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Micromold technology: New technique for fabricating cells and tissues

News: Synthetic Biology    August 16, 2011
As they say, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Perhaps they should also say, there’s more than one way to make a cat skin. One of the key objectives of synthetic biology is to create materials that can imitate the functions of cells and tissues, like creating the building blocks of biological [...]
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Nanosponge delivers

News: Nanomedicine    June 8, 2010
Right up there in frequency with using nanotechnology for face powders has to be the myriad ways in which nanotech is, will, or can be used to deliver medicine. Why nanotech? For one thing, the nanoscale is small enough to be effective in attaching to or passing through cell membranes. Nanotech materials can be easier [...]
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Copolymer micelles and serendipity

News: Nanomedicine    November 10, 2009
Scientists can’t plan on it, but when it happens – serendipity – provides one heckuva backslapping moment. Just to make it clear, while some luck is involved, serendipity isn’t about luck; it’s about being ready to see that something unexpected has happened and that something is good. In this case scientists at Purdue University (Indiana, [...]
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Nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery

News: Nano-medicine    November 4, 2009
You’re going to see many stories of drug delivery methods using nanotechnology. Some methods are still quite theoretical; others have already reached the testing stage in animals. Note, however, that so far none have been given the green light for human testing, which says something about the nascent status of the nano-medical field. Much of [...]
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