Bio & Medicine
Mar 14, 2018
Scientist develops hybrid nano-probe that can detect live cancer cells
Fabien Pinaud's big vision for treating cancer homes in on the smallest of targets.
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Bio & Medicine
Feb 22, 2018
New method uses light and gold nanoparticles for highly targeted, non-invasive drug delivery
Over the last century, there has been astounding progress in medical science, leading to the development of efficient, effective medications for treating cancer and a wide variety of other diseases. But the random dispersion ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 16, 2018
To untangle the effects of nanoparticles on microbes, look at the genes
The environment is teeming with microbes. Soil, water, indoor surfaces, our own bodies—any habitat that hasn't been rigorously sterilized is populated by thousands of species of interdependent bacteria, viruses, and other ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 16, 2018
A new method for detecting levels of an important amino acid
A team from the Faculty of Chemistry of MSU and colleagues have suggested a new method for determining levels of cysteine, an amino acid used in many drugs, with the help of gold nanoparticles. Unlike current methods, it ...
Materials Science
Feb 9, 2018
Ultra-efficient removal of carbon monoxide using gold nanoparticles on a molecular support
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to mount gold nanoparticles on a molecular support known as a polyoxometalate (POM). They successfully applied this to realize nearly 100 percent conversion ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 1, 2018
Self-assembled 'hairy' nanoparticles could give a double punch to cancer
"Hairy" nanoparticles made with light-sensitive materials that assemble themselves could one day become "nano-carriers" providing doctors a new way to simultaneously introduce both therapeutic drugs and cancer-fighting heat ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 29, 2018
Tiny gold spheres can be manipulated on surfaces using the effects of solvent evaporation
Unlocking the molecule-detecting capabilities of gold nanoparticles often requires positioning techniques that are beyond the limits of conventional lithography. An A*STAR team now demonstrates that a combination of topographical ...
Nanophysics
Jan 26, 2018
Nanoscale generation of white light for ultrabroadband nanospectroscopy
Scientists from ITMO University have used a silicon-gold nanoparticle agitated by a pulse laser in IR band as an effective source of white light. One such "nanobulb" was integrated into a standard probe microscope, which ...
Nanophysics
Jan 22, 2018
Thermo-triggered release of a genome-editing machinery by modified gold nanoparticles for tumor therapy
Gene editing is one of the hottest topics in cancer research. A Chinese research team has now developed a gold-nanoparticle-based multifunctional vehicle to transport the "gene scissors" to the tumor cell genome. As the authors ...
Nanophysics
Jan 18, 2018
Method uses DNA, nanoparticles and lithography to make optically active structures
Northwestern University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind technique for creating entirely new classes of optical materials and devices that could lead to light bending and cloaking devices—news to make the ...
