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Category: Future Medicine

New light-sensitive polymer to control drug release from nanoparticles

A new polymer that disintegrates in response to harmless radiation that can penetrate several inches into human tissue may lead to nanoparticles that release their drug cargo only at a desired time and place.

Darpa seeks nanotechnology defense against novel pathogens

To counter the threat of evolved or engineered resistance of pathogenic bacteria to antibiotics, Darpa proposes to use nanotechnology to develop “Rapidly Adaptable Nanotherapeutics”.

DNA nanosensors profile gene activity to reveal state of cells

Small DNA molecules fluoresce in the presence of specific transcription factors, sensing which genes are being expressed in that cell, potentially allowing cancer treatments to be personalized, and the quality of stem cells to be monitored.

Leveraging nanoforces to increase biosensor sensitivity

This contribution has been forwarded by Ivo Rivetta. The primary forces on the nanometer scale are scaled versions of what we experience on a day to day basis. Instead of gravity, surface forces such as water tension and electric charge dominate. As an example, compare wet basketballs and wet sand. The weight of the basketballs… Continue reading Leveraging nanoforces to increase biosensor sensitivity

Carbon nanotube muscles could propel future medical nanorobots (video)

Yarn woven from carbon nanotubes provides a thousand times more rotation than is obtained from other artificial muscles, and could be made into motors to provide propulsion for micrometer-sized medical nanorobots.

Viruses guide nano-assembly of biomaterials

This contribution has been forwarded by Ivo Rivetta. Researchers at UC Berkeley have taken a bioinspired approach to control the nanostructure of deposited thin films. In living organisms, the orientation of collagen in tissue determines its properties: For instance, a number of blue-skinned animals, including the mandrill monkey, derive their coloring not from pigment, but… Continue reading Viruses guide nano-assembly of biomaterials

Destroying cancer cells by incorporating an artificial biological computer

A complex piece of DNA that acts as a biological computer when it is inserted into cells determines whether or not the cell is a specific type of cancer cell, and if so, initiates the suicide of that cell.

Magnetic nanoparticles to cook brain cancer go into trial in patient

Nanotechnology has been applied to produce various types of nanoparticles that can deliver toxic agents specifically to the cancer cells. Many of these approaches have shown promise in animal studies. One approach using magnetic nanoparticles has now gone into trials in patients. From “Nano-therapy that cooks deadly brain tumors advances in Germany,” by Ryan McBride:… Continue reading Magnetic nanoparticles to cook brain cancer go into trial in patient

Nanotechnology for Heart Repair Advances

Growing heart cells in a scaffold containing gold nanowires produces a tissue patch that is thicker and in which the cells beat synchronously as they do in healthy heart tissue.

A four-artificial-neuron network from 112 DNA strands

A neural network made from 112 DNA strands organized into four artificial neurons was trained with four pieces of information to answer questions.

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