We live in an environment of constant progress. Every day, we hear about a new supplement that can help improve overall health and our wellbeing. New advancements in the field of nutrition continually reshape our daily routine and our subconscious considerations when it comes to brain health. Professor Oded Shosoyev, an expert in Plant Molecular...
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Nanotechnology may improve gene therapy for blindness
by Oregon Health & Science University Oregon Health & Science University and Oregon State University researchers are developing a new approach to deliver gene therapy to address blindness-causing genetic mutations. Their new method encases gene-editing molecules inside a shell of lipid nanoparticles. This scientific illustration shows the approach’s lipid nanoparticle shells, which appear as fuzzy beige balls after...
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Researchers use nanotechnology to destroy and prevent relapse of solid tumour cancers
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, YONG LOO LIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE As people across the globe look forward to longer life expectancies, malignant cancers continue to pose threats to human health. The exploration and development of immunotherapy aims to seek new breakthroughs for the treatment of solid tumours. The successful establishment of anti-tumour immunity requires the...
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Your sensitive teeth could be saved by nanotechnology
Sensitive teeth are bothering millions of people in the world. And while it seems like a small casual problem it can really impact one’s quality of life. Now scientists at the University of Queensland have found a way to manage tooth sensitivity by taking advantage of nanotechnology. If biting ice cream sounds terrifying to you,...
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Nanotechnology could make a huge difference in treating a lung infection often associated with COVID-19 ventilation
by University of Central Lancashire Credit: CC0 Public Domain Treatment for fungal lung infections could be more efficient when medication is inhaled using nanoparticle technology, according to research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). The early findings of the study, published in Journal of Nanobiotechnology, are of particular significance as many people with lung diseases...
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Nanotechnology offers new hope for bowel cancer patients
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA IMAGE: 3D ILLUSTRATION OF A NANOBOT ATTACKING A CANCER CELL. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Bowel cancer survival rates could be improved if chemotherapy drugs were delivered via tiny nanoparticles to the diseased organs rather than oral treatment. That’s the finding from Indian and Australian scientists who have undertaken the first...
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Scientists use nanotechnology to detect bone-healing stem cells
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of using nanomaterials to identify and enrich skeletal stem cells – a discovery which could eventually lead to new treatments for major bone fractures and the repair of lost or damaged bone. Working together, a team of physicists, chemists and tissue engineering...
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Tiny origami controlled by light
Molecular machines are incredibly small and powerful pieces of biology that power our bodies and most of the natural world. Despite being essential to all life on earth and having huge potential for revolutionising nanotechnology, humans are a way off being able to replicate them ourselves; because we lack the ability to control structures that...
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Nanotechnology — nanoparticles as weapons against cancer
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN Many chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancers are associated with side-effects of varying severity, because they are toxic to normal cells as well as malignant tumors. This has motivated the search for effective alternatives to the synthetic pharmaceuticals with which most cancers are currently treated. The use of calcium phosphate and citrate for...
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DNA-based nanotechnology stimulates potent antitumor immune responses
Synthetic DNA nanovaccines enhance killer T cell immunity resulting in tumor control in preclinical studies THE WISTAR INSTITUTE IMAGE: L-R: WISTAR SCIENTISTS DRS. DAVID WEINER & DAN KULP CREDIT: THE WISTAR INSTITUTE Researchers designed DLnano-vaccines displaying 60 copies of protein parts derived from the melanoma-specific antigens Trp2 and Gp100 and tested these in mouse models of melanoma,...