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Mar 18 | News
A team of McGill Chemistry Department researchers led by Dr. Hanadi Sleiman has achieved a breakthrough in the development of nanotubes—tiny "magic bullets" that could one day deliver drugs to specific diseased cells.
Feb 5 | News
Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice Univ. have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. The scientists used lasers to make "nanobubbles" by zapping gold nanoparticles inside cells.
Jan 19 | News
Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School have built targeted nanoparticles that can cling to artery walls and slowly release medicine, an advance that potentially provides an alternative to drug-releasing stents in some patients with cardiovascular disease.
Jan 14 | News
A Northwestern Univ. study shows that coupling a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal intensity and, thus, vivid image contrast.
Jan 5 | News
A team of researchers in California and Massachusetts has developed a “cocktail” of different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within the bloodstream to locate, adhere to and kill cancerous tumors.
Jan 4 | News
Johns Hopkins researchers have created biodegradable nanosized particles that can easily slip through the body's sticky and viscous mucus secretions to deliver a sustained-release medication cargo. The invention suggests a possible means of treatment for cystic fibrosis sufferers.
Jan 4 | News
Johns Hopkins Univ. researchers have created biodegradable nanosized particles that can easily slip through the body's sticky and viscous mucus secretions to deliver a sustained-release medication cargo.
12/22/2009 | Featured Articles
The past several decades have heralded a revolution in the fundamental understanding of disease and disease progression. In particular, researchers have come to recognize the interconnectivity that exists between cellular tissue and organ systems in mammals, and that one system can no longer be studied in isolation.
12/21/2009 | Innovator Of The Year
For people living with cancer, treating their disease successfully is often marred by the many side effects associated with intravenous chemotherapy. Emerging drug delivery technologies focus on limiting the exposure of healthy cells to these toxic agents, but few have the potential to improve patient care in a significant way. Kevin N. Sill, PhD, has designed an advanced method for encapsulating a wide variety of therapeutic agents into a polymer-based drug delivery system, called the IVECT Method.
12/21/2009 | News
In what could signal a major advance in protein therapeutics, researchers at UCLA have developed a new intracellular delivery platform that uses nanocapsules made up of a single-protein core with a thin polymer shell that can be engineered to either degrade or remain stable based on the cellular environment.