by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the past few decades, researchers have identified biological pathways leading to neurodegenerative diseases and developed promising molecular agents to target them. However, the translation of these findings into clinically approved treatments has progressed at a much slower rate, in part because of the challenges scientists face in delivering...
Michigan State University and Stanford University scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away – from the inside out – portions of plaques that cause heart attacks. Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering at MSU, and a team of scientists created a “Trojan Horse” nanoparticle that can be directed to eat debris, reducing and...
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: (LEFT TO RIGHT) MEMBERS OF THE NTU RESEARCH TEAM INCLUDE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DALTON TAY FROM THE SCHOOL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE KENNY WU AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TAN NGUAN SOON FROM NTU’S LEE KONG CHIAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Cancer cells are killed in lab experiments and tumour growth reduced...
Number of ways have been developed that allow nanoparticles to kill cancer cells. Some of these include delivering chemo agents, converting electromagnetic energy beamed into heat, and manipulating with the signaling processes of tumor cells. An international team of researchers is now reporting in journal Theranostics a way of bunching iron oxide particles doped with zinc around tumors and then...
