Nanomedicine
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Nanomedicine
Topical Skin Lotion to Detect Variety of Disease Biomarkers
Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a new way of utilizing nanotechnology to detect important biomarkers within the skin using what looks like a simple lotion. Their NanoFlares, which are...
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Metal Based Detector of Dopamine Receptors May Help Identify Early Signs of Cancer
At Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), researchers have created the first metal-based probes for spotting dopamine receptors. While dopamine is best known as a neurotransmitter that plays a major role in defining our mood, dopamine receptors seem...
Nanomedicine
Easy Method of Separating Chiral Drug Molecules Discovered
The chiral difference between two molecules often plays a huge role in pharmacology and physiology, even though the two seem nearly identical. The difference, simply that they're mirror images of each other, turns out to mean, for example, that some...
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Thousands of Tiny Microfluidic Chips Create Perfectly Sized Drug Particles
While a drug's chemical makeup determines what impact it will have on the body (pharmacodynamics), it is often the shell that it's encapsulated in that defines how fast the drug will be released, the location of that release, and even how...
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Mathematicians Create Computer Simulation of Burn Wounds to Improve Treatment
A team of mathematicians has been working on improving how special microbeads can be used to stop bacterial infestations of burn wounds. Microbeads coated with a protein used by bacteria to stick to cells seem to make the bacteria bind less to...
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Fluorescent Particles Bind to Cancer Cells to Spot and Diagnose Tumors
Mammograms have become extremely useful in identifying suspect lesions that may be cancer, but biopsies are still required to actually find out whether the tissue is cancerous. Researchers at University of Michigan have developed a molecule,...
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Brain's Mysteries May Be Revealed with MIT's Neuron Activity Sensor
Functional MRI (fMRI) imaging has provided an amazing look into the activities happening inside the brain. Specifically, it allows scientists to study intra cerebral blood flow under the scalp, which is indicative of the goings-on of neurons in...
Nanomedicine
Bacteria Carrying Red Blood Cells as Microswimmers to Deliver Drugs Inside Body
Man-made nano and micro particles are a dime a dozen these days, with all sorts of mechanisms built-in to deliver drugs, help spot cancer, and destroy tumors. Now researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have...
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Remote-Controlled Signal Activates T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a technique to remotely activate genetically-modified T cells to attack cancer. The method employs a near-infrared laser that heats gold nanorods present in the tumor, causing local heating. This heat...
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