Category: Future Medicine

The effectiveness of treatment with multifunctional nanoparticles was studied using human breast tumors grown in rats lacking an immune system so that the variation in the effectiveness of treatment could be compared among individual breast tumors.

In laboratory tests, nanoparticles that include a small molecule of nucleic acid that binds to a target molecule on prostate cancer cells were used to carry a lethal dose of the drug into the cancer cells without affecting cells lacking the cancer-specific target.

A nanotech assay for trace levels of proteins associated with cancer is a thousand fold more sensitive than are current assays.

Nanotech membranes made of nanoporous alumina coated with diamond-like carbon films promise to minimize problems with medical implants.

A patch consisting of three layers of polymers can be loaded with nanoparticles and attached to living cells to give them nanotech backpacks.

Nanoparticles can introduce two very promising, but easily degraded, therapeutic molecules into a laboratory model of human skin, and together they are much more effective than either is alone is slowing the development of deadly melanoma skin cancer.

A noninvasive Raman microscope has allowed scientists to track carbon nanotubes injected into living mice.