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Nanotechnology: A lifeline for drying pharma pipelines?
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What has been nanotechnology’s greatest contribution to the healthcare sector in the last 5 years?
Professor Jamie C. Oliver
Oliver: Nanoparticle medicine has experienced substantial growth in the last half decade. Advances include new material chemistry for robust constructs, enhanced ligand co-targeting, formulation of true nanoparticles of ca. < 100 nm and a preliminary understanding [...]
Nanotechnology Tackles Major Problems Associated With Chemotherapy
Additional research focuses on practical application of nanotechnology across a wide range of fields including homeland defense and the environment
Huixin He, associate professor of nanoscale chemistry at Rutgers University, Newark, and Tamara Minko, professor at the Rutgers Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, have developed a nanotechnology approach that potentially could eliminate the problems of side [...]
Hemroids Got You Down? Need The Best Non-Surgical Treatment? ClearMed Makes It A Three-Peat
At hemroidshemorrhoids.com, users enjoy the ease of referring to just one online destination in order to find out which hemroid treatments work the best. Do the research, compare and contrast with other medications and order online.
“Without a doubt I felt a difference almost immediately from the ClearMed. When I woke up in the morning after [...]
Nanotechnology and medicine
Nanotechnology enthusiasts have high hopes that this will bring new treatments highly effective against disease. The reason is simple: nanotechnology operates at the same scale biology. A DNA molecule has a width of about 2.5 nm, and a protein such as hemoglobin has a diameter of about 5 nm. Human cells are much larger, the [...]
Rice physicists kill cancer with nanobubbles
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 to make “nanobubbles” by zapping gold nanoparticles inside cells. In tests on cancer cells, they found they could tune the lasers to create either small, bright [...]
Bleeding Hemorrhoids No Match for ClearMed, the Consumer Health Reports Top Pick
February, 2010 – After being recognized as the number one hemorrhoid treatment in 2007 and 2008, Consumer Health Reports has once again chosen ClearMed as the best product available for effectively treating hemorrhoids. As in previous years, ClearMed’s performance tops that of medications distributed by some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.
The market for hemorrhoid [...]
Hemorrhoid Treatment by ClearMed Rated Top Pick by Consumer Health Reports For Third Year In a Row
February, 2010 – For the third year in a row, the producers of ClearMed hemorrhoid treatment are celebrating a first place ranking by Consumer Health Reports. Many companies offer products aimed at treating hemorrhoids, including homeopathic versions and national brand products sold through pharmacies and retail stores by multinational pharmaceutical firms; during testing trials, over [...]
Nanobubbles may kill cancer cells, say scientists
In what may transform cancer cure, scientists claim to have discovered a new technique for cornering unhealthy cancer cells, and killing them with tiny explosions, using lasers, and nanoparticles.
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The breakthrough could significantly help in better diagnosis, and treatment of cancer, saving millions, the scientists said.
Currently available cancer diagnosis and treatment options are [...]
Magnetic nanoparticles: to prevent the spread of the cancer
“Selective removal of ovarian cancer cells from serous fluids may abate metastasis and improve long-term prognoses,” said lead author Kenneth E. Scarberry, PhD, postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
“We have previously shown that superparamagnetic nanoparticles conjugated to an ephrin mimetic peptide with a high affinity for the EphA2 receptor can be used [...]
Focus on nanotechnology
$20 million influx of investor financing for Liquidia Technologies based at Morrisville, N.C is currently working on revolutionizing drugs and vaccines. “In our most basic sense, we make nanoparticles,” said Neal Fowler, CEO.
“Through this engineering process you have the ability to aim and target these particles to go where you want with the drug loaded [...]
Microwave Technologies and Nanotechnology in Breast Cancer Treatments
A recent news announcement shared by the University of Oklahoma Health Science center asserts that the act of using microwave technologies is helping improve chemotherapy treatments. Researchers are using the technology in an effort to shrink breast cancer cells and initial trials are showing promise. This technique is now in the trial stages [...]
Nanotechnology: Tunisian tertiary institution to operate new imagery system
Nanotechnology: Tunisian tertiary institution to operate new imagery system
TUNISIAONLINENEWS- The National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), has just received a new imagery system for the reading of bio-chips, based on the plasmonic resonance of surfaces.
According to a source in INSAT, the new device will enable a better understanding of the molecular interactions [...]
NIST Scientists Quantify Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions
A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has quantified the interaction of gold nanoparticles with important proteins found in human blood, an approach that should be useful in the development of nanoparticle-based medical therapies and for better understanding the physical origin of the toxicity of certain nanoparticles.
Insulin, one of the [...]
Water-based nanotechnology
Eran Gabbai, CEO and President of Do-Coop Technologies, explains the benefits of a new water-based nanotechnology.
Q1: What is Neowater?
Neowater is a novel and proprietary water-based nanotechnology developed by Do-Coop Technologies Ltd, a private intellectual property company based in Israel. Neowater is distinguished from regular water by a clear shift in its physical and chemical [...]
Nanotechnology being used to thwart AIDS
We have heard of copious numbers of approaches thus far to thwart the perilous saga of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) but this is certainly groundbreaking. Well, we are talking of the latest collaborative effort of India and Australia. The two premier nations have joined hands for bringing into play nanotechnology in renewable energy and [...]
Nanotechnology – Just What the Doctor Orders!
What if you were terminally ill and your doctor informed you that the venom from a snail could save your life?
What if the technology was available to produce a non-addictive painkiller that was thousands of times more potent than any morphine based product available today?
What if nanotechnology could provide the method of administering these potentially [...]
‘Fountain of Youth’ for Stem Cells?
Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a study in the current issue of Cell Transplantation that explores ways to successfully keep stem cells “forever young” during implantation by slowing their growth, differentiation and proliferation.
“The successful storage and implantation of stem cells poses significant challenges for tissue [...]
‘Smart’ Nanocapsule Delivery System Created for Use in Protein Therapy
Protein therapy — the delivery of healthy proteins directly into human cells to replace malfunctioning proteins — is considered one of the most direct and safe approaches for treating diseases. But its effectiveness has been limited by low delivery efficiency and the poor stability of proteins, which are frequently broken down and digested by cells’ [...]
Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria
(BRONX, NY) — Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a new approach for treating and healing skin abscesses caused by bacteria resistant to most antibiotics. The study appears in the journal PLoS One.
Abscesses are deep skin infections that often resist antibiotics and may require surgical drainage. For their [...]
Collaborates from Japan on drug delivery
Japanese oleochemicals group NOF is working with the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) on ways to incorporate nanotechnology into drug delivery solutions.
Tokyo-based NOF, founded in 1937, is bringing its seven decades of experience in the sector to the project, which marks the beginning of the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Frontier Research Program.
Along [...]
Half an Eye on the Progression of Nanotechnology
We should all keep an eye on progress towards molecular nanotechnology. It is a field that will first blossom when biotechnology is mature and in full swing, and the merging of the two will most likely lead to impressive technologies for medicine and human enhancement. Artificial immune systems, blood cells far better than the real [...]
Researchers create new ’smart’ nanocapsule delivery system for use in protein therapy
Shell of single-protein capsule degrades or remains intact based on environment.
Protein therapy — the delivery of healthy proteins directly into human cells to replace malfunctioning proteins — is considered one of the most direct and safe approaches for treating diseases. But its effectiveness has been limited by low delivery efficiency and the poor stability of [...]
Review Articles Explore Nanotechnology Applications in Food Safety
The Institute of Food Technologists released three review articles in the Journal of Food Science that were presented at the IFT Annual Meeting in 2009. The articles provide greater detail on nanotechnology science and its application to food.
Nanotechnology is the science of controlling material structures with dimensions of 100 nanometers or smaller. This new science [...]
Manhattan Beach Project to reverse aging by 2029
Human life expectancy may see a hockey stick growth curve in the coming years as a result of leaps made in fields such as molecular nanotechnology, gene therapy, robotics, and regenerative medicine.
Seizing the potential for radical longevity, an effort dubbed the “Manhattan Beach Project“, is a focused and targeted “all-out assault on the world’s biggest [...]
Eternal Youth a Possibility to Some Scientists and a Scorn to Others
Scientists are going beyond the thought-possible while proclaiming that aging can more than simply be gradually slowed down, it can end. It might even be plausible to rewind the aging process. New scientists of on aging are committed to overcome death and set longevity to an infinite limit.
Recently on a conference on aging, some maverick [...]
Bringing Medicine To Another Level
We live in an age where the lines between computer support and human support are changing. In Nassau County computer repair means people fixing computers. In Suffolk County computer repair means people fixing computers. But in the labs of esteemed universities studies are underway that would turn that notion on its head. Computer [...]
Taking the NanoPulse — Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Nano?
Nanotech “tales of terror” need more science, less fiction. Did you see the recent news stories out of China about factory workers who developed lung problems after spraying paints infused with nanoparticles? Here’s my favorite headline: “Trail of Death Leads Doctors to Nanoparticles.” Even the worst supermarket tabloid should blush at that kind of claptrap. [...]
Nanoparticle protects oil in foods from oxidation, spoilage
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Using a nanoparticle from corn, a Purdue University scientist has found a way to lengthen the shelf life of many food products and sustain their health benefits.
Yuan Yao, an assistant professor of food science, has successfully modified the phytoglycogen nanoparticle, a starchlike substance that makes up nearly 30 percent of the [...]
Nanotechnology to end insulin injections for diabetics
Insulin injections may soon be a thing of the past for diabetics thanks to nano-technology. At UCSF Professor of bioengineering, Tejal Desai, implants millions of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin into tiny capsules that can be implanted into the body in an effort to create an artificial pancreas.
When blood sugar flows inside the capsule, it [...]
Aura Biosciences Targets a New Era of Cancer Drugs
A Boston-based startup founded by a Spanish molecular biologist has devised a precise way to deliver chemotherapies inside nanotech protein shields.
Elisabet de los Pinos’ father always told her that molecular biology—a field that overlaps with genetics and biochemistry—would someday transform the way cancer is treated. But the Barcelona-based pediatrician never dreamed his own daughter’s scientific [...]
