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Permanent Bond Antimicrobial Coating-stopping Coronaviruses that like to Travel

The public transport industry is emerging from the skeleton services that operated during lockdown 3.0 and once again it aims to provide a safe environment for passengers to feel comfortable to ride on buses, trains and trams again.

From Signo-Nanocare UK Ltd 10 Feb 2021

Nanothermometry to Improve Anticancer Strategies

IMDEA Nanociencia researchers measure the nanoscale heating of gold-based nanoparticles and find high temperature variations within the nanoscopic volume.

10 Feb 2021

Dye-Based Nanoparticles Could be Used in New Imaging Techniques

In a new study, physicists and chemists from Martin Luther University (MLU) have demonstrated a new approach in which tiny nanoparticles can be equipped with dyes and how these particles could be used in novel imaging techniques.

9 Feb 2021

Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Method Shows Potential to Effectively Target Pancreatic Tumors

Researchers with the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and North Dakota State University have designed a new way to deliver pancreatic cancer drugs that could make fighting the disease much easier. Encapsulating cancer drugs in nanoparticles shows potential to target tumors more effectively and avoid danger to other parts of the body.

29 Jan 2021

New Nanofiber Swabs Could Enhance Test Sensitivity for SARS-CoV-2 Detection

The early contact tracing, treatment, and reduction of viral spread necessitate quick, sensitive diagnosis of COVID-19. But some people infected with SARS-CoV-2 obtain false-negative test results, which may lead to health risks for themselves and others.

28 Jan 2021

Ultra-Small Nanomedicines Show Potential for Oligonucleotide Delivery to Intractable 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.

20 Jan 2021

Avalanching Nanoparticles may Advance Real-Time Bioimaging of Cells

Since the earliest microscopes, scientists have been on a quest to build instruments with finer and finer resolution to image a cell's proteins - the tiny machines that keep cells, and us, running.

15 Jan 2021

Study Shows Therapeutic Potential of Lipid Nanoparticles for Delivering Therapies Before Birth

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania have identified ionizable lipid nanoparticles that could be used to deliver mRNA as part of fetal therapy.

15 Jan 2021

Nanoparticle Vaccine Technology Could Offer Protection from Different Coronaviruses

The SARS-CoV-2 virus that is causing the COVID-19 pandemic is just one of many different viruses in the coronavirus family. Many of these are circulating in populations of animals like bats and have the potential to "jump" into the human population, just as SARS-CoV-2 did.

13 Jan 2021

NTU Singapore Develops Oral Insulin Nanoparticles That Could Be An Alternative To Jabs

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed insulin nanoparticles that may one day become the basis for an oral medicine, and an alternative to insulin injections for diabetic patients.

13 Jan 2021