 When it comes to risk, not all nanomaterials are created equal March 25, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The size, type, and dispersion of nanomaterials could all play a role in how these materials impact human health and the environment, according to two groups of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ... | |
Using life's building blocks to control nanoparticle assembly August 22, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Using DNA, the molecule that carries life’s genetic instructions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory are studying how to control both the speed of nanoparticle assembly and the structure ... | |
Nano-sized voltmeter measures electric fields deep within cells November 30, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky medical issues as ... | |
New nanoparticle vaccine is more effective but less expensive September 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fraction ... | |
Silica smart bombs deliver knock-out to bacteria February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Bacteria mutate for a living, evading antibiotic drugs while killing tens of thousands of people in the United States each year. But as concern about drug-resistant bacteria grows, one novel approach under way at the University ... | |
 Nanoparticle Could Help Detect Many Diseases Early August 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Most people think of hydrogen peroxide as a topical germ killer, but the medicine cabinet staple is gaining steam in the medical community as an early indicator of disease in the body. | |
 New nanotube findings give boost to potential biomedical applications January 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Carbon nanotubes-cylinders so tiny that it takes 50,000 lying side by side to equal the width of a human hair-are packed with the potential to be highly accurate vehicles for administering medicines and other ... | |
Astrotechnology Brings Nanoparticle Probes Into Sharper Focus March 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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While pondering the challenges of distinguishing one nanosize probe image from another in a mass of hundreds or thousands of nanoprobes, two investigators at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology made an ... | |
Nanobubbles Deliver Targeted Cancer Drugs Using Ultrasound July 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A new targeted drug delivery method uses ultrasound to image tumors, while also releasing the drug from "nanobubbles" into the tumor. | |
Double-Duty Nanoparticles Overcome Drug Resistance in Tumors June 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy. In fact, research suggests strongly that multidrug resistant cancer cells that remain alive after chemotherapy are responsible for the reappearance of tumors ... | |
 Yale scientists use nanotechnology to fight E. coli August 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the American Chemical ... | |
Scientists reveal DNA-enzyme interaction with first ever real time footage September 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a revolutionary Scanning ... | |
 Nanoscale tool allows scientists to study membrane proteins one at a time March 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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In biology, as in construction, it’s all about having tools that fit the job. Researchers at Rockefeller University have now created a tiny tool, more than 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human ... | |
Radio waves fire up nanotubes embedded in tumors, destroying liver cancer November 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Cancer cells treated with carbon nanotubes can be destroyed by non-invasive 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 ... | |
Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration June 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way. In two presentations at the NSTI Nanotech 2007 Conference, researchers describe the use of nanotechnology ... | |
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