NanoMedicine Revolution

Swedish researchers can now read signals from ultrathin electrodes implanted in a living brain. If supported by funds from President Obama’s brain study, the nanotechnology may lead to major developments in treating neural conditions.

Pesquisadores da Universidade da Califórnia, nos Estados Unidos, estão experimentando novo medicamento que permitiria eliminar o álcool do corpo em poucas horas. A pílula, divulgada na revista Nature Nanotechnology, já conseguiu resultados positivos em ratos de laboratório.

Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now been able to identify the grass pollen molecule, against which the allergic response of hay fever in children is initiated. In addition, it was shown that the first individual antibodies generated in children against individual pollen molecules can be identified even before the initial symptoms of a pollen allergy are developed.

A degradable nanoscale shell to carry proteins to cancer cells and stunt the growth of tumors without damaging healthy cells has been developed by a team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

For highly efficient removal of cytokines from the blood, it is imperative to design the best possible filtration materials, and carbon materials are prime candidates for this task due to their compatibility with blood plasma. Only highly tunable nanoporous materials can be manipulated to match the pore size to the cytokine molecule size and to obtain optimized adsorption performance.

The gates of the exhibition Nano Tech 2013 in Tokyo are wide open. One of the exhibitors, representing nanotechnology innovations from the Czech Republic, is Contipro Biotech, which is presenting the world premiere of its new device for the production of nanofibers, called 4SPIN®. The device is intended for the production of nanofibers suitable for use both in industry and medicine.

The “Small Young Innovator Awards” were presented to Professor Ali Khademhosseini and Professor Hua Zhang during the recent “Small Science Symposium: Frontiers in Nanomedicine” held in Singapore from 10 – 12 December 2012. Both of them presented their prize lectures to 300 delegates during the symposium.

A team at Northwestern University has killed cancerous lymphoma cells by feeding them gold nanoparticles that mimic a type of cholesterol called high-density lipoprotein.

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Theranostics is a combination of diagnostics and therapeutics. To advance theranostics, validating the attributes of nanomaterials utilized in the delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic agents is important. Assessing the attributes of nanomaterials reduces the risk of potential consequences. With its capability of engineered nanomaterial analysis, RJ Lee Group helps customers to check whether their nanomaterials meet specifications.

In a new discovery that represents a major step in solving a critical design challenge, Arizona State University Professor Hao Yan has led a research team to produce a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D structures that push the boundaries of the burgeoning field of DNA nanotechnology.

Click chemistry on nucleic acids is clean, efficient, tolerant of most other functional groups, and compatible with large scale synthesis. Very long DNA and RNA strands have already been synthesized using this methodology, and the limits have not yet been fully explored. Careful design has given rise to a biocompatible triazole linkage that is treated as normal by DNA and RNA polymerases, and a gene containing triazole linkages has been shown to function in E. coli. These surprising results could lead to important future applications in biology and nanotechnology. For example, one could contemplate the use of click DNA ligation for the assembly of synthetic genes on a large scale; for site-specific incorporation of unusual base or sugar modifications (e.g., mutation hot spots, epigenetic modifications) to study DNA replication, repair, and gene regulation, or to incorporate chemical modifications such as fluorescent dyes for in vivo imaging.

Some deploy gold, polymer or magnetic nanoparticles to ferry anti-cancer drugs to the heart of diseased cells. Others use nanoparticles to literally explode cancerous cells. A few adopt a Trojan-horse approach, infusing nanoparticles with special molecules that degrade the ability of cancer cells to defeat the immune system.

The behavior of cells strongly depends on their environment. If they are to be researched and manipulated, it is crucial to embed them in suitable surroundings. Aleksandr Ovsianikov is developing a laser system, which allows living cells to be incorporated into intricate taylor-made structures, similar to biological tissue, in which cells are surrounded by the extracellular matrix. This technology is particularly important for artificially growing biotissue, for finding new drugs or for stem cell research.

A new nanotechnology centre at Bahrain University will soon be up and running, the facilities of which will be used to research new ways to treat cancer.

Nanotechnological tools for tissue engineering may help design advanced nanocomposite scaffolds that can better mimic the ECM and eventually assemble more complex and larger functional tissues.

FEI today announced the availability of its Tecnai Arctica™ transmission electron microscope (TEM) for structural biology research. The Tecnai Arctica incorporates sophisticated automation, pioneered on FEI’s flagship Titan Krios™ TEM, to elucidate the three-dimensional (3D) structure of biological macromolecules and molecular complexes.

The four firms have signed a memorandum of intent to develop a strategy to launch production of carbon fiber intermediates, composites materials and solutions in Russia.

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