POSTS TAGGED AS nanotechnology

Spit Analysis for Heart Attack Risk

Device to analyze spit to diagnose risk of heart disease
Australian scientists have developed a device that assesses biomarkers in spit [MORE]

Correcting Ventricular Arrhythmias with Carbon Nanotube Circuits

Using carbon nanofibers for heart elecrtical circuits
In researching possible treatments for ventricular arrhythmias, engineers at the Texas Heart Institute (Houston, [MORE]

Shrinking Carbon Nanotubes

Multi walled nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes have a wide range of applications in medicine from artificial muscles and artificial retinas to heart [MORE]

Implant for Remote Controlled Disease Management

Remote control implantable drug delivery system
“Researchers from Houston Methodist successfully delivered continuous, predetermined dosages of two chronic disease medications using [MORE]

First Count of Growth Factors in a Single Cell

Quantum dots
Bioengineers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “report digital counting of growth factors in single cells using fluorescent quantum [MORE]

Microfluidics Device takes Exomes from Blood

Pulling exosomes from blood to test for cancer
All cells produce and release exosomes, but tumors do more of both.  And, [MORE]

Cancer-Detecting Sensor

Nanobiosensors to detect cancer
Whether a gene mutation initiates cancer, or a post translational modification to the gene’s protein is the [MORE]

New Stem Cell Scaffold for CNS Tissue Transplants

 
Inorganic nanoscaffold for stem cell therapy
Rutgers’s engineers have created a biodegradable, inorganic hybrid (BHI) scaffold that can deliver stem cells, [MORE]

Quantum Dots in Single Cell Imaging

Quantum dots show mRNA and cell nucleus
“A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Mayo Clinic [MORE]

Making Nanoparticles Stick in the Liver

Nanoparticles with hairy polymer shells
Various kinds of nanoparticles are possible drug delivery vehicles in the body.  This report tells of [MORE]

Proof-of-Concept for Nanobot “Fantastic Voyage”

Nanorobots
In the 1966 film “Fantastic Voyage,” scientists inside a micro-submarine swam through the blood steam aiming to break up a [MORE]

Cell Sized Injectable Sensing Robots

 
MIT nanomachines
MIT engineers are building some extremely small electronic devices, with the idea of putting billions of them in the [MORE]

Nanobots for Treating MRSA

Nanobots grab MRSA bacteria
Using gold nanowires coated with platelets and red blood cells, bioengineers at the University of California in [MORE]

“Obscure Technologies” in the Future of Healthcare

Car seat with embedded sensors
According to this piece which focuses on nanotechnology as a driver of a second wave of [MORE]