BOISE, Idaho — Researchers at Boise State University say they have used emerging nanotechnology techniques to devise a way to kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells healthy. Biology professor Denise Wingett said that many cancer drugs target rapidly dividing cells, but can leave people sick because the dose is also toxic to ...

Like a team of laboratory gearheads, Arizona State University (A.S.U.) researchers have found a way to soup up microscopic "nanomachines" that may someday be used to deliver lifesaving medications or test the quality of drinking water in remote regions of the world. In place of turbochargers and high-octane gas, the scientists ...

Researchers have used laser-induced explosion of absorbing nanoparticles in selective nanophotothermolysis of cancer. This is realized through fast overheating of a strongly absorbing target during a short laser pulse. The resulting explosion of ...

Burnham Institute for Medical Research researchers have developed nanoparticles that home in on tumors and bind to their blood vessels, and then attract more nanoparticles to the tumor target. They demonstrated that the homing nanoparticle could b...

If dendrimers are the sharp end of nanoscale engineering in cancer research, you'll find there's plenty still going on further back up the nanotechnology wedge. From the MIT Technology Review: ''One of these new approaches places gold-coated nanoparticles, called nanoshells, inside tumors and then heats them with infrared light until the cancer ...

Miniature labs that can be swallowed like a pill, injected through a catheter, or woven into fabric could screen for, detect, and potentially treat cancer and other diseases when they are still at a single-cell size in early development stages. They ...

PhysOrg.com notes continuing improvement in prospective cancer therapies based on dendrimers: ''After a single intravenous injection, every mouse treated with the dendrimer-drug construct survived until the end of the 60-day experiment and every mouse showed complete tumor regression. In contrast, none of the mice treated with only doxorubicin ...

Early nanomedicine means the practical results of better nanoscale engineering, as opposed to medical nanorobots; the foundations for that advanced technology are still being planned and laid. From the Motley Fool, a look at how near term nanotechnology trends apply to the defeat of cancer: ''In war, an ideal solution would be to have a 'smart' ...

Acid-sensitive polymer nanoparticles are effective at suppressing tumor growth when tested in an animal model of human ovarian cancer. In addition, animals treated with this nanoparticle formulation do not appear to experience adverse side effect...