Magnetic personality

Biophan Technologies Inc. has been using nanomagnetic particle technology to develop coatings to reduce artifacts from implanted devices in MRI images, and nanomagnetic contrast agents to enhance MRI image quality. Now, BIPH thinks it can apply the same technology to the field of drug delivery.

According to John Lanzafame, president of BIPH's Nanolution drug delivery division, the technology uses nanomagnetic particles (NMPs) that are 1-100 nm in size and "can be tuned, much like a programmable antenna, to respond to specific frequencies of electromagnetic radiation."...