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Remote Magnetic Field Triggers Nanoparticle Drug Release
Magnetic nanoparticles heated by a remote magnetic field have the potential to release multiple anticancer drugs on demand at the site of a tumor, according to a study published in the journal Advanced Materials. [ read more ]

Tracking Targeted siRNA Nanoparticles With In Vivo Imaging
Using nanoparticles tagged with both a fluorescent label and a radioactive isotope of the element copper, a team of investigators at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has shown that targeting siRNA-containing nanoparticles to tumors increases tumor uptake rather than tumor localization. [ read more ]

Implantable Microfluidic Device Could Detect Cancer Markers
A tiny implant now being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could one day help doctors rapidly monitor the growth of tumors and the progress of chemotherapy in cancer patients. [ read more ]

Mining Tiny Diamonds for Drug Delivery
Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds are effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs to cells without the negative effects associated with current drug delivery agents. [ read more ]

Oligonucleotides Create Versatile Coating for Nanoscale Imaging Agents
Nanoparticles made of metals such as gold or iron oxide show tremendous promise as contrast agents for molecular imaging, but turning promise into clinical utility requires adding tumor targeting molecules to the surfaces of these nanoparticles. [ read more ]

Nanoparticle Images and Treats Cancer, Reports on Drug Delivery
Using a quantum dot plus an aptamer that doubles as a tether for the anticancer drug doxorubicin, a team of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has developed a multifunctional nanoparticle that not only treats cancer but also images those tumors that have received drug therapy. [ read more ]

SOURCE: NANOTECHWEB.ORG NEWSWIRE (WEEK 45)

TECHNOLOGY UPDATE

JPK translates BioSPM skills into sales success Putting engineers in the same room as biologists is essential when it comes to developing tools for the life sciences

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/31751

Tiny rods steer themselves

First experimental example of chemotaxis outside biological systems http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/31740

Cluster crashes produce nanodiamond

Energetic heavy ions turn graphite into nanodiamond

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/31749

CNT electrodes go transparent

Foldable film is a prime candidate for flexible electronics

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/31738

Tiny diamonds deliver anti-cancer drugs

Technique might also help to fight tuberculosis or viral infections

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/31725

IN DEPTH

Sponsored by Symposium on Surface and Nano Science 2008 (SSNS'08) The 2008 meeting will be held in Appi, Iwate, Japan, at the Appi Grand Hotel, on January 22-25, 2008. This symposium will cover all of the fields of surface and nano science.

http://ssns08.surf.nuqe.nagoya-u.ac.jp/index-e.html

Nanotechnology cleans up fouling

nanotechweb.org speaks with Jim Callow, coordinator of AMBIO, to find out some of the EURO 18 million project's early success stories

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/indepth/31723

SOURCE: NanoNews-Now Digest #156 Ready

Foolish Book Review: "An Empire of Wealth"
fool.com November 5th, 2007 Late last week, promising nanotechnology company Nanosphere (Nasdaq: NSPH) went public. It is already trading about 40% higher, in large part because of its potential to transform the field of molecular diagnostics. My advice, however, is to think of the field of nanotechnology today as being where the railroad industry was in 1830, when there were only 23 miles of track -- it is only going to grow larger from here on out. The patient investor could be handsomely rewarded.

A Giant Step toward Infinitesimal Machinery
Caltech November 6th, 2007 What are the ultimate limits to miniaturization? How small can machinery--with internal workings that move, turn, and vibrate--be produced? What is the smallest scale on which computers can be built? With uncanny and characteristic insight, these are questions that the legendary Caltech physicist Richard Feynman asked himself in the period leading up to a famous 1959 lecture, the first on a topic now called nanotechnology. In a newly announced global Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI (very-large-scale integration), researchers at Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) in Pasadena, California, and at the Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information-Micro- and Nano-Technologies (CEA/LETI-MINATEC) in Grenoble, France, are working together to take the pursuit of this vision to an entirely new level.

Breakthrough toward industrial-scale production of nanodevices
American Chemical Society November 7th, 2007 Scientists in Maryland are reporting an important advance toward the long-sought goal of industrial-scale fabrication of nanowire-based devices like ultra-sensitive sensors, light emitting diodes, and transistors for inexpensive, high-performance electronics products. The study is scheduled for the current issue of ACS' Chemistry of Materials, a bi-weekly journal.

Developing Kryptonite for Superbug: University of Idaho Scientists' Nanoelectronics, Nanomaterials, and Staphylococcus Aureus Research Efforts Generat
University of Idaho November 8th, 2007 University of Idaho researchers are crossing academic and geographical bounds to develop more effective defenses against Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and other deadly pathogens.

$14mn fund to be set up for nanotechnology research
gulf-times.com November 8th, 2007 India and the executive arm of the European Union will set up a corpus fund of 10mn euros ($14.7mn) for research in nanotechnology, a top European Commission official said. "We are for a joint call which will focus on collaborative research. The effort will receive support of about 5mn euros from each party," the commission's director general for research, Jose Manuel Silva Rodriguez, said at a news briefing in New Delhi on Wednesday.

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