News tagged with nanomedicine
'Nanobubbles' kill cancer cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. The scientists used lasers ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Medical imaging breakthrough uses light and sound to see microscopic details inside our bodies
See it for yourself: a new breakthrough in imaging technology using a combination of light and sound will allow health care providers to see microscopic details inside the body. Access to this level of detail potentially ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Radioactive Gold Nanoparticles Destroy Prostate Tumors, Leaving Healthy Tissue Untouched
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanoparticles as delivery agents for cancer therapeutics is that they will attack tumors while sparing healthy tissue from the damage normally associated with today's anticancer therapies. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 21, 2010 |
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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
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Cancer drug effectiveness substantially advanced
Researchers have shown that a peptide (a chain of amino acids) called iRGD helps co-administered drugs penetrate deeply into tumor tissue. The peptide has been shown to substantially increase treatment efficacy against human ...
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Scientists fight cancer with nanotechnology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnology researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have developed a method of detecting, tracking, and killing cancer cells in real time with carbon nanotubes.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 21, 2009 |
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Magnetic Nanoparticles Remove Ovarian Cancer Cells from the Abdominal Cavity
A major complicating factor in the treatment of ovarian cancer is that malignant cells are often shed into the patient’s abdominal cavity. These cells can then spread to other tissues, seeding new tumors that make effective ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 18, 2010 |
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Using nanotechnology to improve a cancer treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers have devised a method that may allow clinicians to use higher doses of a powerful chemotherapy drug that has been limited because it is toxic not only ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Microchip can detect type and severity of cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Nanotechnology in the Fight Against Cancer
A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering ma ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 05, 2010 |
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New instrument keeps an 'eye' on nanoparticles
Precision measurement in the world of nanoparticles has now become a possibility, thanks to scientists at UC Santa Barbara.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 06, 2011 |
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Using radio waves to bake tumors
(Phys.org) -- Nanothermal therapy – the use of nanoparticles to cook a tumor to death – is one of the many promising uses of nanotechnology to both improve the effectiveness of cancer therapy and reduce its side ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 06, 2012 |
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Research explores interactions between nanomaterials, biological systems
(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent explosion in the development of nanomaterials with enhanced performance characteristics for use in commercial and medical applications has increased the likelihood of people coming into direct ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 19, 2009 |
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New sensor nanotechnology simplifies disease detection
Researchers at Stony Brook University have developed a new sensor nanotechnology that could revolutionize personalized medicine by making it possible to instantly detect and monitor disease by simply exhaling ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Delivering drugs on time and on target
(PhysOrg.com) -- Northeastern professor leading research on nanocarriers that would make a whole new class of drugs available to treat cancer and other diseases
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanotechnology. Nanomedicine ranges from the medical applications of nanomaterials, to nanoelectronic biosensors, and even possible future applications of molecular nanotechnology. Current problems for nanomedicine involve understanding the issues related to toxicity and environmental impact of nanoscale materials. One nanometer is one-millionth of a millimeter.
Nanomedicine research is receiving funding from the US National Institute of Health. Of note is the funding in 2005 of a five-year plan to set up four nanomedicine centers. In April 2006, the journal Nature Materials estimated that 130 nanotech-based drugs and delivery systems were being developed worldwide.
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