Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine
Special Nanoparticles Cloaked in Tumor Cells Deliver Protein to Kill Cancer
Many cancers tumors are actually quite easy to kill, if not for our extremely skeptical immune systems. There are proteins, for example, that are quite toxic to some cancers, but they get broken down rapidly as soon as they are injected into the...
Nanomedicine
Sugar Nanoparticles Reprogram Immune Cells to Help Destroy Tumors
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have created drug-loaded nanoparticles made from sugar molecules that reprogrammed tumor associated macrophages into an anti-cancer phenotype that, combined with...
Nanomedicine
New Nanopackaging for Chemo Agents for Targeted Killing of Tumors
Chemotherapy works differently in children than adults, sometimes in surprising ways. Researchers at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed special nanoscale packaging for Dasatinib (aka SPRYCEL), a chemo agent. Working with...
Nanomedicine
Ultrasound-Powered Nanorobots to Remove Bacteria and Toxins from Blood
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed cell-like nanorobots that can clear bacteria and bacterial toxins from blood. The tiny bots are powered by ultrasound and they could pave the way for nanorobotic systems that can...
Nanomedicine
Tiny Chemical Factories Inside Body to Produce Drugs On-Demand
Many diseases and conditions can be treated with timely delivery of specific drugs, but it's often unknown at the time when the drug is needed. Additionally, many drugs are difficult to manufacture in a factory, but some of those can be...
Nanomedicine
Topical Skin Lotion to Detect Variety of Disease Biomarkers
Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a new way of utilizing nanotechnology to detect important biomarkers within the skin using what looks like a simple lotion. Their NanoFlares, which are...
Nanomedicine
Metal Based Detector of Dopamine Receptors May Help Identify Early Signs of Cancer
At Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), researchers have created the first metal-based probes for spotting dopamine receptors. While dopamine is best known as a neurotransmitter that plays a major role in defining our mood, dopamine receptors seem...
Nanomedicine
Easy Method of Separating Chiral Drug Molecules Discovered
The chiral difference between two molecules often plays a huge role in pharmacology and physiology, even though the two seem nearly identical. The difference, simply that they're mirror images of each other, turns out to mean, for example, that some...
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Thousands of Tiny Microfluidic Chips Create Perfectly Sized Drug Particles
While a drug's chemical makeup determines what impact it will have on the body (pharmacodynamics), it is often the shell that it's encapsulated in that defines how fast the drug will be released, the location of that release, and even how...
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