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NanoDiamonds...Everyone's Friend?

Posted on October 03, 2008

Diamonds are a girls best friend but nanodiamonds could soon become everyone's friend. Dean Ho, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Robert Lam, a graduate student in Ho's research group at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, have developed a microfilm device containing drug-laden slow release nanodiamonds. Initial studies with Doxorubicin showed excellent pharmacokinetics, with sustained drug delivery over a one month period. The study's control group using microfilm without nanodiamonds, dumped all the Doxorubicin within one day. Ho and Lam's stu...

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