 IBM brings MRI technology to the nanoscale April 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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IBM today announced that researchers at its Almaden Research Center have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to visualize nanoscale objects. This technique brings MRI capability to the ... | |
Mayo Clinic study explores link between nanoparticles and kidney stones December 19, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic have successfully isolated nanoparticles from human kidney stones in cell cultures and have isolated proteins, RNA and DNA that appear to be associated with nanoparticles. The findings, which appear ... | |
Pairing nanoparticles with proteins June 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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In groundbreaking research, scientists have demonstrated the ability to strategically attach gold nanoparticles -- particles on the order of billionths of a meter -- to proteins so as to form sheets of protein-gold arrays. | |
 Under magnetic force, nanoparticles may deliver gene therapy July 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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After binding DNA segments to tiny iron-containing spheres called nanoparticles, researchers have used magnetic fields to direct the nanoparticles into arterial muscle cells, where the DNA could have a therapeutic ... | |
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, ... | |
Radio Waves Fire Up Nanotubes Embedded in Tumors, Destroying Liver Cancer December 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Cancer cells treated with carbon nanotubes can be destroyed by noninvasive 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 ... | |
Coated Ultrasmall Quantum Dots Suitable for In Vivo Imaging December 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Quantum dots have shown promise in a variety of imaging and therapeutic applications, particularly when they are coated to render them biocompatible. However, such coating can increase the size of quantum dots signficantly, ... | |
An 'attractive' man-machine interface January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a new “nanobiotechnology” that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which could lead to finely-tuned but noninvasive ... | |
Holey Nanoparticles Create New Tumor Imaging and Therapeutic Agent July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Using a polymer that has both water-soluble and water-insoluble regions, a team of investigators from the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has created a nanoparticle shaped like a bialy, a close relative ... | |
 Nanotube-producing bacteria show manufacturing promise December 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Two engineers at the University of California, Riverside are part of a binational team that has found semiconducting nanotubes produced by living bacteria – a discovery that could help in the creation of a ... | |
Scientists demonstrate first use of nanotechnology to enter plant cells May 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A team of Iowa State University plant scientists and materials chemists have successfully used nanotechnology to penetrate plant cell walls and simultaneously deliver a gene and a chemical that triggers its expression with ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Gene silencer and quantum dots reduce protein production to a whisper June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
Nano technique allows precise injection of living cells June 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Specialized pulsed lasers have been used to inject individual cells with a variety of materials, but little is known about how this type of injection might affect living cells. For the first time, researchers at Rensselaer ... | |
Slipping through cell walls, nanotubes deliver high-potency punch to cancer tumors in mice August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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