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• Nanotechnology logical OR to fight cancer

  Nanotechwire.com reports on clever work at UCSD on detecting cancer using today’s early nanotechnology-based particles: There is a growing recognition among cancer researchers that the most accurate methods for detecting early-stage cancer will require Read more
  Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:42 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine

• Nanotechnology for nerve cell regeneration

  Here at Foresight we have members with paraplegia and at least one with quadraplegia — it would be great if nanotechnology could help. Advanced nanotech should have cell repair abilities, but what can be done sooner? Medical News Today reports on promising Read more
  Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 7:10 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine

• Early cancer detection by early nanotechnology

  Lung cancer is a terrible disease, and anyone can get it. It’s hard to detect. Now a grad student is making progress at building a detector, reports Azonano.com: “With this technology, a future scenario might be that you go to the doctor every year for Read more
  Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:00 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine

• Nanotechnology to fight paralysis

  Here’s a cheery note to end our week on: There’s been lots of coverage of recent work by Northwestern’s Prof. Samuel Stupp’s work using today’s nanotechnology materials to tackle paralysis. An excerpt from NanoTechWire.com: In Read more
  Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 6:22 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine

• Controlling nanotechnology scissors for medical uses

  For many years we’ve been asked, “How will molecular machines be controlled inside the body?” In a nanotechnology advance that is getting wide attention, University of Tokyo researchers have found a way to build molecular-scale scissors — Read more
  Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:54 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Asia Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine, Women in nanotechnology

• Molecular machine work wins $25,000

  A Yale researcher has won the $25,000 Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences for his discovery of natural molecular machine that guides some proteins to fold properly in the warm, crowded environment inside cells: They learned that a large double donut-shaped Read more
  Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:18 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine

• Nanotechnology to fight brain cancer

  In yet another promising example of nanotechnology being used to defeat cancer, Forbes.com tells us of work at University of Michigan on brain cancer research: Tiny “nanoparticles” can be loaded with high concentrations of drugs to kill brain cancer, Read more
  Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:23 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine

• Nanotechnology shows dynamics of nature’s molecular machines

  Medical News Today tells of an advance by teams at Rutgers, UCLA, and Institut Jacques Monod in Paris on figuring out how an important molecular machine in nature does its job. Some excerpts: Two papers by Ebright and collaborators in the Nov. 17 issue of Read more
  Posted Monday, November 20, 2006 7:01 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine, European Nanotechnology, Genetic Science

• Visionary nanotechnology molecular machines pursued at MIT

  We at Foresight are big fans of researchers with ambitious nanotech goals, and today we introduce to you Prof. Shuguang Zhang, associate director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at MIT. In eJournal USA he wrote of his vision for the future of nanotechnology Read more
  Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:43 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Investment/Entrepreneuring, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine

• One-shot nanotechnology treatment *cures* colon cancer in mice

  Researchers at UCSF and UC Berkeley have found a way to combine a drug with a dendrimer to give a treatment that cures colon cancer in mice — in one treatment. From Phys.org: Single-Dose Drug-Loaded Dendrimer Cures Mice of Colon Cancer In a dramatic demonstration Read more
  Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:32 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine