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New Class of Single-Atom Nanozymes Shows Great Promise as the Next-Generation Nanozymes

Nanozymes are catalytic nanomaterials with enzyme-like properties and with the benefits of high stability, low cost, ease of mass production, and tunable catalytic activity.

8 May 2019

New Nanofiber Yarn Could Help in Healing Injured Muscles and Tendons

A complex cable system of muscles and tendons hold the human body together. This system is designed by nature to be highly stretchable and strong.

24 Apr 2019

Nanoparticles Used to Optimize Treatment of Peritoneal Tumors

Researchers at the University of Tartu Faculty of Medicine used nanoparticles for the formulation of new imaging and treatment approaches for peritoneal cancers.

23 Apr 2019

Researchers Produce Gilded Nanodisks for Medical Needs

Young researchers from Siberian Federal University (SibFU) along with their colleagues from FRC KSC SB RAS are designing a technology for producing multilayer gilded nanodisks for targeted drug delivery and treating cancer using dip pen nanolithography (DPN).

17 Apr 2019

Nanobody-Based CAR T Cells Reduce Melanoma and Colon Cancer in Mouse Models

Two undergraduate students at the Free University of Brussels came across a formerly unknown kind of antibody when they were asked to test camels’ frozen blood serum in the year 1989.

12 Apr 2019

Newly Developed Melanin Nanoparticles Could Slow Tumor Growth

Human beings are protected from the harmful rays of the sun by the dark skin pigment melanin, which absorbs light energy and converts it to heat.

5 Apr 2019

Study Shows Cancer Cells Could be Treated with Magnetic Nanoparticles

Regrettably, cancer is more than a single disease, and even now, certain types of this medical disorder, like liver, brain, or pancreas tumors, cannot be easily treated with surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy, resulting in low survival rates for patients.

5 Apr 2019

Nanovaccine Could Boost Immunity in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome

Cornell scientists have developed a new family of biomaterial for an infectious disease. Nanovaccine successfully boosted immunity in mice with metabolic disorders associated with gut bacteria—a population that exhibits resistance to traditional polio and flu vaccines.

29 Mar 2019

Electrospun Nanofibers for Wound Healing and Enhancing 3D-Matrices for Biological Tissues

Electrospinning uses electric fields to control microscale and nanoscale fibers. The method is strong but tedious and expensive.

28 Mar 2019

Radiation Therapy May Increase Uptake of Therapeutic Nanoparticles by Glioblastomas

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) headed a new study, which revealed that the uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by glioblastomas—deadly brain tumors—could be increased through radiation therapy.

28 Mar 2019