POSTS TAGGED AS nanotechnology

Perspective on Nanomedicine

You’ll have to go to the journal Molecular Pharmaceuticals to get the full text of this nanomedicine review, but [MORE]

Chitosan Nanoparticles in Gene Therapy Delivery

This story is on the far side, but perhaps most interesting because of that.  Researchers at Sweden’s renowned Karolinska [MORE]

Nanoscale Lipid Vesicle Platform for Millions of Tests on One Chip

The ability to make incredibly small containers from phospholipids (liposomes) has been known since the early 1960’s, and has [MORE]

Magnetic Nanoparticles for Blood Cleansing

Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed and tested antibody-coated magnetic nanoparticles that can capture several harmful contaminants [MORE]

Stamping Out Lab Chips

Besides the $1,000 genome sequence, wouldn’t it be nice to have a ten cent medical lab-on-a-chip that could diagnose [MORE]

New Blood Protein Diagnostics

Aptamers are oligonucleic acids or peptides that bind with specific molecules, and their existence has been known for about [MORE]

Nanochannel Electroporation

Most gene therapy protocols rely on recombinant viral vectors for transfection, but that has not been without problems.  However, [MORE]

A One-Molecule Motor

Keep in mind that there are as many nanoseconds in a second as there are seconds in 31.7 years. [MORE]

Programmable, Patient-Specific Bandages

Bioengineering professor Elizabeth Loboa, at North Carolina State University, aims to create wound healing bandages from hollow, [MORE]

Nanofiber Material Simulates VEGF

Using an injectable liquid that contains nanoparticles engineered to mimic vascular endothelial growth factor, researchers at Northwestern University’s Institute [MORE]

Biomarkers in Fingerprints

It is known that residues of nicotine and illegal drugs can be detected in sweaty palms and moist fingers, [MORE]

Nanosensor Tattoos

By designing polymer nanoparticles that contain a capture molecule, a charge neutralizing molecule and a fluorescent dye, researchers at [MORE]

Nanotubes to Sniff Out Disease

Mimicking the olfactory capability of the dog in sniffing out explosives, and even the presence of cancer, researchers at [MORE]

Proteomic Analysis of Bone Matrix

Using laser capture micro-dissection and mass spectroscopy, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been able to determine the proteomic “signatures [MORE]

Magnetic Hyperthermia

Fascination with magnets has launched thousands of claims for their health benefits-in treating pain, asthma, allergies, depression, chronic fatigue, [MORE]

Nanopore Chip for DNA Sequencing

IBM may have pioneered nanopore technology, but other companies have advanced the field or found alternatives to faster DNA [MORE]

Something Like Cotton Candy for Wound Dressings

Wounds resulting from diabetes can take years to heal, if they heal at all.  Occasionally, they lead to death [MORE]

Carbon Nanotubes Regenerate Heart Tissue

While regenerative medicine researchers work on growing new hearts from collagen scaffolds and induced pluripotent stem cells, engineers at [MORE]

Drug Delivery via Nanodisks

All mammalian cells contain naturally occurring nanoparticles called “vaults” that resemble, in their lipid bilayer structure, artificial liposomes used [MORE]

Nanoparticles for Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) accounts for nearly 19,000 deaths annually from hospital-acquired infections. Antibiotics which might otherwise penetrate the [MORE]