Nanotech

CoQ10 bioavailability increased by Nanotechnology

The results of two human clinical trials support the enhanced bioavailability// of CoQ10 delivered into beverages using its novel technology which will interest manufacturers of CoQ10 products. Increasing its bioavailability, or the body's absorption of the ingredient, allows supplement and food makers to use lower dosages, therefore saving on costs. The patented technolo...

Nanotechnology Revolution To Be Spearheaded By European Union

Nanotechnology involves using tiny particles for treatment of diseases. ‘Nano’ refers to billionth of a unit. European countries are to use Nanotechnology for treatment of fatal diseases, which will help to reduce the cost of healthcare // . European Union to develop Nanotechnology in the next 10 years which will help to cure diseases such as heart diseases, diabetes, Cancer, HIV infection, Alzhe...

RNA Nanotechnology To Rescue Cancer Patients In Future

Scientists have now developed tiny delivery vehicles that can carry anticancer therapeutic agents directly into infected cells, using strands of genetic material constructed through nanotechnology, offering a potential wealth // of new treatments for chronic diseases. This emerging branch of science is called nanomedicine. These delivery agents are called nanoparticles, and are assembled...

Scientists Consider About New Technology Called Nanotechnology

“AGARA mudhala Ezhutthellam AADHI Bhagawan Mudattre Ulagu”Wondering what the above verses from Thirukurral written by Thiruvalluvar somewhere around 300 BC is doing in this special report about nanotechnology? // “ Annuvai Thulaithu Ezhkadalai Purati Kuruga Tharitha Kurral” – OuvvaySuch is the ingenuity of its author, that he has compressed within its narrow limits all the branche...

Nanotechnologists Specify Limitation For Devising Small Machines

There's a limit to how tiny gadgets, devices and machines can get, scientists have claimed. The claim comes from an experiment performed by a University of Arizona// team of optical sciences doctoral candidate John D. Perreault and assistant professor of physics Alexander D. Cronin. Perreault and Cronin directly measured how close speeding atoms can come to a surface before...

Potential Benefits Of New Nanotechnology

A new nanotechnology has been developed at Leeds that will benefit at large in huge reductions in heating bills, safer surgery and for the next generation// of miniaturized computers. By suspending nanoparticles in water or other liquids, Professor Richard Williams and Dr Yulong Ding have created ‘nanofluids’ which can transfer heat up to 400% faster than other liquids. In a central he...

Nanotechnology Promises Huge Medical Benefits

When scientists began to discus the potential of a new technology called nanotechnology, it only raised opposition, dismissing it to be nothing more than an eccentric concept //. The term ‘Nanotechnology’ refers to the construction of extremely small machines from nanometer size units that are about 10-9 meter or one billionth of a meter. Today, after it has been proved that such a te...

Nanotechnology at its best: Nanomotors And Mechanical Nanoswitches

Physics has been coupled and nanotechnology is spreading its wings to medicine and pharmaceuticals.// Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics for 2006 will be awarded to Dr. Viola Vogel for her creative and pioneering work on bionanotechnology exploring single molecule mechanics and nanomotors for technical applications. Engineering principles of biological nanosystems f...

Nanotechnology Could Revolutionize Cardiac Treatment

Scientists have developed nanomolcecules called ‘nanolipoblockers’ that guard against bad cholesterol. The molecules are designed in such a way that they offer a local therapeutic effect,// aimed at reducing the recurrence of blocked blood vessels in cardiac patients. These nanoengineered molecules, which represent the first line of defense against harmful cholesterol could soon join the fight ag...

Anti-Sense Drugs and Nanotechnology Offer New Hope In Cancer Fight

Scientists have developed a new class of drugs called antisense drugs, which can block the genes associated with production of harmful proteins//. Until now, it has been difficult for scientists to find a way by which special cancer drugs can be prevented from breaking down before they reach the target genes. But now, this problem can be overcome by combining the drugs with small gold p...

Nanotechnology – to detect and treat ovarian cance

Manufacture of stain resistant clothes to light and strong tennis rackets…. The way things are created is being transformed by nanotechnology. But, this technology will// have its greatest influence on the healthcare industry in future. Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago think that remarkably new ways of diagnosing and treating ovarian cancer can be developed using...

Nanotech Wipes for biohazard detection

A wet wipe has been developed by a researcher from Cornell University that detects bacteria, viruses and other hazardous matters in hospitals, aeroplanes and in food processing.// ‘It’s very inexpensive, it wouldn’t require that someone be highly trained to use it, and it could be activated for whatever you want to find,’ said Margaret Frey, the Lois and Mel Tukman Assistant Professor...

Nanotechnology Used For Detecting Viruses

No more delays in getting the lab results! - Says a research team from Georgia.// A Research team from University of Georgia has developed a diagnostic test using nanotechnology, which is capable of detecting viruses including ones like influenza, HIV, RSV etc., in just 60 seconds or even less. In addition to saving time, the technique – which is detailed in the November iss...

Fear of Possible Harm Hinder Nanotech Development

A lack of clear information about the risks of nanotechnology in society, has led to a danger of society squandering this powerful potential according //to 14 top international scientists in a major paper published in the November 16th issue of the journal Nature. The paper, 'Safe Handling of Nanotechnology,' identifies Five Grand Challenges for research on nanotechnology risk that must be met if...

India, China Trying to Fight Disease With Nanotechnology

Citing ongoing research in India, Brazil, China and South Africa, scientists say nanotechnology - science on the scale of atoms and molecules// - could give developing nations new ways to diagnose and treat disease. Nanotechnology is the ability to see, measure, manipulate and manufacture things on a scale of 1 to 100 nanometers. A nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter; a sheet of paper...

Nanotechnology Could Treat Spinal Cord Injuries, Diabetes, and Parkinson's Disease

Dr. Samuel I. Stupp has combined nanotechnology and biology to enable the body to heal itself and has achieved amazing early results. Dr. Samuel is the director of the Institute// of BioNanotechnology in Medicine at Northwestern University. He suggests that nanotechnology can be used to mobilize the body’s own healing abilities to repair or regenerate damaged cells. In a dramatic demo...

EPA to Improve Nanotechnology

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its current thinking on whether a nanoscale material is a new or existing chemical substance under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). In the document, TSCA Inventory Status of Nanoscale SubstancesGeneral Approach, EPA states that it will maintain its practice of determining whether nanoscale substances qualify as new chemicals...

FDA Nanotechnology Task Force takes positive step forward

The Task Force is clear and candid in acknowledging the pervasive potential of nanotechnology to affect virtually every product category FDA regulates—from p...