Nano-sized 'trojan horse' to aid nutrition August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Researchers from Monash University have designed a nano-sized "trojan horse" particle to ensure healing antioxidants can be better absorbed by the human body. | |
Unregulated nanoparticles from diesel engines inhibit lungs August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Diesel engines emit countless carbon nanoparticles into the air, slipping through government regulation and vehicle filters. A new University of Michigan simulation shows that these nanoparticles can get ... | |
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 ... | |
Dual-Mode Nanoparticles Image Tumors Using MRI and PET August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Medical imaging represents one of the most used and useful procedures in the oncologist’s diagnostic toolkit, even though each of the most useful techniques—magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerized tomography x-ray ... | |
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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(PhysOrg.com) -- The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process. Hence the value of the more surgical flyswatter. | |
Scientists overcome nanotech hurdle August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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When you make a new material on a nanoscale how can you see what you have made? A team lead by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences research Council (BBSRC) fellow has made a significant step toward overcoming this major ... | |
Nano vaccine for hepatitis B shows promise for third world August 13, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Chronic hepatitis B infects 400 million people worldwide, many of them children. Even with three effective vaccines available, hepatitis B remains a stubborn, unrelenting health problem, especially in Africa and other developing ... | |
 Carbon Nanotube-Coated Electrodes Improve Brain Readouts August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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A research group has significantly improved the quality of brain-function measurements by coating metal neural electrodes with carbon nanotubes. Their work could potentially allow scientists to learn more ... | |
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 ... | |
New disease-fighting nanoparticles look like miniature pastries July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Ultra-miniature bialy-shaped particles — called nanobialys because they resemble tiny versions of the flat, onion-topped rolls popular in New York City — could soon be carrying medicinal compounds through patients' bloodstreams ... | |
Nanoparticles + light = dead tumor cells July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Medical physicists at the University of Virginia have created a novel way to kill tumor cells using nanoparticles and light. The technique, devised by Wensha Yang, an instructor in radiation oncology at the University of ... | |
Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ... | |
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 ... | |
Nanotechnology: Learning from past mistakes July 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A new expert analysis in Nature Nanotechnology questions whether industry, government and scientists are successfully applying lessons learned from past technologies to ensure the safe and responsible development of ... | |
 Quantum Rod System May Safely 'Sneak' Drugs, Diagnostics into Brain July 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique nanoparticle system developed by University at Buffalo scientists takes advantage of the versatility of bioconjugated quantum rods to ferry novel diagnostic and therapeutic agents ... | |
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