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Remote-control nanoparticles deliver drugs directly into tumors
MIT scientists have devised remotely controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field, release drugs to attack tumors.Here, dark gray nanoparticles carry different drug payloads...
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Nanorobot drug delivery
Adriano Cavalcanti is CEO and chairman of CAN Center for Automation in Nanobiotech. Adriano and his coleagues have proposed a nanorobot platform should enable patient pervasive monitoring, and details...
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Magnetic Nanoparticles could be used to control uptake of drugs by cell...
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a means of controlling cell functions with a physical, rather than chemical, signal. Immune cells coated with nanoparticles take up calcium in the...
View ArticleNanomaterials used to localize and control drug delivery
Nanoscale polymer films, about four nanometers per layer, were used to build a sort of matrix or platform to hold and slowly release an anti-inflammatory drug. The films are orders of magnitude thinner...
View ArticleSilica nanoparticles more effectively deliver bacteria killing nitric oxide
Mark Schoenfisch and his lab of analytical chemists at UNC have created nano-scale scaffolds made of silica and loaded with nitric oxide (NO) which can be released in a precisely controlled way. Nitric...
View ArticleNanoemulsion vaccines
A novel technique for vaccinating against a variety of infectious diseases – using an oil-based emulsion placed in the nose, rather than needles – has proved able to produce a strong immune response...
View ArticleNovozymes and Upperton Collaborate on New Nanoparticle Drug Delivery
Nanowerk reports that Novozymes announced a new collaboration agreement with Upperton Limited, a UK based Biotech Company specialising in novel nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems.The two...
View ArticleNanoparticle synthesis techniques could grow functional devices out of solution
Nanowerk reports on an important research direction in nanoparticle synthesis is the expansion from single-component nanoparticles to hybrid nanostructures that possess two or more functional...
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Lipid Polymer Nanocontainers with controlled permeability
From Nano Letters, "Biofunctionalized Lipid−Polymer Hybrid Nanocontainers with Controlled Permeability"We have successfully developed, for the first time, a novel polymer–lipid hybrid nanocontainer...
View ArticleNested' nanoparticles increase efficiency of drug delivery
University of Texas researchers believe that by encasing their drugs in a series of nanoparticles they can produce a highly targeted treatment that bypasses the body's immune defences which have...
View ArticleStanford uses gold nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes and lasers to image to the...
Stanford University School of Medicine researchers has developed a new type of imaging system that can illuminate tumors in living subjects—getting pictures with a precision of nearly on nanometer...
View ArticleNanoparticle enabled cooking of cancer tumors moving to clinical trials in...
Kanzius RF therapy attaches microscopic nanoparticles to cancer cells and then "cooks" tumors inside the body with harmless radio waves could be in clinical trials as early as 3 years. The treatment...
View ArticleTiny Magnets for more effective Gene Therapy targeting for cancer, arthritis,...
The technique involves inserting nanomagnets into monocytes - a type of white blood cell used to carry gene therapy - and injecting the cells into the bloodstream. The researchers then placed a small...
View ArticleNanodiamonds 100 times cheaper, used to track cells in the body and deliver...
Taiwanese scientists have found a way to slash the cost of making the diamond chips by around 100 times.Nanodiamond's fluorescent properties could be used to track cells moving through the body. And,...
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Folded up micrometer-scale 'voxels' for drug delivery
After starting the folds using magnetic forces, the structure is sealed using capillary action.USC researchers have made pyramid structures that are 40 micrometers on each sidePart one is the creation...
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Nanoworms (magnetic iron oxide particles with polymer coating) target cancer...
Segmented "nanoworms" composed of magnetic iron oxide and coated with a polymer are able to find and attach to tumors. Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed...
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Nanobialys can carry drugs to tumors or plaques
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...
View ArticleCarbon nanotubes could reduce side effects from cancer treatment.
MIT Technology Review reports that carbon nanotubes could reduce the side effects of cancer drugs and mice tests show they are twice as effective at reducing tumor size. The researchers estimate that...
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Tobacco Mosaic Virus can deliver gene silencing RNA and enables new drugs in...
Tobacco mosaic virus is like a 18-nanometer wide straw, which can hold gene silencing RNAThe tobacco mosaic virus appears to be the key to safe and effective delivery of gene silencing RNA.Bentley's...
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A complex hybrid Nanoparticle slightly smaller than a virus deliver drug...
The nanometer-sized cargo ships look individually like a chocolate-covered nut cluster, in which a biocompatible lipid forms the chocolate shell and magnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots and the drug...
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Nanodiamond drug device could transform cancer treatment
Nanodiamond-embedded devices could be used to deliver a broad range of therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and inflammation and for regenerative medicine. The extremely thin and flexible devices...
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DNA Boxes Could Deliver Drugs
Chemistry World is reporting that Danish researchers have made a nano-sized box out of DNA that can be locked or opened in response to 'keys' made from short strands of DNA. By changing the nature or...
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Improved personalized cancer treatment with new RNAi delivery
In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of...
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Buckywire for drug delivery and more
Synthesis of a fullerene-based one-dimensional nanopolymerthrough topochemical transformation of the parent nanowire (30 page pdf)Large-scale practical applications of fullerene (C60) in nanodevices...
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Cowpea Mosaic Virus Delivers Drugs to Kill Cancer Cells
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer SoftwareNorwich BioScience Institutes have developed particles from the Cowpea mosaic virus can carry anti-cancer agents to cancer...
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