SCIENTISTS DEVELOP NANO-MEDICINE TO FIGHT ALZHEIMERS

BY KEITH NUTHALL SCIENTISTS from a Euro EUR14.6 million research project are to unveil progress at a June 1-3 nanotechnology conference in Budapest on their goal of using nano-medicine to fight Alzheimer's disease. Researchers in the NAD Project have tried to make a virtue out of the environmental concern that nano-particles can breach the blood-brain-barrier. Its scientists - from Italy, Britain, France, Sweden, Greece, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Hungary, Finland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Denmark - aim to direct nanoparticles into the brain with positive ...


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