Search results for theranostics

Bio & Medicine Oct 26, 2021

'Nanozyme' therapy prevents harmful dental plaque build-up

A growing body of evidence points to a link between iron-deficiency anemia and severe tooth decay. Whether the connection is correlative or causative is unknown, though both conditions are associated with poor diets and are ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 15, 2021

Hot-band absorption of Indocyanine Green for advanced anti-Stokes fluorescence bioimaging

Hot-band absorption based anti-Stokes fluorescence (ASF) of Indocyanine Green (ICG), much brighter than luminescence from rare-earth ion doped nanoparticles, was observed and studied by scientists in China and U.S. recently. ...

Bio & Medicine Jul 15, 2021

Using magnetotactic bacteria in oncology

Kamil Gareev, Associate Professor at ETU "LETI," justified the prospects of using magnetotactic bacteria to treat malignant tumors.

Bio & Medicine Jun 2, 2021

New nanoparticle design paves way for improved detection of tumors

Nano-sized particles have been engineered in a new way to improve detection of tumors within the body and in biopsy tissue, a research team in Sweden reports. The advance could enable identifying early stage tumors with lower ...

Bio & Medicine Jun 1, 2021

Nano-encapsulation for efficient delivery in Parkinson's treatment

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons in a part of the brain (known as substantia nigra pars compacta), which leads to a deficit of dopamine (DA), one ...

Materials Science May 4, 2021

Emissive supramolecular metallacages via coordination-driven self-assembly

Metallacages prepared via coordination-driven self-assembly have received extensive attention because of their three-dimensional layout and cavity-cored nature. The construction of light-emitting materials employing metallacages ...

Bio & Medicine Apr 7, 2021

Nanoconfinement concept improves safety of diagnostic contrast agent

More than seven years ago Albert J. Sinusas, MD, a professor of medicine, radiology, and biomedical engineering, was working with a team of engineers for development of an imageable polymer for prevention of adverse remodeling ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 19, 2021

Bacterial magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications

Magnetic nanoparticles biosynthesized by bacteria might soon play an important role in biomedicine and biotechnology. Researchers of the University of Bayreuth have now developed and optimized a process for the isolation ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 16, 2021

Photosynthetic bacteria-based cancer optotheranostics

Cancer is one of the most thought-provoking healthcare problems throughout the world. The development of therapeutic agents with highly selective anti-cancer activities is increasingly attractive due to the lack of tumor ...

Bio & Medicine Jan 21, 2021

Drug-delivery microcapsules tagged with zirconium-89 can be tracked by PET imaging

University of Alabama at Birmingham polymer and radionuclide chemists report what they say "may represent a major step forward in microcapsule drug delivery systems."

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