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Magnetic Core-Shell Iron Nanowires Show Promise as a Theranostic Platform

Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance--their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days--using a new method developed by researchers at KAUST.

21 May 2020

Using Nanotechnologies for Early-Stage Identification of High-Risk COVID-19 Patients

What if doctors could not only diagnose a COVID-19 infection but identify which patients are at the greatest risk of death before any major complications arise- One Michigan State University scientist believes nanotechnology may be the answer.

20 May 2020

Fight Against COVID-19 Using Piezo Ceramics, New from PI

Testing of blood, saliva, urine or tissue samples from humans or animals to diagnose and detect diseases, like COVID-19, at an early stage, requires systems that are fast, easy to use, and widely available.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 20 May 2020

Nanohybrid Material Could be Activated Against Tumor Cells in Blood

When a tumor enters in the stage of regression and the patient is considered as healed, there often remains the fear of recurrence, a disease that unfortunately has a certain incidence.

5 May 2020

Improved Understanding of Natural Nanomachines May Aid in the Design of Potent Drugs

Many of the drugs and medicines that we rely on today are natural products taken from microbes like bacteria and fungi. Within these microbes, the drugs are made by tiny natural machines - mega-enzymes known as nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs).

4 May 2020

Nanostimulators Boost Stem Cells' Regenerative Powers

In regenerative medicine, an ideal treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from lack of oxygen would be to invigorate them with an injection of their own stem cells.

4 May 2020

New Nanoparticle-Based Imaging Technique Captures Mechanical Properties of Living Cells

A first-of-its-kind nanoparticle-based in vivo imaging technique that may one day be used to help diagnose and even treat cancer has been developed by researchers collaborating from Michigan State, Johns Hopkins and Stanford universities.

30 Apr 2020

Nanoparticles to Achieve Targeted Elimination of Malignant Tumors

At LMU, scientists have developed nanoparticles that can be triggered, through a change in pH, to discharge a lethal dose of ionized iron within cells.

20 Apr 2020

Nanobodies Hold the Key to Imaging SARS-CoV-2 Virus

Researchers from Protein Production UK, a collaborative project led by The Rosalind Franklin Institute, have isolated nanobodies - a type of antibody used in research, which bind to the 'spike' protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

20 Apr 2020

New Drug Nanocarriers can Penetrate the Blood-Brain Barrier

A Japanese research team has developed a cyclic peptide (a chain of amino acids bonded circularly) that enhances blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetration.

20 Apr 2020