Volume 3, Issue 1 - 1st Quarter, 2008

Nanotechnology and Life Sciences
Challa S. S. R. Kumar, Ph.D., discusses how nanotechnology has always existed within nature and how we recently acquired the capability to understand and apply this science to benefit both our man-made and natural environments and increase our quality of life.
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Imaging and Treatment of Cancer through Combinations of Nanoparticles and Hormones
Carola Leuschner, Ph.D., discusses in detail, the work of her research team at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge Campus of the Louisiana State University, which employs nanotechnology aimed at targeting and eradicating breast cancer cells while leaving normal cells unaffected.
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