| 4/2/2011 4:26:48 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Nanoparticles Enhance Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells
Researchers have now shown that polymer-coated and dye-studded gold particles, directly linked to a growth factor peptide rather than an antibody, can detect circulating tumor cells in the blood of patients with head and neck cancer.
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| 2/14/2011 9:48:22 AM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Nanoparticles May Enhance Circulating Tumor Cell Detection
Tiny gold particles can help doctors detect tumor cells circulating in the blood of patients with head and neck cancer, researchers at Emory and Georgia Tech have found.
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| 10/11/2010 6:11:09 PM | Drug Delivery | 0 comments |
Thioketal Nanoparticles: Researchers Develop Oral Delivery System to Treat Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Delivering short strands of RNA into cells has become a popular research area because of its potential therapeutic applications, but how to deliver them into targeted cells in a living organism has been an obstacle.
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| 10/5/2010 12:08:41 PM | Grants | 0 comments |
NIH Awards $14.6M Translational Cardiovascular Nanomedicine Center
Georgia Tech and Emory University have received a five-year $14.6 million contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the development of nanotechnology and biomolecular engineering tools and methodologies for detecting and treating atherosclerosis.
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| 9/1/2010 9:08:12 AM | Products | 0 comments |
Emory University Orders Two JEOL Cryo-TEMs For Expanding The Electron Microscopy Core
The two TEMs, one operating at 120kV and the other at 200kV, will be used in Life and Soft Materials Sciences research.
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| 8/3/2010 10:07:24 PM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Becoming Tools for Brain Tumor Imaging and Treatment
Tiny particles of iron oxide could become tools for simultaneous tumor imaging and treatment, because of their magnetic properties and toxic effects against brain cancer cells.
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| 7/7/2010 11:19:52 PM | Quantum dots | 0 comments |
Multicolor Quantum Dots Aid in Cancer Biopsy diagnosis
The tunable fluorescent nanoparticles known as quantum dots make ideal tools for distinguishing and identifying rare cancer cells in tissue biopsies, Emory and Georgia Tech scientists have demonstrated.
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| 5/23/2010 11:28:15 AM | Quantum dots | 0 comments |
Mapping Tumor Heterogeneity With Quantum Dots
Using a mixture of four quantum dots linked to antibodies that can detect cancer-associated proteins, a research team from Emory University has developed a method for mapping the molecular heterogeneity of human prostate tumor biopsies obtained from cancer patients.
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| 5/6/2010 5:47:28 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Peptides may hold 'missing link' to life
Emory scientists have discovered that simple peptides can organize into bi-layer membranes. The finding suggests a �missing link� between the pre-biotic Earth�s chemical inventory and the organizational scaffolding essential to life.
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| 6/28/2009 8:42:09 AM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer Closer Thanks to Multifunctional Nanoparticles
Emory University researchers have created tools for the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer by attaching a molecule that binds specifically to pancreatic cancer cells to iron oxide nanoparticles that are clearly visible under magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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| 5/6/2009 8:05:36 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Iron Nanoparticle Tools Could Detect Pancreatic Cancer Earlier
Emory researchers have created tools for early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer by attaching a molecule that binds specifically to pancreatic cancer cells to tiny "nanoparticles" made of iron oxide.
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| 5/6/2009 12:58:13 AM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Iron Nanoparticle Tools Could Detect Pancreatic Cancer Earlier
Emory researchers have created tools for early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer by attaching a molecule that binds specifically to pancreatic cancer cells to tiny "nanoparticles" made of iron oxide.
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| 2/1/2009 5:45:36 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Artificial Antibody Delivers Nanoparticles to Tumors
Antibodies that target epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) have proven themselves as potent anticancer drugs. Now, a team of investigators is aiming to capitalize on this targeting ability, using a modified anti-EGFR antibody to delivery nanoparticles into tumor cells.
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| 12/17/2008 10:19:57 PM | Products | 0 comments |
Emory University Purchases Corning Epic System
This technology will enable ECBDC to further develop chemical tools for biological research and drive the discovery of new drug compounds which may lead to new therapeutics for disease.
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| 12/7/2008 5:57:53 PM | Quantum dots | 0 comments |
'Strained' quantum dots show new optical properties
Quantum dots, tiny luminescent particles made of semiconductors, hold promise for detecting and treating cancer earlier. However, if doctors were to use them in humans, quantum dots could have limitations related to their size and possible toxicity.
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| 12/25/2007 11:08:43 AM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Gold nanoparticle probes may allow earlier cancer detection
Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively.
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| 10/7/2007 3:55:32 PM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Nanoparticle Could Help Detect Cancer and Other Diseases Early
The nanoparticles, thought to be completely nontoxic, could someday be used as a simple, all-purpose diagnostic tool to detect the earliest stages of any disease that involves chronic inflammation, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, and arthritis.
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| 8/20/2007 9:35:15 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Nanoparticle Could Help Detect Many Diseases Early
Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers first to image hydrogen peroxide in animals
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| 8/10/2007 8:44:35 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Emory Physicist Opens New Window On Glass Puzzle
Nanotechnology is one example of a field that can benefit from research into the behavior of colloidal glass and plastics in tight spaces
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| 2/25/2007 9:27:32 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Dual-modality Microbeads Identify Disease Biomarkers
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed an easier and faster method to detect disease biomarkers in liquid samples using highly porous, micron-sized, silica beads that contain optical and magnetic nanoparticles.
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| 12/7/2004 5:36:35 PM | Grants | 0 comments |
Georgia Tech & Emory University Researchers Win NIH Grant for New Imaging Techniques Based on Metallic Nanoclusters
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University has won a four-year $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop novel in-vivo cellular imaging techniques based on quantum dots made of silver or gold atoms.
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| 10/13/2004 11:35:24 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Emory/Tech Awarded $10M Cancer Nanotechnology Grant
To establish a multidisciplinary research program in cancer nanotechnology and to develop a new class of nanoparticles for molecular and cellular imaging.
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| 7/31/2004 2:48:48 PM | Bio/Medicine, Research | 0 comments |
Emory Scientists Target Tumors with Nanoparticle "Quantum Dots"
Emory University scientists have for the first time used a new class of luminescent "quantum dot" nanoparticles in living animals to simultaneously target and image cancerous tumors.
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