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DNA Nanorobot Designed to Collect, Sort Molecules into Predefined Regions

Visualize a robot designed to tidy your home: roving about, organizing dirty dishes into the dishwasher and stray socks into the laundry. Such a useful helper at the moment may be in the science fiction realm; however Caltech researchers have managed to develop an autonomous molecular machine that can perform similar operations—at the nanoscale.

15 Sep 2017

Test Strips with Platinum-Coated Gold Nanoparticles for Better Cancer Detection

A home pregnancy test is the most common test strip for diagnosis. Pregnant women have progressively increasing levels of the biomarker human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which is easily traceable in urine. A thin, colorful strip of antibodies will appear when hCG is present.

15 Sep 2017

New Nanoswitch-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Detecting Biological Signatures

Engineered strands of DNA, nanoscale tools known as "nanoswitches", could be the key to cheaper, easier, faster and more sensitive tests capable of enabling high-fidelity detection of biomarkers that indicate the existence of different viral strains, diseases and also genetic variabilities as subtle as a single-gene mutation.

12 Sep 2017

Nanoparticle-Based Injection Limits Damage in Spinal Cord Injury

A major amount of secondary nerve damage after a spinal cord injury is due to inflammation and internal scarring that hinders the ability of the nervous system to repair itself.

6 Sep 2017

New Biomedical Tool Using Nanoparticles Streamlines the Manufacture of Cell-Based Therapies

A new approach to cell therapy that is as simple as ‘just add water’ has been presented by a study published in the August 30th edition of Nature Communications.

31 Aug 2017

Nanotechnology Combined with Ultrasound Advances Chemotherapy Treatment in Recent Lab Experiments

Many people diagnosed with cancer have been treated with chemotherapy, have gone on to live healthy lives. However, chemotherapy does impact the body, the treatment attacks all the cells in the body, not just cancer cells.

28 Aug 2017

Nanolaser can Identify, Kill Metastasized Cancer Cells in Blood Stream

According to a new research work, a nanolaser called the spaser is capable of acting as a water-soluble, super-bright, biocompatible probe that has the potential to find metastasized cancer cells in the blood stream and then kills these cells.

22 Aug 2017

Researchers Identify Topical NO-np as a Potential Treatment for Dermatophytosis on the Skin

Researchers from George Washington University (GW) have discovered that topically applied nitric oxide-releasing nanoparticles (NO-np) are a feasible treatment for deep fungal infections caused by dermatophytes on the skin. Currently, these infections are being treated with systemic antifungals.

1 Aug 2017

Researchers Use Probiotics to Develop Metallic Nanoparticles

Probiotics, being live microbes, wield many advantageous health effects on the host cells. Such probiotics are commercially available as foods, dietary supplements, and pharmaceutical formulations.

24 Jul 2017

New Diagnostic Sensors for Analyzing Human Exhaled Breath to Diagnose Diseases

Breath pattern recognition is considered to be a futuristic diagnostic platform. The disease as well as the physical condition can be diagnosed by simple characterizing target gas concentrations of human exhaled breath.

20 Jul 2017