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Articles: Nanobiology and Nanomedicine

Nano Medicine

Medicine can be pretty powerful, but sometimes it’s best if you can deliver it only to the places in your body that needs it. Learn about all the different ways that nanotechnology can help scientists develop smarter medicines that can make us healthier!


New nano-thing to detect disease

Posted on June 16, 2023 by Carl Batt

Disease detection is a never ending challenge and the goal is to create new tests for diseases that are faster, cheaper and easier.  Tests that are slow, expensive and tough to do, don't get done as often and diseases that might be cured are not ... Read More...

Vaccines that don’t need ultracold

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Carl Batt

The new crop of vaccines for COVID that use something called mRNA usually require super cold storage.  That makes it hard to distribute these vaccines especially in places that don't have a lot of ultra-low-temperature refrigeration.  The mRNA vaccine particles are coated in lipids and ... Read More...

Too much information

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Carl Batt

We don't often think about the toilet as a source of information, but scientists at Cambridge University are developing an 'intelligent loo' that is able to analyze your urine.  The toilet is engineered to contain optical sensors that detect different chemicals in your urine.  ... Read More...

Take two and call me in the morning.

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Carl Batt

Nanotechnology offers new ways of diagnosing diseases.  Most tests require taking a sample, like blood, or urine and then sending them to a laboratory.  Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ha ve developed a sensor that you can swallow.  Inside of the sensor are bacteria ... Read More...

Medicine release on demand

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Carl Batt

Some medicines are more effective when they are delivered at the site where they are needed and when they are needed.  Think about taking an aspirin but it works only when you have a headache.  Scientists from  have developed a biodegradable material with nanometer-scale ... Read More...

Sometimes is it just a great picture

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Carl Batt

Nanotechnology has contributed to the advances in our ability to see different things at the nanoscale.  Microscopy has advanced from the very early days of microscopes being a single glass lens to very advanced instruments with nanometer resolution.  We can see lots of stuff with ... Read More...

You could mow your lawn at night

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Carl Batt

Scientists from MIT and the University of California have figured out a way to engineer plants to glow in the dark. This isn't the first time but it is the first time that it has been on whole plants without initially do some tricky genetics.  ... Read More...

Nanosponges Could Save Your Life!

by Josephin Vincent, Millersville University If you were bitten by a snake, what would you do? Stay calm, yeah, that’s the first thing experts recommend. Next, it’s important to identify if the snake is venomous. If it is, you must quickly counteract the venom in your ... Read More...

Fixing broken neurons

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Carl Batt

Spinal injuries can be devastating with the loss of movement in arms and legs.  The primary problem is damage to neurons, those cells that transmit signals to and from the brain.  There have been many attempts to fix neurons.  Scientists at MIT have developed a ... Read More...

really, they use a cotton candy machine?

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Carl Batt

Scientists at Vanderbilt University have discovered a new use for the machine that is used to make cotton candy.  Cotton candy is basically sugar that is spun into thin fibers.  The cotton candy machine was invented by William Morrison a dentist in collaboration with a ... Read More...

Building Teenier Tinier Tools for Surgery

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

In the old days, surgery was a nasty business. To work inside your body, doctors needed to make a hole in you large enough for their hands or at least the tools that they needed to use to perform the surgery. So to workon your ... Read More...

Biomimetics – Mimicing the Way Nature Does Things

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

Think about a rainbow. Is that a big streak of dyes that someone painted across the sky? No it is the diffraction of light into individual wavelengths that we see as the colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. The water droplets in the ... Read More...

Smart Medicine

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

When you get sick and need to take medicine, like an aspirin pill or cough syrup, the medicine spreads all over your body. A medicine’s job is to treat a specific problem but it doesn’t go directly to where the problem is in your body. ... Read More...

Nanofood !

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

You might think from reading Nanooze that nanotechnology is something that was just invented. Not really. The idea of making things at the nanometer scale is not new, in fact people have been making nanoscale stuff for a long time. Even before they knew that ... Read More...

The Bionic Nose

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

So your nose is a super sniffing machine able to tell the different between 4000 to 10,000 different odors. Your nose has about one-hundred million tiny special things called receptors that can bind a particular odor molecule and when it does bind, it sends a ... Read More...

Carbon Nanotubes and Cancer

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

Can nanotechnology be used to help combat cancer? Sure, in a lot of different ways. Cancer is a very complicated disease. It is not one thing and therefore it is hard to figure out and then to treat. Cancer is a disease where your own ... Read More...

What a Nose Knows

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

It is too small to see but not too small to smell. Sometimes we can’t eve see where the smell is coming from. An average person can smell maybe around 10,000 different odors. How do we do it? There are tiny sensors called “receptors” found ... Read More...

See It, Fix it

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

You don’t feel well and so you go to the doctor. To diagnose what is wrong with you, a doctor can do tests from the outside by looking in your ears and down your throat. But sometimes that’s not enough because there’s a limit to ... Read More...

Teeny Tiny Medicine

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

Your body is a complex thing made up of about 50 trillion cells. Fifty trillion is a huge number -- about 10,000 times the number of people on the planet! Most cells in your body are about 5,000 nanometers across or less, which is about ... Read More...

Tiny Muscle Machines

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

You move the mouse on your computer, click on a link and here is something to read about muscles. But how did your finger move the mouse in the first place. Well that is easy, you have muscles that are wired into your brain and ... Read More...

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