Nanomedicine

Leti Announces Project to Create Nanotherapy Targeting Inflammatory Bowel Disease

May 18, 2017

Leti, a technology research institute of CEA Tech, today announced a European Union project to develop a nanotherapy targeting the molecules involved in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. [more...]

Using Light to Control Genome Editing

September 5, 2016

MIT researchers have added an extra layer of control to the CRISPR gene-editing approach, by making the system responsive to light (Image credit: MIT News) The genome-editing system known as CRISPR allows scientists to delete or replace [more...]

Vancouver-based Nanomedicine Startup Targets Genetic Solution To Diseases

March 1, 2016

Microfluidic chip in the Precision NanoSystem (Image credit: PNI) Vancouver-based biotech firm Precision NanoSystems Inc. (PNI) has created a tabletop device that produces “self-assembling” molecules that carry drugs and gene therapies [more...]