Salisbury, UK, 14th May, 2013: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being used at the University of Wyoming in the characterization of the physical and interfacial properties of manufactured nano materials.
Dr Jonathan Brant is leader of the group, “Interfaces in the Environment: membranes, particles and nanotechnology” in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Wyoming. The group focuses on problems associated with physicochemical processes in engineered and natural environmental systems. Understanding and ultimately controlling the many complex mechanisms that occur at environmental interfaces may resolve many of these problems. As is the case for environmental engineering as a whole, their work falls at the junction of many different disciplines, including colloid and interface science, chemical engineering, nanotechnology, microbiology and materials science. Read More »
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Salisbury, UK, 30th April, 2013: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being applied in the Chemical Engineering Department of the California Institute of Technology to study nanoparticle-based therapeutics being developed for the treatment of illnesses such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
The central theme of the Mark E Davis research group at Caltech is the use of chemical engineering concepts (synthetic chemistry and analytical engineering problem solving) to answer important fundamental questions in the physical and life sciences. Current research entails designs for the synthesis of inorganic and hybrid, organic-inorganic materials for catalysis and biocompatible materials for the delivery of macromolecular therapeutics. Read More »
Salisbury, UK, 22nd April 2013
NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, are pleased to announce that the company has been selected to receive the Queen’s Award for Enterprise – Innovation in 2013.
Following on from their 2012 Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade, NanoSight is pleased to announce further recognition for their market-leading nanoparticle characterization technology. NanoSight was founded in 2004 by Dr Bob Carr and John Knowles after Carr discovered a technology which allows particles, so small they were below the resolution limit of normal optical microscopes, to be visualized, sized and counted in less than a minute for a fraction of the cost of an electron microscope. Read More »
Salisbury, UK, 9th April, 2013: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being applied in the development of future diagnostic and theranostic solutions for early diagnosis, drug delivery and treatment of cancer at School of Medicine and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
School of Medicine (Institute of Molecular Medicine) and CRANN (the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices) are based at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) where researchers work in developing new knowledge of nanoscale materials, with a particular focus on new device and sensor technologies, biotechnology and medical technology sectors, with a growing interest in multifunctional materials. Read More »
March 12, 2013 – 10:05 am
Salisbury, UK, 12th March 2013: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being used in the development of novel bioanalytical assays at Illinois State University. The main application is the characterization of gold nanoparticles and differentiation between monodisperse samples from small numbers of aggregated materials.
Speeding up the detection and identification of viruses is one of the areas of new research of Illinois State University Assistant Professor of Chemistry Jeremy Driskell. This has been recognised by the US Department of Defense in their recent award of a major grant. Reliable and accurate nanoparticle composition is important in such work.
Here, Dr Driskell describes how he has used various techniques. Read More »
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Tagged Andre James, assays, bioanalytical, Department of Defense, dls, DoD, Dr Jeremy Driskell, dynamic light scattering, Illinois State University, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NanoSight, nta, SERS, viruses
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Salisbury, UK, 9th March 2013: NanoSight reports on the new NS300 system based on their world-leading Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis technology.
The NS300 utilizes the latest version of NanoSight’s particle characterization technology, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA). This elegant new instrument offers the unique benefits scientists have come to expect from NanoSight in a compact format, with a major benefit of enhanced fluorescence capability.
The NS300 can visualize and measure particles in suspension in the size range of 10-1000 nm (material dependent), and addresses the needs of a wide variety of applications including protein aggregation, exosome and microvesicle research, and drug delivery systems. It contributes to characterization under the new EU Definition of Nanomaterials, and is particularly suited to the analysis of particles labeled with fluorescent quantum dots.
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February 26, 2013 – 11:42 am
Salisbury, UK, 26th February 2013: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being used in the development of a method to estimate the purity of vesicle preparations by comparing the ratio of nano-vesicle counts to protein concentration. This work is reported by Dr Aled Clayton of the School of Medicine at Cardiff University in an original research article published in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.
The School of Medicine at Cardiff University is one of the largest medical schools in the United Kingdom, home to over 3000 students and staff. It is a major international center for teaching and research providing a vibrant community of medical endeavor. The School is based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, but is also embedded at other hospital sites in Cardiff including Velindre Cancer Centre.
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February 12, 2013 – 10:02 am
Salisbury, UK, 12th February 2013: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is used to help with the characterization of polymeric nanoparticles synthesized as drug carrier systems. This work is being carried out at Saarland University, Saarbrücken in Germany by Dr Christian Ruge and his colleagues.
In the world of pharmaceutical sciences, a detailed and full characterization of particles synthesized as drug carrier systems is indispensable. The particle size is a crucial parameter to be monitored as this will affect the stability of formulations. It will also impact with respect to size-dependent effects in biological experiments, such as the uptake of drug systems by cells. Read More »
February 1, 2013 – 9:24 am
Salisbury, UK, 29th January 2013: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is used for vaccine characterization and standardization in the virology research group of Dr Nikolai Nikitin at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
The MSU Department of Virology, headed by Professor Joseph Atabekov, is studying the in vitro assembly of compositions, consisting of artificial plant virus particles and antigens, potentially attractive for vaccines development. Artificial plant virus particles are spherical particles (SPs) generated by thermal denaturation and structural remodelling of helical plant tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), a rod-shaped virus with a diameter of 18 nm and a modal length of 300 nm. It has been found that upon thermal denaturation of TMV, viral RNA is released and becomes degraded whereas viral coated protein is assembled into spherical particles. The size of SPs depends on the initial TMV concentration and particles from 50 to 800 nm may be obtained. The group of Professor Olga Karpova has shown that SPs based on TMV are stable and may adsorb a diversity of proteins. Thus, SPs represent a new type of biogenic nanoplatform attractive for binding antigens and antigenic determinants of different pathogens. Read More »
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January 21, 2013 – 2:04 pm
Salisbury, UK, 15th January 2013: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is used in the work of Dr Ilya Kurochkin of Lomonosov Moscow State University in the development of new bioanalytical systems for environmental and biomedical monitoring.
Ilya Kurochkin is Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Postgenomic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Lomonsov Moscow State University. His research requires characterization of size distribution, concentration and to identify the presence of certain epitopes in two areas: exosomes for the prediction of adverse outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure and for the characterization of gold, silver and metal oxide nanoparticles in the development of new electrochemical biosensors and nanobioanalytical systems based on nanoplasmonic structures.
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