First human trials: Nanoparticles deliver anti-cancer siRNA
Human trials – that’s news. Nanoparticles that target cancer have been in the laboratories (and floating around rodent blood) for many years, but a team of researchers and doctors from the California...
View ArticleComing: Toss the needles. Use a nanopatch.
There are a lot of reasons why decreasing the use of injection needles is a good idea – cost, safety, the fear factor. That’s why the use of sprays, liquids, lozenges, and patches are always popular –...
View ArticleNanotech spiders: On track with molecular robotics
You have to love it when the lead scientists on a project say: “You could imagine the spider carrying a drug and bonding to a two-dimensional surface like a cell membrane, finding the receptors and,...
View ArticleNanosponge delivers
Right up there in frequency with using nanotechnology for face powders has to be the myriad ways in which nanotech is, will, or can be used to deliver medicine. Why nanotech? For one thing, the...
View ArticleA new line of defense: Plastic antibodies
Molecular biologists have been working on making artificial antibodies for over twenty years, which come to think of it, isn’t so long. Nature took many hundreds of millions of years to develop...
View ArticleNanofibers produced like cotton candy
Think of it as nano-cotton candy.Even in English the fluffy balls of finely spun sugar have different names: Cotton candy (US), candyfloss (UK), fairy floss (Australia), but world-wide it’s a...
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Cosmology – Hubble does it again: Another oldest galaxy | Is there no end to the universe? Trick question, of course, but the succession of ever older galaxies discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope...
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Targeting cancer with magnetic microcarrier – Nanomedicine | As a rule chemotherapy is like using a blunderbuss against cancer. ‘Chemo’ is administered through the bloodstream, which of course goes...
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Restraining and studying molecules, two at a time – Photonics | The usual way of studying how molecules react to a catalyst is to put them into a solution and observe – typically huge numbers of...
View ArticleCitrullination: Nanoparticles and arthritis
Here’s another study to add to the list of potential (or probable) problems with a world exposed to nanoparticles: Nanomedicine [12 June 2012, paywalled, Citrullination of proteins: a common...
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