Combined photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapy for cancer was created by Sangyong Jon, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST, along with his team using Bilirubin (BR) nanoparticles.
Breast cancer that spreads usually infiltrates bone, causing fractures and severe pain. In such cases, chemotherapy is ineffective as the environment of the bone protects the tumor, even as the drug has toxic side effects elsewhere in the body.
A research team at the University of York has discovered that genes are regulated by unique structures called by ‘nano footballs’. Although these structures have similar appearance like footballs, they are 10 million times smaller than the average ball.
Researchers are relentlessly expanding their cache of techniques to decode the spatial organization of biological structures. Using microscopes, they can currently visualize individual macromolecular components within protein, DNA, or other complexes.
Indiana University has received a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop nanoscale devices to enhance human health, including fighting cancer.
Treatment options for heart disease and heart-related illnesses are still limited despite the fact that they are the main causes of death across the globe. Presently, one group reports in ACS Nano that it is possible to repair damage to the heart by encapsulating stem cells in a nanogel.
Capsules capable of generating the bio-molecule glucose-6-phosphate that plays a vital role in metabolic processes have been successfully developed by researchers at the University of Basel. These researchers produced the metabolite in conditions extremely similar to the biochemical reaction inside natural cells. The findings have been published in Chemical Communications, a scientific journal.
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.
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.
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.
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