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NCN Nano-Devices for Medicine and Biology: Simulation Tools for Education
Series | 19 Jun 2008
Many simulation tools are available on the nanoHUB. The tools have been well-tested and here include supporting materials so that they can be effectively used for education or intelligently used for research.
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NCN Nano-Devices for Medicine and Biology: Simulation Tools for Research
Series | 19 Jun 2008
Many simulation tools are available on the nanoHUB. The tools have been well-tested and here include supporting materials so that they can be effectively used for research. The research tools include a first time users guide and supporting publications and theses.
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NCN Nano-Devices for Medicine and Biology: Tutorials
Series | 19 Jun 2008
From among the many tutorial lectures available on the nanoHUB, we list a few that convey new approaches to the development of new kinds of devices for applications in medicine and biology.
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High-Aspect-Ratio Micromachining of Titanium: Enabling New Functionality and Opportunity in Micromechanical Systems Through Greater Materials Selection
Online Presentations | 18 Jun 2008 | Contributor(s):: Masa Rao
Traditionally, materials selection has been limited in high-aspect-ratio micromechanical applications, due primarily to the predominance of microfabrication processes and infrastructure dedicated to silicon. While silicon has proven to be an excellent material for many of these applications, no...
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BNC Research Review: Carbon Nanotubes as Nucleic Acid Carriers
Online Presentations | 04 Jun 2008 | Contributor(s):: Don Bergstrom
This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.
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BNC Research Review: The Birck Nanotechnology Center-Progress, Opportunitiees, and Challenges
Online Presentations | 04 Jun 2008 | Contributor(s):: Timothy D. Sands
This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.
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Functionalized Nanomaterials at the Interface of Biology and Technology
Online Presentations | 24 Apr 2008 | Contributor(s):: Dean Ho, National Center for Learning & Teaching in Nanoscale Science & Engineering
Nanomaterials, such as block copolymeric membranes and nanodiamonds, can be engineered for a broad range of applications in energy and medicine. This presentation will highlight the relevance of these materials as foundations for device fabrication across the spectrum of biology and technology....
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Nanotechnologies and Medical Ethics
Online Presentations | 02 Apr 2008 | Contributor(s):: Nigel M. de S. Cameron
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Ion Selectivity in Synthetic and Natural Channels
Online Presentations | 31 Mar 2008 | Contributor(s):: Susan Rempe
Transport across membranes and nanopores can be characterized by static equilibrium properties as well as by nonequilibrium dynamic properties. For example, equilibrium selectivity properties of a nanopore can be characterized by the difference in interaction free energy for transferring one ion...
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biomoca
Tools | 30 May 2006 | Contributor(s):: Reza Toghraee, Umberto Ravaioli
Ion channel simulator
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Nanomedicine for Treating Organ Failure
Online Presentations | 02 Jan 2008 | Contributor(s):: Thomas J. Webster
Nanotechnology has begun to revolutionize numerous science and engineering fields. The use of nanotechnology in medicine has been termed nanomedicine. This presentation will highlight recent advancements in the treating of organ failures (such as orthopedic, vascular, cartilage, central and...
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KIST/PU Infrared and Raman Chemical Imaging of Pharmaceutical Biological Matter
Online Presentations | 06 Dec 2007 | Contributor(s):: Tom Tague
There have been several advances in instrumentation that now facilitate infrared and Raman imaging. Current Focal-Plane-Array (FPA) detectors are very robust and read out quickly for infrared imaging and fast CCD array detectors are now available for Raman imaging. For example, infrared data...
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KIST/PU Ligand-functionalized gold nanorods as theragnostic agents
Online Presentations | 06 Dec 2007 | Contributor(s):: Alexander Wei
Plasmon-resonant gold nanorods have been examined as multifunctional agents for imaging and photoactivated therapies. Nanorods can be imaged with single-particle sensitivity by two-photon luminescence (TPL) when excited by fs-pulsed laser irradiation, and have been monitored in vivo while passing...
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KIST/PU A bi-functional block copolymer hydrogels and micelles for protein and drug delivery
Online Presentations | 28 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: Doo Sung Lee
Novel biodegradable & injectable poly(β-amino ester)-poly(ε-caprolactone)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(ε-caprolactone)-poly(β-amino ester)(PAE-PCL-PEG-PCL-PAE) bi-functional, pH/temperature-sensitive, block copolymer hydrogels were prepared and applied to protein and drug delivery. In this...
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Ethics of Stem Cells and Therapeutic Cloning
Online Presentations | 27 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: James Leary
Invited lecture for Purdue University course SOC 573
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BME 695N Lecture 19: In vivo model systems to study nanomedical approaches to cancer detection and intervention
Online Presentations | 27 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: Deborah W Knapp
With Deborah Knapp as guest lecturer.
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Engineering Nanomedical Systems
Online Presentations | 16 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: James Leary
This tutorial will cover general problems and approaches to the design of engineered nanomedical systems. An example to be covered is the engineering design of programmable multilayered nanoparticles (PMNP) to control a multi-sequence process of targeting to rare cells in-vivo, re-targeting to...
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BME 695N Lecture 18: Designing nanodelivery systems for in-vivo use
Online Presentations | 12 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: James Leary
Outline:Overview – the in-vitro to ex-vivo to in-vivo paradigm In-vitro - importance of choosing suitable cell lines Ex-vivo – adding the complexity of in-vivo background while keeping the simplicity of in-vitro In-vivo - all the complexity of ex-vivo plus the “active” components of a real...
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BME 695N Lecture 17: Assessing nanotoxicity at the single cell level
Online Presentations | 06 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: James Leary
Outline:Outline – the need for single cell measures of nanotoxicity There is more than one way for a cell to die... Necrosis" vs. "Apoptosis" There are other forms of "toxicity" Some other challenges in measuring toxicity of nanomaterialsNecrosis vs. Apoptosis mechanisms Necrosis is unplanned...
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BME 695N Lecture 16: Assessing drug efficacy at the single cell level
Online Presentations | 02 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: James Leary
Outline:Introduction and overviewNanomedical treatment at the single cell level requires evaluation at the single cell levelFor evaluation purposes, does structure reveal function?The difficulty of anything but simple functional assaysThe need for assays which at least show correlation to...