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- noun A
dielectric nanoparticle coated with a very thinmetallic shell
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At Houston's Rice University, where physicist Richard Smalley discovered the fullerene in 1985 (and in 1996 shared the Nobel Prize for his achievement), researchers have developed another platform for nanoscale drug delivery called the nanoshell.
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Unlike injections, which are taken several times a day, the nanoshell-polymer system could remain in the body for months.
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Last year Rice licensed its nanoshell technology to a private company, Nanospectra Biosciences, to develop commercial applications.
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Instead of taking an injection of insulin, a patient would use a ballpoint-pen-size infrared laser to heat the skin where the nanoshell polymer had been injected.
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Step Two: nanodevice applies gold nanoshell or other destructive treatment to cancer cells, leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.
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Step Two: nanodevice applies gold nanoshell or other destructive treatment to cancer cells, leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.
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The proposed mechanism of delivery of this nab-driven chemotherapy is thought to be by targeting a previously unrecognized tumor-activated, albumin-specific biologic pathway with a nanoshell of the human blood protein albumin.
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Group at the Argonne National Laboratory, for synthesizing stable multifunctional colloidal particles composed of a superparamagnetic Fe3O4 core, a gold nanoshell, and a mesoporous silica outer layer.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Group at the Argonne National Laboratory, for synthesizing stable multifunctional colloidal particles composed of a superparamagnetic Fe3O4 core, a gold nanoshell, and a mesoporous silica outer layer.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The proposed mechanism of delivery of this nab-driven chemotherapy is thought to be by targeting a previously unrecognized tumor-activated, albumin-specific biologic pathway with a nanoshell of the human blood protein albumin.
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