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#Computing at the speed of light: Utah engineers take big step toward much faster computers The Utah engineers have developed an ultracompact beamsplitter--the smallest on record--for dividing light waves into two separate channels of information.


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New device offers clues Why do some cancer cells break away from a tumor and travel to distant parts of the body?

A team of oncologists and engineers from the University of Michigan teamed up to help understand this crucial question.

2015 Cancer becomes deadly when it spreads, or metastasizes. Not all cells have the same ability to travel through the body,

The differences in individual cancer cells are a key aspect of how cancer evolves becomes resistant to current therapies or recurs."

"A primary tumor is not what kills patients. Metastases are what kill patients. Understanding which cells are likely to metastasize can help us direct more targeted therapies to patients,

"says co-senior study author Sofia D. Merajver, M d.,Ph d.,scientific director of the breast oncology program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The researchers believe this type of device might some day help doctors understand an individual patient's cancer.

Which cells in this patient's tumor are really causing havoc? Is there a large population of aggressive cells?

Are there specific markers or variants on those individual cells that could be targeted with treatment?"

"This work demonstrates an elegant approach to the study of cancer cell metastasis by combining expertise in engineering

"In this work, extensive studies were performed on cell lines representing various types of cancer. The new device was designed to trace how cells move, sorting individual cells by their movement.

and appearance under the microscope of metastatic cells and expressed significantly higher levels of markers associated with metastatic cancer."

"Understanding specific differences that lead some cancer cells to leave the primary tumor and seed metastases is of great benefit to develop

Patients seeking more information about their options for cancer treatment can call the U-M Cancer Answerline at 800-865-1125 5


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and even medicine. Now a team of Northwestern University researchers has found a way to print three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.

The fast and efficient method could open up new opportunities for using graphene printed scaffolds regenerative engineering and other electronic or medical applications.

assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern's Mccormick School of engineering and of surgery in the Feinberg School of medicine,

"Supported by a Google Gift and a Mccormick Research Catalyst Award, the research is described in the paper"Three-dimensional printing of high-content graphene scaffolds for electronic and biomedical applications,"published in the April

so it could be used for biodegradable sensors and medical implants. Shah said the biocompatible elastomer


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and at the same time absence of toxicity and flammability, and the possibility to recover oil. The creation of this graphene-based oil-adsorbent product, commercialized as Grafysorber,

2015effective Nano-Micelles Designed in Iran to Treat Cancer May 20th, 2015announcements SUNY Poly CNSE and NIOSH Launch Federal Nano Health and Safety Consortium:

2015effective Nano-Micelles Designed in Iran to Treat Cancer May 20th, 2015environment Nano-policing pollution May 13th, 2015chemists strike nano-gold:


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Many thousands of times thinner than the average human hair, nanofibers are used by medical researchers to create advanced wound dressings--and for tissue regeneration

drug testing, stem cell therapies and the delivery of drugs directly to the site of infection.

Nanofibers can also be loaded with proteins, nanotubes, fluorescent materials and therapeutic agents.""We can use almost any kind of polymer with this platform,

2015nanomedicine Effective Nano-Micelles Designed in Iran to Treat Cancer May 20th, 2015nature inspires first artificial molecular pump:

Simple design mimics pumping mechanism of life-sustaining proteins found in living cells May 19th, 2015studying dynamics of ion channels May 18th, 2015organic nanoparticles, more lethal to tumors:

Carbon-based nanoparticles could be used to sensitize cancerous tumors to proton radiotherapy and induce more focused destruction of cancer cells, a new study shows May 18th,

2015effective Nano-Micelles Designed in Iran to Treat Cancer May 20th, 2015materials/Metamaterials Taking control of light emission:

, more lethal to tumors: Carbon-based nanoparticles could be used to sensitize cancerous tumors to proton radiotherapy

and induce more focused destruction of cancer cells, a new study shows May 18th, 2015wearables may get boost from boron-infused graphene:

May 6th, 2015improving Clinical Care and Patient Quality of life in Advanced Liver disease, d-LIVER Workshop, Milan, 27 may 2015 May 6th, 201 0


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#Nanotechnology identifies brain tumor types through MRI'virtual biopsy'in animal studies: If results are confirmed in humans,

tumor cells could someday be diagnosed by MRI imaging and treated with tumor-specific IV injections;

new NIH grant will fund future study Abstract: Biomedical researchers at Cedars-Sinai have invented a tiny drug-delivery system that can identify cancer cell types in the brain through"virtual biopsies

"and then attack the molecular structure of the disease. If laboratory research with mice is borne out in human studies,

the results could be used to deliver nanoscale drugs that can distinguish and fight tumor cells in the brain without resorting to surgery."

"Our nanodrug can be engineered to carry a variety of drugs, proteins and genetic materials to attack tumors on several fronts from within the brain,"said Julia Ljubimova, MD, Phd,

professor of neurosurgery and biomedical sciences at Cedars-Sinai and a lead author of an article published online in the American Chemical Society's journal ACS Nano.

Ljubimova, director of the Nanomedicine Research center in the Department of Neurosurgery and director of the Nanomedicine Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, has received a $2. 5 million grant from the National institutes of health to continue the research.

The drug delivery system and its component parts together called a nanobioconjugate or nanodrug, is in an emerging class of molecular drugs designed to slow

or stop cancers by blocking them in multiple ways within the brain. The drug is about 20 to 30 nanometers in size-a fraction of a human hair,

such as seeking out cancer cells and binding to them, permeating the walls of blood vessels and tumor cells,

or dismantling molecular mechanisms that promote tumor growth, "said Eggehard Holler, Phd, professor of neurosurgery and director of nanodrug synthesis at Cedars-Sinai.

The new delivery system plays two roles: diagnosing brain tumors by identifying cells that have spread to the brain from other organs,

and then fighting the cancer with precise, individualized tumor treatment. Researchers can determine tumor type by attaching a tracer visible on an MRI.

If the tracer accumulates in the tumor, it will be visible on MRI. With the cancer's molecular makeup identified through this virtual biopsy,

researches can load the"delivery system"with cancer-targeting components that specifically attack the molecular structure.

To show that the virtual biopsies could distinguish one cancer cell type from another, the researchers devised what is believed to be a unique method,

implanting different kinds of breast and lung cancers into laboratory mice to represent metastatic disease-with one type of cancer implanted on each side of the brain.

Lung and breast cancers are those that most often spread to the brain. The researchers used the nano delivery system to identify

and attack the cancers. In each instance, animals that received treatment lived significantly longer than those in control groups."

"Several drugs are quite effective in treating different types of breast cancers, lung cancer, lymphoma and other cancers at their original sites,

but they are ineffective against cancers that spread to the brain because they are not able to cross the blood-brain barrier that protects the brain from toxins in the blood,

"said Keith Black, MD, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, director of the Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr.,

Brain tumor Center and the Ruth and Lawrence Harvey Chair in Neuroscience.""The nanodrug is engineered to cross this barrier with its payload intact,

so drugs that are effective outside the brain may be effective inside as well,"Black added.#####Ljubimova, Black and Holler led the study

and contributed equally to the article. Rameshwar Patil, Phd, a project scientist in Ljubimova's laboratory, is first author.

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai's Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Biomedical sciences, Department of Imaging, and the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute contributed to the study with colleagues from the University of Southern California and Arrogene Inc,

. a biotech company associated with Cedars-Sinai. The study was supported by NIH grants U01 CA151815, R01 CA136841, R01 CA188743,

The new NIH National Cancer Institute grant R01ca188743, will fund ongoing study.#####For more information, please click herecontacts:

"MRI Virtual Biopsy and Treatment of Brain Metastatic tumors with Targeted Nanobioconjugates.""Publication Date (Web: April 23, 2015.

May 27th, 2015fine-tuned molecular orientation is key to more efficient solar cells May 26th, 2015cancer Iranian Scientists Use Magnetic field to Transfer Anticancer Drug to Tumor Tissue May 24th,

The photonics advancement could improve early cancer detection, nanoelectronics manufacturing and scientists'ability to observe single molecules May 23rd,

The photonics advancement could improve early cancer detection, nanoelectronics manufacturing and scientists'ability to observe single molecules May 23rd, 2015aspen Aerogels to Present at the Cowen and Company Technology,

Synthetic pieces of biological molecule form framework and glue for making nanoparticle clusters and arrays May 25th, 2015nanostructures Increase Corrosion resistance in Metallic Body Implants May 24th, 2015iranian

Scientists Use Magnetic field to Transfer Anticancer Drug to Tumor Tissue May 24th, 2015discoveries Who needs water to assemble DNA?

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foam-like battery material that can withstand shock and stress.""It is possible to make incredible materials from trees


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135 K) which caused the"high-Tc fever"in the world 30 years ago, it obviously exceeds the record of other"high-Tc superconductors"such as fullerene (C60) superconductors (Tc 33 K) and Mgb2 (Tc 39k),


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"finding a nanothermometer sensitive enough at this scale is a great step forward in the field of nanotechnology, with applications in biology, chemistry, physics and even in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases


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Molecular machines, novel sensors, bionic materials, quantum computers, advanced therapies and much more can emerge from this endeavour.


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ICN2 researchers led by ICREA Prof Sergio O. Valenzuela have investigated hot carrier propagation across graphene using an electrical nonlocal injection/detection method.

diffuse away from the injection point and are detected electrically in a remote voltage probe by measuring the thermoelectric voltage.


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Iranian researchers produced biocompatible and biodegradable nanocomposite scaffolds by using a type of natural silk with no cellular toxicity observed in the experiments.

It can also be used in the production of artificial skin or other medical stuff. In this research, nanocomposite scaffold was made of silk fibroin,

In addition, no sign of toxicity has been observed at the laboratorial scale. Results of the research have been published in RSC Advances,


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2015new sensing tech could help detect diseases, fraudulent art, chemical weapons June 1st, 2015thin coating on condensers could make power plants more efficient:


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News and information A step towards a type 1 diabetes vaccine by using nanotherapy June 10th, 2015investigation of Optical Properties of Quantum dots in Presence of Magnetic, Electrical Fields June 10th,

2015discoveries A step towards a type 1 diabetes vaccine by using nanotherapy June 10th, 2015investigation of Optical Properties of Quantum dots in Presence of Magnetic, Electrical Fields June 10th,

2015announcements A step towards a type 1 diabetes vaccine by using nanotherapy June 10th, 2015investigation of Optical Properties of Quantum dots in Presence of Magnetic, Electrical Fields June 10th,

2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers A step towards a type 1 diabetes vaccine by using nanotherapy June 10th,


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but buckled due to changes of the internal stress in the layer during the etching process.


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#New Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug Iranian researchers from Isfahan University of Technology produced a highly sensitive and accurate sensor

which can measure a type of blood anticoagulation drug. The sensor was produced through a simple

Protamine is an important drug that is used as an anti-heparin agent to prevent blood coagulation during cardiovascular surgeries.

In addition to its high speed, this sensor minimizes environmental pollution due to the use of very low concentration of quantum dots in the production of the sensor and the lack of the need for toxic and organic solvents.


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#Biomedical breakthrough: Carbon nanoparticles you can make at home Abstract: Researchers have found an easy way to produce carbon nanoparticles that are small enough to evade the body's immune system,

"The team tested the therapeutic potential of the nanoparticles by loading them with an anti-melanoma drug

In further experiments, the researchers found they could alter the infusion of the particles into melanoma cells by adjusting the polymer coatings.

"This is a versatile platform to carry a multitude of drugs-for melanoma, for other kinds of cancers and for other diseases,

so you can do multidrug therapy with the same particles.""""By using defined surface chemistry,

and are affiliated with Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois.##For more information, please click herecontacts:

The paper,"Tunable luminescent carbon nanospheres with well-defined nanoscale chemistry for synchronized imaging and therapy,"is available online:

2015cellulose from wood can be printed in 3-D June 17th, 2015new Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug June 17th, 2015discoveries Scientists film shock waves in diamond:

Method could be useful in developing green energy and a better understanding of rust June 18th, 2015new Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug June 17th,

Method could be useful in developing green energy and a better understanding of rust June 18th, 2015new Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug June 17th,


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#Nanowire implants offer remote-controlled drug delivery Abstract: Remote-controlled Eradication of Astrogliosis in Spinal cord Injury via Electromagnetically-induced Dexamethasone Release from"Smart"Nanowireswen Gao and Richard Borgenswe describe a system to deliver drugs to selected tissues continuously,

if required, for weeks. Drugs can be released remotely inside the small animals using pre-implanted,

and deposited onto a spinal cord lesion in Glial fibrillary acidic protein-luc Transgenic mices (GFAP-luc mice). Overexpression of GFAP is an indicator of astrogliosis/neuroinflammation in CNS injury.

The corticosteroid DEX, a powerful ameliorator of inflammation, was released from the polymer by external application of an Electromagnetic field for 2 hours/day for a week.

and non-invasively, opening the door to many other known therapies, such as the cases that dexamethasone cannot be applied safely systemically in large concentrations.

and wires required by other implantable devices that can lead to infection and other complications, said team leader Richard Borgens, Purdue University's Mari Hulman George Professor of Applied Neuroscience and director of Purdue's Center for Paralysis Research."

"This tool allows us to apply drugs as needed directly to the site of injury, which could have broad medical applications,

"Borgens said.""The technology is in the early stages of testing, but it is our hope that this could one day be used to deliver drugs directly to spinal cord injuries, ulcerations, deep bone injuries or tumors,

and avoid the terrible side effects of systemic treatment with steroids or chemotherapy.""The team tested the drug-delivery system in mice with compression injuries to their spinal cords

and administered the corticosteroid dexamethasone. The study measured a molecular marker of inflammation and scar formation in the central nervous system and found that it was reduced after one week of treatment.

A paper detailing the results will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Controlled Release

Wen Gao, a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Paralysis Research who worked on the project with Borgens

and transported a patch of the nanowire carpet on water droplets that were used used to deliver it to the site of injury.

The nanowire patches adhere to the site of injury through surface tension Gao said. The magnitude and wave form of the electromagnetic field must be tuned to obtain the optimum release of the drug,

Youngnam Cho, a former faculty member at Purdue's Center for Paralysis Research; and Jianming Li, a research assistant professor at the center.

GFAP is expressed in cells called astrocytes that gather in high numbers at central nervous system injuries. Astrocytes are a part of the inflammatory process and form a scar tissue,

A 1-2 millimeter patch of the nanowires doped with dexamethasone was placed onto spinal cord lesions that had been exposed surgically,

The lesions were closed then and an electromagnetic field was applied for two hours a day for one week.

###The research was funded through the general funds of the Center for Paralysis Research and an endowment from Mrs. Mari Hulman George. Borgens has a dual appointment in Purdue's College of Engineering and the College of Veterinary medicine.##

Cancer Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015news and information Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids:

New technique creates multilayered, self-assembled grids with fully customizable shapes and compositions June 23rd,

2015nanomedicine Nanoparticle'wrapper'delivers chemical that stops fatty buildup in rodent arteries Experimental therapy restores normal fat metabolism in animals with atherosclerosis June 23rd, 2015picosun ALD

breaks through in medical technology June 23rd, 2015nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd,

2015newly-Developed Biosensor in Iran Detects Cocaine addiction June 23rd, 2015discoveries Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids:

New technique creates multilayered, self-assembled grids with fully customizable shapes and compositions June 23rd,

2015iranian Scientists Design Nano Device to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd, 2015announcements Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids:

New technique creates multilayered, self-assembled grids with fully customizable shapes and compositions June 23rd,

2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers Nanoparticle'wrapper'delivers chemical that stops fatty buildup in rodent arteries Experimental therapy restores normal fat metabolism

2015nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015iranian Scientists Design Nano Device to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd,201 0


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#Physicists fine-tune control of agile exotic materials: Tunable hybrid polaritons realized with graphene layer on hexagonal boron nitride Abstract:

to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd, 2015imaging Robust new process forms 3-D shapes from flat sheets of graphene June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids:

and the Environment June 24th, 2015nanoparticle'wrapper'delivers chemical that stops fatty buildup in rodent arteries Experimental therapy restores normal fat metabolism in animals with atherosclerosis June 23rd,

4-D printing to advance chemistry, materials sciences and defense capabilities June 18th, 2015discoveries Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together

2015iranian Scientists Design Nano Device to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd, 2015materials/Metamaterials n-tech Research Issues Report on Smart Coatings Market

to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd, 2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers n-tech Research Issues Report on Smart Coatings Market

2015iranian Scientists Design Nano Device to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd, 2015military Iranian Scientists Design Nano Device to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd,

2015scientists Create Synthetic Membranes That Grow Like Living Cells June 22nd, 2015discovery paves way for new kinds of superconducting electronics June 22nd,


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bio-inspired process unlike current approaches that rely on high temperatures, pressures, toxic solvents and expensive precursors,

In particular, current chemical synthesis methods use high temperatures and toxic solvents, which make environmental remediation expensive and challenging.

or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.

News and information Scientists highlight the importance of nanoscale hybrid materials for noninvasive cancer diagnosis June 24th,

and the Environment June 24th, 2015discoveries Scientists highlight the importance of nanoscale hybrid materials for noninvasive cancer diagnosis June 24th,

2015iranian Scientists Design Nano Device to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd, 2015materials/Metamaterials Physicists fine-tune control of agile exotic materials:

2015announcements Scientists highlight the importance of nanoscale hybrid materials for noninvasive cancer diagnosis June 24th, 2015physicists fine-tune control of agile exotic materials:

and the Environment June 24th, 2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers Scientists highlight the importance of nanoscale hybrid materials for noninvasive cancer diagnosis June 24th,


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This method is based on the standards of green chemistry due to the use of biological and green reactants instead of toxic chemicals and contaminants.

use of biological reactant and elimination of toxic and polluting materials and solvents are among the most important advantages of the proposed method.

and medical industries due to their properties, including semi-conductivity, being piezoelectric and pyroelectric and biocompatibility.


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and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U s. Department of energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences,


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News and information June 29th, 2015efforts to Use Smart Nanocarriers to Cure Leukemia Yield Promising Results June 29th, 2015making new materials with micro-explosions:

A novel microscope for nanosystems June 25th, 2015iranian Researchers Synthesize Nanostructures with Controlled Shape, Structure June 25th, 2015discoveries June 29th, 2015efforts to Use Smart Nanocarriers to Cure Leukemia Yield

New technique combines electron microscopy and synchrotron X-rays to track chemical reactions under real operating conditions June 29th, 2015announcements June 29th, 2015efforts to Use Smart Nanocarriers to Cure Leukemia Yield Promising


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its high concentration causes digestive malfunctions and results in the related diseases due to its toxicity.

reducing pollution caused by large consumption of toxic solvents due to the high surface area, and high sorption capacity.

chemotherapy packed nanoparticles may target cancer stem cells June 30th, 2015graphene flexes its electronic muscles: Rice-led researchers calculate electrical properties of carbon cones, other shapes June 30th,

2015researchers from the UCA, key players in a pioneering study that may explain the origin of several digestive diseases June 30th,

2015researchers from the UCA, key players in a pioneering study that may explain the origin of several digestive diseases June 30th,

2015researchers from the UCA, key players in a pioneering study that may explain the origin of several digestive diseases June 30th,


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and innovation programm 1 e. Its main objective is to reach a level of international excellence in nanomedicine characterisation for medical indications like cancer, diabetes, inflammatory diseases or infections,

EU-NCL is partnered with the sole international reference facility, the Nanotechnology Characterization Lab of the National Cancer Institute in the U s. US-NCL) 3,

This venture holds great promise for using nanotechnologies to overcome cancer and other major diseases around the world.

EU-NCL is connected also closely to national medicine agencies and the European Medicines Agency to continuously adapt its analytical services to requests of regulators.

EU-NCL is designed, organized and operated according to the highest EU regulatory and quality standards. This project is important for Europe,

To provide a trans-disciplinary testing infrastructure covering a comprehensive set of preclinical characterisation assays (physical, chemical,

in-vitro and in vivo biological testing), allowing researchers to fully comprehend the biodistribution, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, safety profiles and immunological effects of their medicinal nanoproducts.

To foster the use and deployment of standard operating procedures (SOPS), benchmark materials and quality management for the preclinical characterisation of medicinal nanoproducts.

Joint Research Centre-European commission (IT) European Research Services Gmbh (DE), Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. U s.)Trinity college Dublin (IE) Stiftelsen SINTEF (NO) University of Liverpool


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#New Biosensor Produced in Iran to Detect Effective Drugs in Cancer Treatment Iranian researchers designed a biosensor with application in assessment of effectiveness of drugs on the stability of the four-strand structure of DNA to prevent the growth

The four-strand structure of DNA plays an important role in the process of creation of cancerous cells and in the prohibition of a type of active enzyme in cancers.

The studies can be used in the diagnosis, designing and production of anticancer drugs. The research team presented an effective method to detect the four-strand structure of DNA by using biosensors.


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Winner of the 2015 Lindros Award for translational medicine, Kjeld Janssen is pushing the boundaries of the emerging lab-on-a-chip technology The postage stamp-sized square of fused silica Kjeld Janssen is holding

but inside the clear chip lies the potential to improve how medicine and medical research is done. f you can integrate

and automate an analysis technique into a chip, it opens doors to great applications, said Janssen, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sumita Pennathur Lab at UC Santa barbara. With only a minimal amount of human plasma,

the Omnisense nanofluidic chip he is developing is the heart of a device that can assist in the swift and accurate diagnosis of bacterial

or viral infection in less time than it would take conventional tests and it would cost less as well.

particularly in remote areas where people don have access to a full medical lab, as well as data gathering for clinical trials or epidemiological studies.

For the impact his project will have in the field of translational medicine the postdoctoral scholar has been awarded the 2015 Lindros Award from the UCSB Translational Medical Research Laboratory (TMRL.

t very awesome, Janssen, a recent transplant from The netherlands, said of the award. It feels like a recognition of his effort,

including late-night and after-hours work, and of his students which is especially gratifying and motivating,

and methodologies in all of medicine, said Dr. Scott Hammond, executive director of TMRL. orking with the Pennathur Lab, Kjeld Janssen research is intended to bring real-time detection to the world of medicine.

This technology, said Hammond, allows for the identification of specific DNA markers in an advanced microfluidic device. urther,

where the local health care infrastructure might not be able to support the level of research

or medicine necessary to monitor or treat patients. Efforts to study and combat highly infectious diseases,

including Hepatitis C, SARS or MERS, could also benefit from the user friendly chip and its rapid results. is award is truly helping our lab become translational,

said UCSB mechanical engineering professor Sumita Pennathur. t a big step forward in terms of bringing out nanofluidic technology to real biomedical applications of disease diagnosis

. I'm so excited for him!


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