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Researchers Create Nanobombs Capable of Attacking Only the Cancer Cells

Bioinspired by tunicates and mussels, a Korean research team has created a “bomb-like” anticancer therapeutic agent that only destroys cancer cells.

12 Jan 2022

New Technique Developed to Improve the Efficiency of Nanomedicines

Researchers at Penn Medicine have discovered a new, more effective method of preventing the body's own proteins from treating nanomedicines like foreign invaders, by covering the nanoparticles with a coating to suppress the immune response that dampens the therapy's effectiveness.

12 Jan 2022

Targeting Gastrointestinal Disease with Nanorobots

Revolutionary research on the use of nano/microbots for use within drug delivery could potentially be used for gastrointestinal diseases.

11 Jan 2022

Improved Biosensor Sensitivity with Polymer Coated Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Utilizing a functional polymer coupled with disulfide-containing anchoring groups, a one-pot technique for manufacturing polymer-coated silver nanoparticles was established.

11 Jan 2022

The Effects of Combined Nanoparticle Uptake for Drug Delivery Applications

New research aims to analyze the simultaneous uptake of two different types of nanoparticles into cells.

10 Jan 2022

Nanofiber Scaffold Supports Viable 3D Tissue Culture

Researchers have presented a low-cost and effective nanofibrous scaffold for the spontaneous formation of 3D breast cancer microtissue.

10 Jan 2022

Nanomedicine Advances Brain Tumor Photodynamic Therapy

Unlike radiotherapy and surgical resection, PDT can treat micro-invasive areas and protect critical brain tissue with a high probability of success.

7 Jan 2022

Novel Nanomaterial Captures Cancer Drugs Before They Interact with Healthy Tissue

Customary chemotherapies may efficiently destroy cancer cells, but they also tend to cause significant risks to healthy cells, thereby leading to secondary illness and reduced quality of life for patients.

6 Jan 2022

Graphene Could Control Cell Motility and Physiology in Actin Filaments

While the novel nanomaterial graphene is being utilized for various applications, its effect on actin filament dynamics has remained uncharted territory, until now.

6 Jan 2022

Color-Coded Test Signals Whether New Nanoparticles Deliver Cargo into Target Cells

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed a color-coded test that quickly signals whether newly developed nanoparticles -; ultra small compartments designed to ferry medicines, vaccines and other therapies -; deliver their cargo into target cells.

6 Jan 2022