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Golden Nanotubes Used for Imaging Agent to Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Node

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent that is capable of molecular ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Study magnetizes carbon nanoparticles for cancer therapy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of University of Texas at Arlington researchers have developed a method that uses magnetic carbon nanoparticles to target and destroy cancer cells through laser therapy - a treatment ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New pretreatment process delivers biocompatible, stable gold nanorods for tumor treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gold isn’t just lovely in jewelry; it has long been used as medicine. Modern medicine is particularly focused on nanoscopic gold, which can be used as a contrast agent and in the treatment ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Organic electronic devices could be printed on ordinary CDs and DVDs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic electronics – those that involve carbon-based conductors instead of the traditional copper or silicon – have a number of advantages over metal electronics, including their ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Double strike to fight cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diagnosis and treatment form the basis of modern medicine. Traditionally, they are two separate steps; however, it doesn’t have to be that way. The term “theranostic” refers ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A guide star lets scientists see deep into human tissue

Astronomers have a neat trick they sometimes use to compensate for the turbulence of the atmosphere that blurs images made by ground-based telescopes. They create an artificial star called a guide star and ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

The dance of hot nanoparticles

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Brownian motion is a very old concept," Klaus Kroy tells PhysOrg.com. "The laws explaining it were formulated more than a century ago by Albert Einstein. However, we are finding some intere ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Self-Assembling Gold Nanoparticles Use Light to Kill Tumor Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A variety of studies by numerous investigators are demonstrating that gold nanoparticles have real promise as anticancer agents. When irradiated with light, gold nanoparticles become hot quickly, hot enough ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Scrubbing' chemical-contaminated buildings clean with lasers

Dhiren Barot was an al Qaeda operative involved in plots to blow up the London subway, among other targets. To maximize the damage and the terror, he planned to pack some of his bombs with toxic gas. Fortunately, ...

Chemistry / Other

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

INL laser research could help U.S. respond to terror attack

Lasers can do many things for us, from scanning barcodes at the grocery checkout to searching for life on the surface of Mars. And, according to chemists at Idaho National Laboratory, lasers might be able ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nano imagining takes turn for the better

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stephan Link wants to understand how nanomaterials align, and his lab's latest work is a step in the right direction.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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