High impact information on Nanotechnology

• A model is developed to describe the adhesion between deformable fractal surfaces over the mesoscopic realm that covers the familiar range of interest in nanotechnology from atomic dimensions to microns [1].
• Utilizing the engineered left/right interlocking loops, polyvalent dimeric pRNA nanoparticles were constructed using RNA nanotechnology to carry folate, a detection marker, and siRNA targeting at an antiapoptosis factor [2].
• It has been reported [Shu, D., Moll, W.-D., Deng, Z., Mao, C., and Guo, P. (2004). Nano Lett. 4:1717-1724] that RNA can be used as a building block for bottom-up assembly in nanotechnology [3].
• Nanotechnology in medicine and the biosciences. The UK National Symposium on Nanotechnology in Medicine and the Biosciences, London, UK, 16-18 March l994 [4].
• Three pathways to molecular nanotechnology are proximate probe technology (the use of improvements of the scanning tunneling microscope, STM), biotechnology, and supramolecular chemistry [5].

Biological context of Nanotechnology

• These results indicate that this combinatorial nanotechnology using fusogenic liposome and nanoparticle is a valuable system for regulating the intracellular pharmacokinetics of gene-based drugs [6].
• Delivery and protection of catalase from lysosomal degradation afforded by PNC nanotechnology may advance effectiveness and duration of treatment of diverse disease conditions associated with vascular oxidative stress [7].

Anatomical context of Nanotechnology

• Results of a recent study using nanotechnology demonstrated that African Americans have an inherent imbalance of NO, O2-, and ONOO- production in the endothelium [8].

Associations of Nanotechnology with chemical compounds

• A simple and low cost optical sensor, based on porous silicon nanotechnology, has been used to detect and quantify the presence of atrazine pesticide in water and humic acid solutions [9].
• When mixed with another anionic lipid, cardiolipin, at a NB-DOPC/ cardiolipin 2:1 molar ratio, it forms the inverted hexagonal phase which is of potential interest for nanotechnology applications [10].
• According to the data obtained, this chitosan-based nanotechnology opens new and interesting perspectives for anticaspase activity [11].
• This paper gathers a number of significant results where nanotechnology was satisfactorily applied to improve packaged food quality and safety by increasing the barrier properties to oxygen of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) in dry and under humid conditions and of a poly(lactic acid) (PLA) biopolymer [12].
• Self-assembly and aggregation of guanine rich sequences can provide useful insights into DNA nanotechnology and telomeric structure and function [13].

Gene context of Nanotechnology

• The ability to self-assemble into branches and long wires not only clearly demonstrate its potential as scaffold structures for nanotechnology, but also give aids to understand telomeric structure further [13].

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