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Like little golden assassins, 'smart' nanoparticles identify, target and kill cancer cells

Another weapon in the arsenal against cancer: Nanoparticles that identify, target and kill specific cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Scientists make tiny new magnets from old bugs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Manchester have found a clean and green way of making tiny magnets for high tech gadgets - using natural bacteria that have been around for millions of years.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Ferropaper' is new technology for small motors, robots

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists Show How Bacteria Move Electrons Across a Membrane

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of East Anglia, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated for the first time the mechanism by which some bacteria ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Machine Converts CO2 into Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a machine that uses the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (47) | comments 25 weblog

Nanoparticles Detect and Purge Metastases in Lymph Nodes

Colonoscopy represents one of the great weapons against cancer. In one step, a physician can find precancerous lesions in the colon and then cut them out, an on-the-spot intervention that prevents cancer from developing. ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Magnetism Turns Drug Release On and Off

Many medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes and chronic pain, require medications that cannot be taken orally, but must be dosed intermittently, on an as-needed basis, over a long period of time. A few delivery techniques ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Magnetic leaves reveal Bellingham's most polluted byways

Tree leaves may be powerful tools for monitoring air quality and planning biking routes and walking paths, suggests a new study by scientists at Western Washington University in Bellingham. The research will ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Therapeutic nanoparticles give new meaning to sugar-coating medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has uncovered a delicate balancing act that makes ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's a grind to make Mars red

(PhysOrg.com) -- The widespread idea that Mars is red due to rocks being rusted by the water that once flooded the red planet may be wrong. Recent laboratory studies show that the red dust may be formed by ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Methane-eating microbes can use iron and manganese oxides to 'breathe'

Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of researchers ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Implant bacteria, beware: Researchers create nano-sized assassins

Staphylococcus epidermidis is quite an opportunist. Commonly found on human skin, the bacteria pose little danger. But S. epidermidis is a leading cause of infections in hospitals. From catheters to prosthetic ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Nanoparticles could someday lead to end of chemotherapy

Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

First 'nanorust' field test slated in Mexico

Rice University researchers today announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the university's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Scorpion venom with nanoparticles slows spread of brain cancer

By combining nanoparticles with a scorpion venom compound already being investigated for treating brain cancer, University of Washington researchers found they could cut the spread of cancerous cells by 98 ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3