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 ...

Sen. Feinstein has kind words for nanotech group. ''Nanotechnology is opening new doors and offering hope to thousands of patients diagnosed with cancer daily,'' Feinstein wrote in a letter to NanoBioNexus. ''...NanoBioNexus is leading the way in NanoBiotech education.''

National Cancer Institute plans to rely heavily on nanotechnology for future diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

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 ...