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Iran among top 15

It is estimated that by 2015. Iran will join the fifteen top nanotechnology-research countries. Their head person of Presidential Research Office, Saber Mirzaei, has announced that they have been making tremendous progress in the nanomedicine and nanotechnology areas.

“Iran has managed to gain a lot of success in these fields.” Their strategic partners seem to be Brazil and South Africa. “Our country has reached a level in the production and commercialization of nanotech products that 70 Iranian companies are ready to face their rivals in the global market.”

Nanoparticles without negative side effects

Nanoparticles have many applications, both in nanomedicine and nanotechnology in general. They are useful, but they have some side effects which are not desirable.

Scientists from the University of Missouri have developed a way of creating nanoparticles which have no harmful side effects. They acutally added gold salts into water, and then added soybeans – and that’s how a gold nanoparticle gets created. It’s really a quite simple process.

„The best thing about this process is that we don’t have to add any toxic chemicals. That’s why we can categorize it as green.“ says Kattesh Katti of UOM.

The key lies in the soybeans – they contain a substance which gets pulled out by water. It helps gold salts to transform into particles. The substance also helps to stabilize the particles and to keep them separated.

The research was funded by the National Cancer Institute.

VIDEO: Treating brain tumors

This is a nice video about treating brain tumors by using nanomedicine techniques. It was made by “Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana”. It actually says that the best way to treat these kind of cancers is to do a controlled release of chemotherapy directly into the site using silica reservoirs.