 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 ... | |
Shape, not just size, impacts effectiveness of emerging nanomedicine therapies August 04, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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In the budding field of nanotechnology, scientists already know that size does matter. But now, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that shape matters even more — a finding that could ... | |
 Nanodiamond drug device could transform cancer treatment October 02, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically ... | |
Nano-sized voltmeter measures electric fields deep within cells November 30, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 25 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 ... | |
Study Details How Platinum Nanocages 'Cook' Cancer Cells August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 21 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 ... | |
 Researchers develop nano-sized 'cargo ships' to target and destroy tumors September 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body's immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer ... | |
 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. | |
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 ... | |
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