Nanomedicine for early Detection and Treatment of Cancer
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
New technology for cancer detection and treatment developed by nuclear physicist Dr Edward R Flynn requires no radiation and is much more sensitive in detection of cancer than existing diagnostics.
The body of work on this subject has now been bought by Manhattan Scientific Inc., a nanomedicine technology transfer and commercialization company. The company has purchased all commercial rights to the technology from Edward R Flynn.
Current mammography technology cannot detect cancers until it has grown to over ten million cells. With Dr Flynn’s technology, breast cancer can be detected at one hundredth of that level. It can also detect ovarian cancer, for which there is no effective screening now.
Considering that success in cancer treatment depends largely on early detection, the new technology can thus enhance treatment effectiveness in a major way. The technology can also effectively monitor chemotherapy in leukaemia, allowing more effective treatment and less side effects.
Read more details about the technology and the approach used at Nanotechnology Now.
Tags: cancer detection, cancer treatment, nanomedicine, technology commercialization
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Measuring and Sensing Particles at Atomic Levels
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Russian Nanotechnology Corporation is participating in a project to widen production of equipment to measure-analyze materials at nanometer and atomic levels. The primary emphasis will be on scanning probe microscope used in moving a probe with a precision of one nanometer (one billionth of a meter). Such probes are used in studying the surface of materials with unprecedented precision.
The corporation will also produce atomic scales that can sense the presence of single atoms of various substances. This can prove high value as delicate biosensors.
Scanning probe microscopes have high demand among manufacturers of high-technology products and also institutions conducting research in material sciences, biology and medicine. At present, Russia has to obtain these equipment from abroad. The project will seek to make the equipment available at modest prices.
The project has a goal of producing 300 analytic equipment by 2015, with more than half of them bought by Russian buyers while the rest will be exported to India and southeast Asian countries.
Read more details at Nanowerk report.
Tags: atomic scale, nanometer, nanotechnology, scanning probe microscope
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