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DNA nanorobots could tell cancer cells to self-destruct: Wyss Institute at...

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cell targets within...

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Nanoparticles’ detrimental nutritional health effects

Nanoparticles are everywhere. From cosmetics and clothes, to soda and snacks. But as versatile as they are, nanoparticles also have a downside, say researchers at Binghamton University and Cornell...

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Greener, less expensive drugs via nanotechnology

A chemistry team at the University of Toronto has discovered environmentally-friendly iron-based nanoparticle catalysts that work as well as the expensive, toxic, metal-based catalysts that are...

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Antitumor nanomedicine study published

BIND Biosciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of highly selective targeted and programmable therapeutics called AccurinsTM, that are capable of up to a ten-fold...

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Nanotechnology draft guidance document from the FDA

Two draft guidance documents that address the use of nanotechnology by the food and cosmetics industries were issued today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Nanotechnology is an evolving...

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Biotechnology patent law is about to change

Passage of the America Invents Act into law led to the most dramatic changes in the U.S. patent system in 60 years. These reforms will have a significant impact on technology innovators such as...

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8th NanoBio-Europe conference, Varese, 18 – 20 June 2012

The 115 titles on Amazon that pop up when you do a search for “nanobiotechnology” The 8th NanoBio-Europe conference will take place on 18 – 20 June 2012 in Varese (Lombardy, Northern Italy),...

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Prostate cancer could be detected early with new technique

Chances of survival of prostate cancer depend strongly on the stage at which the disease is diagnosed. Now scientists have developed new methods relying on an electronic nose and optoacoustics to...

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Nanoparticle air pollution linked to RA, autoimmune diseases in new study

New groundbreaking research by scientists at Trinity College Dublin has found that exposure to nanoparticles can have a serious impact on health, linking it to rheumatoid arthritis and the development...

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Brain-produced power could fuel nanomachines in body

MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on the same sugar that powers human cells: glucose. This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly efficient brain implants of the future,...

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Proteins have us on the cusp of major breakthroughs in cancer, heart disease

Scientists at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen have used a new method to assemble a massive catalogue of data on proteins. This gives them...

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Virus-detection technologies get even smaller, which is a good thing

Scientists at UB and IBEC in Barcelona have found a way of effectively identifying nanoscale objects and viruses that could offer a breakthrough for biomedical diagnostics, environmental protection...

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Cells in tissues tracked with new microscopy technique, histo-cytometry

NIAID investigators have developed a microscopy technique capable of identifying, locating, and quantifying many distinct immune cells in whole tissues. This technology could enable researchers to...

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Tumors shrunk by nanoparticles

By sequencing cancer-cell genomes, scientists have discovered vast numbers of genes that are mutated, deleted or copied in cancer cells. This treasure trove is a boon for researchers seeking new drug...

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Biosensors capable of identifying the smallest single virus particles could...

Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have created an ultra-sensitive biosensor capable of identifying the smallest single virus particles in solution, an advance that...

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Nanoscale can weigh one molecule

Nat Nanotechnol. 2012 Aug 26. doi: 10.1038/nnano.2012.119. [Epub ahead of print] Single-protein nanomechanical mass spectrometry in real time. Hanay MS, Kelber S, Naik AK, Chi D, Hentz S, Bullard EC,...

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Wake up, fitness industry. Tech workarounds may offer better solutions. Soon.

BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 6, 2012 – Tiny strands of RNA affect how our cells burn fat and sugar — a finding that gives biologists a place to start in the quest for therapies to treat obesity and related...

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Transient electronics that ‘disappear’ could have applications in medicine,...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Tufts University are the first to demonstrate “transient electronics” — which...

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Solar cell consisting of a single molecule

A team of scientists, led by Joachim Reichert, Johannes Barth, and Alexander Holleitner (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Clusters of Excellence MAP and NIM), and Itai Carmeli (Tel Aviv University)...

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New cancer treatment tactic: trackable drug-filled nanoparticles

[NEWS 1 MARCH 2013] Tiny particles filled with a drug could be a new tool for treating cancer in the future. A new study published by Swedish scientists in Particle & Particle Systems...

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