Joined: 03 Oct 2005 |Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:30 am Post
subject: Scientists Develop New Process for Tracking
Nanomaterials |Scientists at Northwestern University Develop a
New, Non-Invasive Process for Tracking Nanostructured Materials
Inside the Body Researchers at Northwestern University have been
developing a toolbox of synthetic amino acids (related to
building blocks of proteins) that assemble themselves into
complex structures that may prove useful in drug delivery and
tissue engineering applications. Now, that same research team
has devised a non-invasive method of imaging these
nanostructured materials within the body, providing a way of
tracking the fate of these materials in a living organism.
Samuel Stupp, Ph.D., and his colleagues have been creating
complex, self-assembled, nanoscale materials that can serve as
scaffolds for tissue regeneration following surgery or injury,
and as targeted, multifunctional drug delivery devices. Once
these materials have served their purpose, the body would deg