Researchers from various organizations and universities including The University of British Columbia (UBC), Alnylam, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals and Alcana Technologies have recently come out with a publication in the journal Nature Biotechnology, where they have claimed that the systematic approach in lipid nanoparticles can lead better delivery of RNAi Therapeutics.
Researchers in their new paper, which was [...]
A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL), have demonstrated how an incredible material, graphene, could hold the key to the future of high-speed electronics, such as micro-chips and touchscreen [...]
Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School have built targeted nanoparticles that can cling to artery walls and slowly release medicine, an advance that potentially provides an alternative to drug-releasing stents in some patients with cardiovascular disease.
Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School have built targeted nanoparticles that can cling to artery walls and slowly release medicine, an advance that potentially provides an alternative to drug-releasing stents in some patients with cardiovascular disease.
Fuel consumption is growing throughout the globe, however production of the convention non-renewable fuel or energy is constant and further the resources of petroleum and coal based energy are limited and therefore worldwide researchers are looking for alternates of petroleum and coal based energy and biofuel is one of them. Researchers are working on various [...]
Gold nanoparticles have been found in a number of applications including the diagnosis and treatment of number of human diseases including cancer, however their interaction with human blood proteins have been studied first time. Scientists at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have now studied and quantified the interaction of gold nanoparticles with human [...]
Boron nitride nanotubes have been notoriously difficult to grow, requiring special instrumentation, dangerous chemistry, or temperatures of over 1,500 degrees Celsius to assemble. As it turns out, they just needed a little encouragement. Now, Michigan Tech physicist Yoke Khin Yap has created virtual Persian carpets of the tiny fibers on substrates made from simple catalysts.
A Northwestern University study shows that coupling a magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal intensity and thus vivid image contrast. The researchers say it is a game-changing event for sensitivity and the first published report of nanodiamonds being imaged by MRI technology. The gadolinium(III)-nanodiamond complex demonstrated a greater [...]
The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) have recently awarded $123 million grants. The grants will be utilized by 11 universities and one non-profit research organization for creating new scientific research facilities in their institutions. All the 12 projects are from variety of fields including wind power to nanotechnology and will start investing money [...]
A strip of paper infused with carbon nanotubes can quickly and inexpensively detect a toxin produced by algae in drinking water.
