Tag: Nanomedicine

More Predictive in Vitro Assays May Improve Nanomedicine

February 1, 2022
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Washington, DC — Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines are a prime example of the promising field of nanomedicine. But progress in the design and application of nanoparticles as efficient delivery vehicles...

New Technology Promises to Revolutionize Nanomedicine

July 20, 2020
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Dolgoprudny, Russia — Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Prokhorov General Physics...

New Nanomedicine Slips Through the Cracks

April 24, 2019
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Tokyo, Japan — In a recent study in mice, researchers found a way to deliver specific drugs to parts of the body that are exceptionally difficult to access. Their Y-shaped block catiomer (YBC) binds...

Pill for Delivering Biomedical Micromotors

September 6, 2018
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Using tiny micromotors to diagnose and treat disease in the human body could soon be a reality. But keeping these devices intact as they travel through the body remains a hurdle. Now scientists report...

Researchers Discover Method to Deliver Curcumin to Cancer Cells

August 7, 2018
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Champaign, IL — Recently, scientists have also discovered that curcumin, a naturally occurring substance isolated from the Curcuma long plant, to be an effective agent for killing cancer cells.

New Polymer Pill Proves It Can Deliver

August 1, 2018
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Philadelphia, PA — Selecting the right packaging to get precious cargo from point A to point B can be a daunting task at the post office.

Magnetic Nanoparticles Deliver Chemotherapy to Difficult-to-Reach Spinal Tumours

July 31, 2018
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Champaign, IL — Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have demonstrated that magnetic nanoparticles can be used to ferry chemotherapy drugs into the spinal cord to treat hard-to-reach...

Magnetic Surgical Cement Heals Spinal Fractures, Provides Targeted Drug Delivery

July 30, 2018
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Chicago, IL — Patients with spinal fractures caused by tumours or osteoporosis usually undergo a procedure called kyphoplasty, where the fracture is filled with surgical cement.

New Ceria Nanoparticles Attack Parkinson’s Disease from Three Fronts

July 27, 2018
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Daejeon, Korea — Researchers at the Center for Nanoparticle Research, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), have developed a set of nanoparticles for Parkinson’s disease ...

Nano-Carrier Designed to Release Drugs into Damaged Cells

July 26, 2018
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Barcelona, Spain — Senescent cells are damaged cells that do not perform their normal roles anymore but that are not dead — hence they are commonly known as zombi cells. These cells interfere...

Lipid-based Nanoparticles Enable Improved Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis Patients

June 25, 2018
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Portland, OR — Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University are working on a treatment that holds great promise for improving the lives of cystic fibrosis pati...

Targeting Strategy may Open Door to Better Cancer Drug Delivery

June 6, 2018
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State College, PA — Bioengineers may be able to use the unique mechanical properties of diseased cells, such as metastatic cancer cells, to help improve delivery of drug treatments to the targeted cells,...

Tiny Particles could Help Fight Brain Cancer

May 24, 2018
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Cambridge, MA — MIT researchers have devised a new drug-delivering nanoparticle that could offer a better way to treat glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain tumour, one of the most difficult-to-treat...

Discovery will Impact Design of Drug Delivery Systems at the Molecular Level

May 17, 2018
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Houston, TX — Researchers at Houston Methodist and Rice University have made a discovery that will impact the design of not only drug delivery systems, but also the development of newer applications...

Drugs can be Made ‘Smarter’ with Nanotechnology

April 23, 2018
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Lincoln, UK — A new method has been developed to make drugs ‘smarter’ using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching their target.

New Nanostructures Could Make Gene Therapies Safer, Faster and More Affordable

March 15, 2018
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Los Angeles, CA — UCLA scientists have developed a new method that utilizes microscopic splinter-like structures called “nanospears” for the targeted delivery of biomolecules such as genes...

Scientists Create Hybrid Nanomaterials in Fight Against Cancer and Bacteria

March 14, 2018
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Moscow, Russia — Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NUST MISIS), the State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and the Queensland University...

Extracellular Vesicles Could Be Personalized Drug Delivery Vehicles

March 13, 2018
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State College, PA — Researchers who aim to create enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system have used mouse autologous immune cells to create large amounts of fillable nanovesicles...

Comparison Study Shows Value of DNA Barcoding in Selecting Nanoparticles

March 8, 2018
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Atlanta, GA — The first direct comparison of in vitro and in vivo screening techniques for identifying nanoparticles that may be used to transport therapeutic molecules into cells shows that testing...

Research Team Invents Tiny, Light-Powered Wires to Modulate Brain’s Electrical Signals

February 21, 2018
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Chicago, IL — The human brain largely remains a black box: How the network of fast-moving electrical signals turns into thought, movement and disease remains poorly understood.

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