Enabling individualized therapy through nanotechnology

Enabling Computational Nanotechnology through JavaGenes in a Cycle Scavenging Environment

A genetic algorithm procedure is developed and implemented for fitting parameters for many-body inter-atomic force field functions for simulating nanotechnology atomistic applications using portable Java on cycle-scavenged heterogeneous workstations. Given a physics based analytic functional form for the force field, correlated parameters in a multi-dimensional environment are typically chosen ...

Pharmacogenetics: potential for individualized drug therapy through genetics.

Pharmacogenetics blends important components of the disciplines of genetics and pharmacology, and aims to describe the influence of inheritance on variable drug response. This review provides an overview of the history and current status of pharmacogenetics. The role of genetics in variable drug response is now firmly established. To apply this information to the clinical setting, more sophisti...

Nanotechnology approaches for pain therapy through transdermal drug delivery.

The paper focuses on the advances in the field of pain treatment by transdermal delivery of specific drugs. Starting from a short description of the skin barrier, the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics including absorption, distribution, action mechanism, metabolism and toxicity, aspects related to the use of pain therapy drugs are further discussed. Most recent results on topical anesthetic...

Individualized antithrombotic therapy.

UNLABELLED Clot formation in the circulation is a physiological mechanism preventing bleeding at sites of loss of vascular integrity. Clot formation may also occur intravascularly under pathological conditions, e.g. leading to myocardial infarction, stroke, and critical limb ischaemia. Clot formation involves activation of the coagulation cascade and of platelets eventually leading to an occlus...

Ultrasound in Cancer Treatment through Nanotechnology