Image: Human breast cancer cell tagged with quantum dots
Cancer Nanomedicine is developing to cover a wide range of applications from imaging, diagnosing to treating cancers with targeted therapies. Cancer Nanomedicine works on the theory that nanometer sized particles of gold, nanomicelles and quantum dots (QDs) have unique functional properties that differ from other available discrete [...]
Nanopaprika.eu was started back in 2007 by a Hungarian Chemistry PhD student Andras Paszternak. The website provides a great deal of communication and networking tools. Since 2007 the Nanopaprika community has grown to 2000+ members.
This virtual international nanoscience community (TINC) comes equipped with personal chat and scientific forums ranging from Microscopy to Nanomedicine. The site [...]
Understandingnano.com was started when Earl Boysen (co-author of Nanotechnology for Dummies) observed the need for a website with easy to understand explanations on a wide variety of nanotechnology applications. Understandingnano.com provides clear and concise information that is accessible to people who may not have expertise in Nanotechnology.
It is especially pleasing to see that Understandingnano.com has a whole [...]
One of the most common causes of death relating to cancer in patients with solid tumours is caused by tumour cells that break off from primary tumours. They can travel to other organs and tissues in the body and set up secondary tumour colonies known as metastasise. These cells once in the peripheral bloodstream are known [...]
NanoMedicine will revolutionise the way we view and treat disease.
If Medical Nanotechnology were to only achieve a fraction of its potential it would provide a new era of health and longevity for human life.
NanoMedicine would provide a way of detecting disease before patients would even display symptoms and provide a way of treating that disease [...]
Nanotechnology is the term given to the study of matter control at an atomic and molecular level. Nanotechnology is loosely defined as structures, which are smaller than 100 nanometres also known as 10-9.
One of the prominent problems still facing nanotechnology is how it should be defined. Most definitions include the study and control of phenomena [...]
In essence Nano medicine is the application of Nanotechnology in Medicine, which can also be termed Medical Nanotechnology.
Nano Meidcine describes the highly specific treatment of disease at the molecular level.
Nanotechnology has many perspective applications in Medicine ranging from nano-silver paint for bacterial growth prevention to medical imaging and treatment of disease.
There are very exciting new [...]
Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a simple and importantly inexpensive method for loading nano-scale delivery vehicles with cancer drug payloads. This nanoformulation was shown to eliminate tumours after a single treatment. In a great step forward for limiting toxicity the nano-scale delivery vehicle breaks down into harmless byproducts after delivery of the drug.
These nano-delivery systems [...]
CLINAM: The third conference for clinical nanomedicine will give an insight into state of the art clinical nanomedicine and will report the most recent findings in the field.
The conference will introduce the unsolved medical problems that are awaiting novel techniques for addressing them. From this base the debate will turn to how nanotechnologies involvement could help [...]
Professor Errki Ruoslahti of the University of California Santa Barbara’s Burnham Institute for Medical Research has been awarded $2.8 million to develop ‘Hybrid nanotechnologies for detection and synergistic therapies of breast cancer’.
The research team are developing new diagnostic tools to improve early detection, and reduce unnecessary procedures. This will be achieved through the use of [...]
