Thursday, November 6th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_1674" align="alignleft" width="303" caption="MIT researchers have developed a technique to attach a tiny polymeric patch to immune cells."][/caption]
Researchers at MIT have succeeded in attaching polymer-based patches to cells. Without interfering with the cell’s normal functions, the polymeric “backpacks” can be used to hold tiny amounts of cargo or to ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
MIT researchers are working on ways to modify these gold nanorods so they could be used as drug delivery or anti-tumor devices.
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Gold nanorods have shown promise in a number of medical applications. For instance, researchers have determined that the tiny gold particles could be used to ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Tweezers hold the device used to test new microbattery component.
The cause of everything from the common cold to AIDS, viruses have a deservedly dreadful reputation. But a research team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA, USA) may have found the one viral strain to good use: The researchers ...
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