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Bio & Medicine Sep 20, 2023

Team elucidates mechanism for maximizing therapeutic effects of magnetic nanotherapeutics for cancer

A team led by Professor Choi Hong-Soo in the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST has discovered a method to enhance the penetration of magnetic nanoparticles into cancer cells and their magnetic hyperthermia ...

Plants & Animals Sep 19, 2023

Study finds iron oxide nanoparticles are useful for medicinal plant sustainability under toxic metal conditions

Metal(loid) toxicity severely inhibits plant growth and development, thereby affecting yield and quality. It is crucial to seek favorable measures to improve plant survival under toxic metal(loid) conditions.

Nanophysics Sep 19, 2023

Precisely arranging nanoparticles to develop plasmonic molecules

In the incredibly small world of molecules, the elementary building blocks—the atoms—join together in a very regular pattern. In contrast, in the macroscopic world with its larger particles, there is much greater disorder ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 11, 2023

Hybrid nanoparticles shine new light on targeting cancer cells

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a new approach to potentially detect and kill cancer cells, especially those that form a solid tumor mass. They have created hybrid nanoparticles made of ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 7, 2023

Nanoparticles will change the world, but whether it's for the better depends on decisions made now

Technologies based on nanoscale materials—for example, particles that are more than 10,000 times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence—play a growing role in our world.

Bio & Medicine Aug 18, 2023

Sniffing nanoparticles loaded with mRNA could lead to advanced lung therapeutics

Researchers at Yale University, New Haven, have optimized a polymer-based mRNA vehicle for targeted lung delivery and demonstrated the potential of the platform for mucosal vaccination against respiratory pathogens.

Nanomaterials Aug 14, 2023

Gold buckyballs, oft-used nanoparticle 'seeds' found to be one and the same

Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold "seed" particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins ...

General Physics Aug 11, 2023

Femtosecond laser technique births 'dancing microrobots': A breakthrough in multi-material microfabrication

A research team led by Prof. Wu Dong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a femtosecond laser 2-in-1 writing multi-material processing strategy to ...

Bio & Medicine Jul 27, 2023

New lipid nanoparticle-mRNA therapy combats melanoma in mouse models

Investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have designed an innovative RNA-based strategy to activate dendritic cells—which play a key role in immune response—that eradicated tumors and prevented their ...

Bio & Medicine Jul 25, 2023

New nanoparticle drug delivery system shows promise in treatment of ectopic pregnancy

Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy have developed a drug delivery system that shows promise for greatly enhancing the efficacy of the medicine given to women with the life-threatening condition ...

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