Nanotech News

October 2007

Additional Publications of Note in October

Hybrid nanoparticles for magnetic resonance imaging of target-specific viral gene delivery.
Advanced Materials
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Apoptotic epidermal growth factor (EGF)-conjugated block copolymer micelles as a nanotechnology platform for targeted combination therapy.
Molecular Pharmaceutics
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Amphiphilic helical peptide enhances the uptake of single-walled carbon nanotubes by living cells.
Experimental Biology and Medicine
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Synthetic nano-LDL with paclitaxel oleate as a targeted drug delivery vehicle for glioblastoma multiforme.
Journal of Controlled Release No abstract available

Fluorescently labeled cellulose nanocrystals for bioimaging applications.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Dendrimer generation effects on photodynamic efficacy of dendrimer porphyrins and dendrimer-loaded supramolecular nanocarriers.
Chemistry of Materials
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Lanthanide-containing polymer nanoparticles for biological tagging applications: nonspecific endocytosis and cell adhesion.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes in the intact organism: near-IR imaging and biocompatibility studies in Drosophila.
Nano Letters
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Nonfunctionalized nanocrystals can exploit a cell’s active transport machinery delivering them to specific nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments.
Nano Letters
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Influence of size, surface, cell line, and kinetic properties on the specific binding of A33 antigen-targeted multilayered particles and capsules to colorectal cancer cells.
ACS Nano
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Biocatalytic microcontact printing.
Journal of Organic Chemistry
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Radiosensitization of paclitaxel, etanidazole and paclitaxel+etanidazole nanoparticles on hypoxic human tumor cells in vitro.
Biomaterials
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Conjugated polymer dots for multiphoton fluorescence imaging.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Ultrasmall mixed ferrite colloids as multidimensional magnetic resonance imaging, cell labeling, and cell sorting agents.
Bioconjugate Chemistry
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Renal clearance of quantum dots.
Nature Biotechnology
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Enhanced retention of the alpha-particle-emitting daughters of actinium-225 by liposome carriers.
Bioconjugate Chemistry
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Anti-CD166 single chain antibody-mediated intracellular delivery of liposomal drugs to prostate cancer cells.
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
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Multifunctional magneto-polymeric nanohybrids for targeted detection and synergistic therapeutic effects on breast cancer.
Angewandte Chemie Int Ed Engl
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Gold nanorods mediate tumor cell death by compromising membrane integrity.
Advanced Materials
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In situ molecular profiling of breast cancer biomarkers with multicolor quantum dots.
Advanced Materials
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Glutaric acid as a spacer facilitates improved intracellular uptake of LHRH-SPION into human breast cancer cells.
International Journal of Nanomedicine
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Long-term toxicity of holmium-loaded poly(l-lactic acid) microspheres in rats.
Biomaterials
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Bio-nano-informatics: an integrated information management system for personalized oncology.
Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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Automatic microtubule tracking for QD-based in vivo cell imaging and drug efficacy study.
Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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Selecting clinically-driven biomarkers for cancer nanotechnology.
Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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Detecting and quantifying biomarkers of risk for colorectal cancer using quantum dots and novel image analysis algorithms.
Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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Nanotechnology and cancer.
Annual Review of Medicine
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Multifunctional poly(d,l-lactide-co-glycolide)/montmorillonite (PLGA/MMT) nanoparticles decorated by Trastuzumab for targeted chemotherapy of breast cancer.
Biomaterials
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