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New Lipid Nanoparticles Could Help Overcome Resistance to Anti-Tumor Immunotherapy

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their collaborators in Japan have identified a strategy to help certain patients overcome resistance to immunotherapy treatment for cancer. The approach has been proven in mice experiments and was described in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.

20 Sep 2021

Poly-Ion Complex Nanomicelles Effectively Deliver Inhibitors to Modulate Lipid Metabolism in Brain Cells

Innovation Center of NanoMedicine and the Basic Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the International University of Catalunya jointly announced that a research paper "Poly-ion complex micelle effectively delivers CoA-conjugated CPT1A inhibitors to modulate lipid metabolism in brain cells" was published on July 27 in Biomaterials Science.

3 Sep 2021

Study Analyzes Interaction Between Graphdiyne Oxide and Intracellular Proteins

The mechanism of graphyne-intracellular protein interaction for regulating the phenotype of macrophages has been unraveled by a research group headed by Professor Chunying Chen from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

3 Sep 2021

Fighting Fungal Infections: Giant Leaps for Smart Nanotech

They’re roughly the same size as a coronavirus particle, and 1000 times smaller than a human hair, yet newly engineered nanoparticles developed by scientists at the University of South Australia, are punching well above their weight when it comes to treating drug-resistant fungal infections.

16 Aug 2021

New Nanotherapeutic Delivery System to Treat Early- and Late-Stage Metastatic Tumors

Scientists from the University of Arizona Health Sciences recently performed a study that exhibits the ability to enhance cancer treatment for colorectal cancer and melanoma. The study involved the use of nanotechnology to deliver chemotherapy in a manner that makes it highly effective against aggressive tumors.

13 Aug 2021

Efficacy of Polymeric Nano-Micelles with Different Drug Activation Profile Depends on c-Myc Expression

The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine reported in ACS Nano together with the group of Prof. Yu Matsumoto of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery and the group of Prof. Horacio Cabral of the Department of Bioengineering in the University of Tokyo that the efficacy of polymeric nano-micelles with different drug activation profile depends on the expression level of c-Myc, one of the major proto-oncogene, has been developed.

12 Aug 2021

Novel Technique Provides Insight on the Interaction of Nanomedicines with Patients' Biomolecules

An international team of researchers led by Michigan State University's Morteza Mahmoudi has developed a new method to better understand how nanomedicines -- emerging diagnostics and therapies that are very small yet very intricate -- interact with patients' biomolecules.

12 Aug 2021

Gold Nanoparticles to Detect Acute Liver Damage

University of Texas at Dallas chemist Dr. Jie Zheng has spent much of his career investigating gold nanoparticles for their potential impact in the field of nanomedicine

12 Aug 2021

$Ultra-Small Nanomedicines Efficiently Deliver Oligonucleotides to Refractory Cancers$

Ultra-Small Nanomedicines Efficiently Deliver Oligonucleotides to Refractory Cancers

Ultra-small nanomedicines of approximately 18 nm were fabricated by dynamic ion-pairing between Y-shaped block copolymers and nucleic acid drugs, such as siRNA and antisense drugs.

12 Aug 2021

New Nanoparticle Drug Delivery System for HIV/AIDS Treatment

A biochemistry researcher from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has discovered that a nanoparticle drug delivery system can help decrease HIV/AIDS viral reservoirs present in the brain that generally lead to neurological issues.

12 Aug 2021