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V-chip pocket test measures 50 things in a drop of blood

By Damir Beciri
2 Comments30 December 2012

v-chip-blood-testUp until recent years, blood tests have been performed on large, complex, and expensive equipment such as mass spectrometers, or require fluoroscopy analysis which must be done in a lab, but various groups of researchers are developing low-cost and portable solutions. Researchers at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute and MD Anderson Cancer Center developed V-chip… »

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IBM researchers made nanomedicine breakthrough

By Damir Beciri
One Comment12 April 2011

ibm-treated-cellResearchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have discovered that new types of polymers are able to physically detect and destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and infectious diseases. These agents also prevent the bacteria from developing drug resistance by actually breaking through the bacterial cell wall and membrane, a fundamentally different mode of attack… »

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New nanoscopic material enables adults to regenerate cartilage

By Damir Beciri
9 Comments15 February 2010

knee-cartilage_0Amateur athletes, professional athletes and people whose joints have just worn out endure health problems, since humans are unable to regenerate cartilage once they are adults and often have to live with painful joints or osteoarthritis. Luckily, Northwestern University researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage… »

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NOMFET – an organic transistor that mimics a brain synapse

By Damir Beciri
3 Comments12 February 2010

digital-brainScientists have great expectations that nanotechnologies will bring them closer to the goal of creating computer systems that can simulate and emulate the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition while rivaling its low power consumption and compact size. Nanotechnology researchers in France have developed a hybrid nanoparticle-organic transistor that can mimic the… »

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Nanotechnology puts an end to toxic whole-body chemoterapy?

By Damir Beciri
19 June 2009

nanoparticle-chemotherapyNanoparticles specially engineered by J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues from University of Central Florida, could someday target and destroy tumors as well as spare the patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies. Perez and his team used a drug called Taxol for their cell culture studies because it is one of the most widely used chemotherapeutic… »