A new technology aims to stop wildlife from spreading Ebola, rabies, and other viruses. It could prevent the next pandemic by stopping pathogens from jumping from animals to people. Imagine a cure that’s as contagious as the disease it fights—a vaccine that could replicate in a host’s body and spread to others nearby, quickly [...]
In an article recently published in the open-access MDPI journal nanomaterials, researchers investigated the mechanism of interaction between nanoscale materials and specific cells for biomedical applications, primarily related to targeted delivery and tracing. Here, the localization, cellular uptake quantity, and response time of gold nanorods in MCF-7 and SKBR-3 breast cancer cells were measured. Background The amalgamation [...]
Currently, chemotherapy is still the main clinical treatment strategy for cancer. Although it has produced significant effects, chemotherapy also has a destructive effect on normal tissues and cells, bringing many side effects to patients. Therefore, it is necessary to study high-precision, safe and controllable treatment strategies. With the development of research, nanocarriers constructed by [...]
A group of researchers recently published a paper in the MDPI journal pharmaceutics that demonstrated the effectiveness of using lipid-biopolymer nanobeads as indomethacin (INDO) carriers to reduce drug toxicity. Background INDO, an orally administered non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) agent, is used extensively for inflammation, fever, and pain control. However, the oral administration of INDO often leads to [...]
Treating cancer and other diseases with laser light is not currently considered routine in the clinical setting, but new approaches using nanoparticles show some promise in improving existing techniques. One technique, known as photothermal therapy (PTT), converts laser light into heat that can target and kill tumor cells. Another technique, photodynamic therapy (PDT), uses laser light to [...]
Nanotechnology research offers a realistic and efficient method for reducing pesticide waste and enhancing pesticide consumption. A new publication in the journal ACS Agricultural Science & Technology discusses the development of chlorpyrifos-loaded silica nanomaterials enhanced with polydopamine (Cpf-MSNs@PDA) for intelligent pest management. The release of chlorpyrifos from the hybrid composite was alkali- and heat-dependent, ensuring the effective constituent's [...]
Wireless sensors can monitor how temperature, humidity or other environmental conditions vary across large swaths of land, such as farms or forests. These tools could provide unique insights for a variety of applications, including digital agriculture and monitoring climate change. One problem, however, is that it is currently time-consuming and expensive to physically place [...]
Nanoparticles, tiny structures, can be utilized to carry substances to parts of the body — for instance, to provide a chemotherapy drug to a tumor. Even though such “nanomedicine” showed promise to enhance cancer therapeutics, the survival perks of clinically approved nanomedicines are often modest compared to that of conventional chemotherapy. A new study [...]
Increased water consumption worldwide has resulted in low-quality water resources utilized for crop irrigation in the agricultural sector; however, these sources tend to be contaminated. New research published in the MDPI sustainability explores whether the addition of nanofertilizers can enhance these water sources. Here, the team investigated the effects of nanofertilizers on saline water sources in [...]
Microscopically tiny nanomachines which move like submarines with their own propulsion—for example in the human body, where they transport active agents and release them at a target: What sounds like science fiction has, over the past 20 years, become an ever more rapidly growing field of research. However, most of the particles developed so [...]
