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nanomedicine

Nanomedicine by nanoparticle:
Toward killing cancer,
tweaking cell function,
and inserting Boolean logic

October 24, 2010

Compared to small molecules, nanoparticles offer more physical scope for functional engineering, and according to a report in Science, more than 50 companies are pressing forward to exploit this for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Nearly a dozen nanoparticle-based medicines are reportedly in clinical trials, and lab research suggests a road to programmable control of cellular [...]

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News, nucleic acid edition

September 11, 2009

I’ve been working on deadline and expect to be writing here more regularly soon. Here are a few recent nanotechnology news items of note, all involving nucleic acids:

 

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Nanomedicine, Nanomaterials, and the NIH

December 29, 2008

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been developing what they term the NIH Nanomedicine Roadmap Initiative. This is much more than a study; it’s a research program that includes a national network of eight Nanomedicine Development Centers.

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