Nanorattle drug delivery

ACS Nano – n Vivo Delivery of Silica Nanorattle Encapsulated Docetaxel for Liver Cancer Therapy with Low Toxicity and High Efficacy Mesoporous silica nanomaterial is one of the most promising candidates as drug carrier for cancer therapy. Herein, in vitro and in vivo study of silica nanorattle (SN) with mesoporous and rattle-type structure as a …

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Reactor for producing fuel from sunlight

Sossina Haile and William Chueh next to the benchtop thermochemical reactor used to screen materials for implementation on the solar reactor. This is a follow up to prior coverage on this project to make fuel from sunlight California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are using a common metal most famously found in self-cleaning ovens to change …

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Longer SAT essays have better scores

Fourteen-year-old Milo Beckman, dubbed a prodigy and a student at arguably the best specialized math and science secondary school in the country, will be one of those test takers, but with a trick up his sleeve. He’s cracked the code to getting a higher score on the essay portion of the infamous SATs. Milo wanted …

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China’s economy could pass the United States in 2012 based on purchasing power parity

The Conference Board said it is conceivable that with the current forecasts for rates of growth, China’s GDP (purchasing power parity) could surpass the U.S.’s by 2012. The most recent IMF forecast of GDP (Purchasing power parity) is that China would pass the USA in about 2016. However, the IMF forecast had the US economy …

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Nextbigfuture now has a fan page on Facebook

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Nextbigfuture now has a fan page on Facebook If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on Reddit, or StumbleUpon. Thanks Supporting Advertising Business Success   How to Make Money    Executive Jobs    Paid Surveys Thank You Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and …

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Orthokeratology uses rigid contact lenses at night to correct farsightedness during the day without daytime eyewear and a Myopia Gene Discovered

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. Orthokeratology (also referred to as Ortho-K, Overnight Vision Correction and Corneal Refractive Therapy), marketed under brand names like “DreamLens”, “i-GO OVC”, “GOV”, “Wake and See”, “CRT” and “Emerald”, is the use of rigid gas-permeable contact lenses, normally worn only at night, to improve vision through …

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Carbon nanotube sheet can make better sonar systems and create anti-sonar frequencies

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Research scientist Ali Aliev, of the University of Texas at Dallas, has determined that the low-frequency sound waves created by carbon nanotube sheets can be used by sonar systems to determine the location, depth, and speed of underwater objects. Aliev and his team also determined that …

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UCLA Researchers clear hurdle on path toward gene-therapy treatment for disease

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software A multidisciplinary research group at UCLA has now teamed up to not only visualize a virus but to use the results to adapt the virus so that it can deliver medication instead of disease. They constructed a model of the virus to a resolution of 3.6 …

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China Plans to Build and Export Japanese and French Nuclear Reactor Designs at Two Thirds the Cost With Volume Production

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software China wants to build 153 new plants using existing technology and believes it can cut the costs of French and Japanese-based reactor designs by one third by rolling out the parts in bulk. The Chinese-made CPR-1000 (based on the french EPR) reactor was “proven, reliable, and …

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Restoring lost muscle helps animal models live a lot longer with cancer

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Reversing the muscle wasting caused by cancer tumors leads to longer survival. In most patients with advanced cancer, their muscles will gradually waste away for reasons that have never been well understood. Animals with cancer that received the experimental treatment that restored the lost muscle lived …

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