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A Replaceable Nanoporous Membrane Effectively Filters Virus Particles in N95 Masks

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there's been a worldwide shortage of face masks -- particularly, the N95 ones worn by health care workers.

22 May 2020

Nanobowl-Stabilized Liposomes Effectively Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs to Cancer Cells

For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes -- hollow spheres made of lipid bilayers -- to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumor cells.

21 May 2020

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