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Biotech
on August 7, 2008
Many effective drugs never enter the market because of Toxicity and safety issues. An old cancer drug called TNP-470 was being researched in 1990, but clinical studies were stopped when neurologic tox...
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on July 24, 2008
Wouldn't it be great if we could just grow new organs? It sounds like science fiction if you could grow a new kidney and transplant that organ. Bioengineers are working aggressively to re-create h...
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on July 22, 2008
When cancer spreads, this is called metastases and it can be devastating. Metastatic cancer means that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, including organs like the liver, brain, bones, ...
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on July 8, 2008
Have you heard of the Nanopump? Well, Debiotech in Switzerland is developing the Nanopump to micro-dose medications by utilizing a volumetric membrane pump with a pair of check valves and integrating ...
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on July 2, 2008
We've been seeing a lot of news lately about fake drugs. It seems so inhumane to be distributing fake drugs to people who may need these life-saving agents. Well, a company called NanoInk is deve...
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Biotech
on June 20, 2008
If you've been following any nanotechnology news, you've probably seen this term called "apoptosis." What does this word mean? Programmed cell death. That's right. Our cells kno...
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on June 13, 2008
Human cells are covered by a protective membrane. Generally speaking, if that membrane is penetrated, then the cell may rupture and die. However, scientists have created a nanoparticle that can enter...
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on June 3, 2008
Wow, what a fascinating title! "Filamentous Artificial Virus from a Self-Assembled Discrete Nanoribbon."
Researchers at the Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea have been developing an artif...
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Biotech
on May 19, 2008
You may think that I'm a biased blogger since I went to MIT. However, so many of the advances in nanotechnology are happening at MIT, so I can't help but get excited about all these developme...
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on December 28, 2006
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have developed bone and muscle cells using a custom-designed ink-jet printer. The team has succeeded in bioprinting from adul...
