


Gene silencer and quantum dots reduce protein production to a whisper

June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 25 vote(s) | User comments: 1

More than 15 years ago scientists discovered a way to stop a particular gene in its tracks. The Nobel Prize-winning finding holds tantalizing promise for medical science, but so far it has been difficult to ...


Overcoming Drug Resistance—Nanoparticles Trigger Built-In Cell-Death Signal

June 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 1

One of the most vexing problems in treating cancer is the propensity of tumors to develop resistance to a wide range of anticancer drugs. Over 70 percent of ovarian cancer patients, for example, have drug-resistant tumors ...


Super strong antimicrobial coatings for medicine, defense

July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | User comments: 1

One of the world' strongest materials meets one of Nature's most powerful germ killers in a new research project that produced incredibly tough anti-bacterial surfaces with multiple applications in home appliances, ...


Growing use of nanomaterials spurs research to investigate possible downsides

June 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Potential risks from the use of nanomaterials will be explored by three Arizona State University engineering faculty in a project supported by a $400,000 grant from the U.S.Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental ...