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Common Ingredient in Big Macs and Sodas Can Stabilize Gold Nanoparticles for Medical Use

...uding cancer detection and therapy. The promise of nanomedicine comes from the high surface area and size relationships of nanoparticles to cells, making it possible to target individual cells for diagnostic imaging or therapy. Gold nanoparticles could function as in vivo sensors, photoactive agents for optical i...

Hybrid Nanoparticles for Multimodal Medical Imaging

...cs and Biophotonics are turning their expertise in nanomedicine to the development of new, nanoparticle-based mult...ange of therapeutic applications. "The fields of nanomedicine in which Dr. Prasad and his teams are working are developing extremely rapidly, and they are at the ...

New Multi-Modal Contrast Agents, A Boon For Medical Imaging

...riers. ‘I got into this field -- which is really nanomedicine -- because my area of interest is imaging and head and neck cancer,’ he said. ‘And as I would do imaging studies, I would see the true devastation of chemotherapy and radiation therapy to individuals from a psychosocial and a body point of view. So I...

Gene-Nanoparticle Gene Transfer Is Better Than Viral Vector Transfer System

...stry and principal investigator of the institute's nanomedicine program. "This transition, from in vitro to in vivo, represents a dramatic leap forward in developing experimental, non-viral techniques to study brain biology and new therapies to address some of the most debilitating human diseases." Viral vectors...

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