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NIH Provides Over $3M for Novel Nanotechnology to Detect Cancer in Biofluids

by Matt Marcure
June 07, 2023

Human & Animal Health

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has provided over $3 million in support of a University of California, Davis, project to develop nanotechnology capable of diagnosing cancer from drops of saliva and other biofluid samples.

J. Sebastian Gomez-Diaz, seated, and Randy Carney pose in Gomez-Diaz's Applied Micro/Nano Electromagnetics Research Laboratory. (Photo courtesy of Randy Carney)

UC Davis Researchers to Harness the Cell’s Messaging System

by Matt Marcure
May 18, 2023

Link to the original article published by Matt Marcure can be found here.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, want to even out the differences in size and composition of naturally derived extracellular vesicles, or EVs, to turn them into a scalable and reliable drug platform, not unlike industrially produced medication.

NIH Awards $2.3M to ‘Detangle’ Complexity of Extracellular Vesicles

by Matt Marcure
March 15, 2023

Link to the original article published by Matt Marcure can be found here.

Extracellular vesicles, or EVs, are nanoparticles released by every known cell and relay important messages across the human body — but how they exactly function is not well understood. Professors at the University of California, Davis, seek to change that.