Category Archives: Nano Medicine

Nanotube Tech Leading To Faster, Lower-cost Medical Diagnostics

March 11, 2012 Researchers at Oregon State University have tapped into the extraordinary power of carbon nanotubes to increase the speed of biological sensors, a technology that might one day allow a doctor to routinely perform lab tests in minutes, speeding diagnosis and treatment while reducing costs. The new findings have almost tripled the speed of prototype nano-biosensors, and should find applications not only in medicine but in toxicology, environmental monitoring, new drug development and other fields. The research was just reported in Lab on a Chip, a professional journal Continue reading

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Nanotech Commercialization Conference Announces Keynote Lineup

RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Global technology leaders will descend upon North Carolina for the Nanotech Commercialization Conference (NCC) www.nanoevent.org, hosted by the Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN), the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association (NanoBCA) and the North Carolina Office of Science & Technology. Corporate, investor, start-up and academic leaders will all be in attendance at this cutting edge event in Durham, NC, April 4th-5th, 2012 Continue reading

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8220Nano Days8221 Comes to New Hampshire

Concord, NH – This year from March 24 through April 1, the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center will be celebrating Nano Days, the largest event for the smallest of sciences, with activities for all ages that explore nanoscience. Nano Days is a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering. Continue reading

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Flu drug speeds up brain recovery

NEW YORK — Researchers are reporting the first treatment to speed recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls and car crashes: a cheap flu medicine whose side benefits were discovered by accident decades ago. Severely injured patients who were given amantadine got better faster than those who received a dummy medicine. After four weeks, more people in the flu drug group could give reliable yes-and-no answers, follow commands or use a spoon or hairbrush — things that few of them could do at the start. Continue reading

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Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsStudy: Old flu drug speeds brain injury recovery

By STEPHANIE NANO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – Researchers are reporting the first treatment to speed recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls and car crashes: a cheap flu medicine whose side benefits were discovered by accident decades ago. Continue reading

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Study: Old flu drug speeds brain injury recovery

By STEPHANIE NANO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – Researchers are reporting the first treatment to speed recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls and car crashes: a cheap flu medicine whose side benefits were discovered by accident decades ago. Severely injured patients who were given amantadine got better faster than those who received a dummy medicine Continue reading

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Research and Markets: Intelligent Nanomaterials

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/48cbd2/intelligent_nanoma) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new book “Intelligent Nanomaterials” to their offering. Smart and intelligent nanomaterials are currently in sharp focus in materials research as their properties are increasingly becoming more understood. This large and fairly comprehensive volume includes thirty chapters divided into four main areas: Inorganic materials, organic materials, composite materials, and biomaterials. Continue reading

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Once science fiction, nano-rockets carrying medicine through body closer to reality

Your office is now under siege from the flu. Continue reading

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Nano-rockets carrying medicine through body closer to reality

Your office is now under siege from the flu. One worker down. Then, bang, your buddy in the next cubicle. Continue reading

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Allocation for science promotion negligible, says CCMB Director

12th State conference of Jana Vignana Vedika gets under way The percentage of GDP allocated for promotion of science has registered a negligible increase from 0.8 last year to 0.9 now. This is despite political leaders promising to increase it substantially. Continue reading

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Cost effective and toxix medicine for cancer

Home > News > kerala-news Kochi, Feb 21 : Promising new lease on life to cancer patients across the world, a young scientist from Kerala has developed a cost effective and less toxic nano medicine to cure cancer. The medicine is claimed to be very effective for oral, brain and pancreatic cancers and is also cost effective with minimum side effects compared to existing drugs in the market. The medicine begins to work within 48 hours after being injected into a patient and 90 per cent of it would accumlate in the cancer tissue compared to other medicines, Dr Manszoor Koyakutty, who developed the medicine told UNI. Continue reading

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Iran to produce non-carcinogenic docetaxel medicine

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One Way Trip to the Moon – Video


29-01-2012 11:34 For more than 50 years from JFK to President Obama the United States has been planning to colonize the Moon. Continue reading

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Nano-technology uses virus' coats to fool cancer cells

( BioMed Central ) While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of brain cancer, it continues to have a very low survival rate. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Journal of Nanobiotechnology … Continue reading

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Nano-enabled nasal spray for osteoporosis

Public release date: 17-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Lindsay Brooke Lindsay.brooke@nottingham.ac.uk 44-011-595-15751 University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham spin-out company, Critical Pharmaceuticals, has announced a ?545,000 collaboration with the University to develop a nano-enabled intranasal formulation of teriparatide for the treatment of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, US and Japan with more than 180,000 patients suffer fragility fractures in the UK alone each year, at a cost of around ?2 billion to the NHS. Teriparatide, an excellent recent addition to the range of drugs used for the treatment of osteoporosis, but it currently needs to be injected every day Continue reading

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Implanted Chip Delivers Drugs Without a Thought

Researchers say they have made the first implantable chip that can deliver medicine for as long as a year and that several women tolerated it safely for up to four months. Not only did the subjects find the implant comfortable, but it appeared to deliver an osteoporosis drug effectively, the team told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Continue reading

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Implantable microchip delivers medicine to women with osteoporosis

Public release date: 16-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Natasha Pinol npinol@aaas.org 202-326-7088 American Association for the Advancement of Science Osteoporosis patients could soon ditch daily injection pens for an implantable microchip that releases medication at the push of a remote-controlled button, reports a new study appearing 16 February 2012 in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The clinical trial, composed of a group of women with osteoporosis in Denmark, is the first to test a wirelessly controlled microchip capable of releasing drugs into the body at any time. ?Patients will be freed from having to remember to take their medication and don?t have to experience the pain of multiple injections,? said Robert Farra, President and Chief Operating Officer of MicroCHIPS, Inc., the Massachusetts-based company behind the device. Continue reading

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Study implants chip that oozes out a daily dose of medicine as doctor orders by remote control

WASHINGTON – Medication via remote-control instead of a shot? Scientists implanted microchips in seven women that did just that, oozing out the right dose of a bone-strengthening drug once a day without them even noticing. Continue reading

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Critical Pharmaceuticals And The University Of Nottingham To Develop Nano-Enabled Nasal Spray For Osteoporosis

The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) provide grant funding to support the £545,000 project. Nottingham / B3C newswire / – Critical Pharmaceuticals, an emerging biotechnology company, and The University of Nottingham today announce a £545,000 collaboration to develop a nano-enabled intranasal formulation of teriparatide for the treatment of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, US and Japan with more than 180,000 patients suffer fragility fractures in the UK alone each year, at a cost of around £2 billion to the NHS Continue reading

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Nano-technology uses virus' coats to fool cancer cells

Public release date: 16-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Dr Hilary Glover hilary.glover@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22370 BioMed Central While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Journal of Nanobiotechnology has used Sendai virus to transport Quantum Dots (Qdots) into brain cancer cells and to specifically bind Qdots to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) which is often over-expressed and up-regulated in tumors. By molecular-labeling cancer cells this nanoparticle technology could be used to aid diagnosis Continue reading

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