A team from UNIGE and LMU developed a transport nanoparticle to make an anti-inflammatory drug much more effective and less toxic. How can a drug be delivered exactly where it is needed, while ...

Researchers at Mount Sinai Health System and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have developed a new drug delivery approach that uses nanoparticles to enable more effective and targeted delivery ...

Piezoelectric nanoparticles deployed inside immune cells and stimulated remotely by ultrasound can trigger the body's disease ...

University of New Mexico researchers studying the health risks posed by gadolinium, a toxic rare earth metal used in MRI scans, have found that oxalic acid, a molecule found in many foods, can ...

Nanotoxicology is an essential discipline within nanotechnology focused on assessing the potential hazards that nanoparticles can pose to the environment and human health. Given their nanoscale size, ...

Antimicrobial nanoparticles are materials with exceptional antimicrobial properties, capable of controlling bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. Thanks to their unique physicochemical attributes, ...

Are Nanoparticles Dangerous to Make? Materials synthesized into nanoparticles have at least a single primary dimension smaller than one hundred nanometers (nm). Nanoparticles are distinctive and ...

over page of the new international standard ISO 4962 (In vitro acute nanoparticle phototoxicity assay) developed by the KRISS-NIST joint research team. The Korea Research Institute of Standards and ...

Due to the “programmable” nature of the nanoparticle, researchers are able to “swap out the antibodies or the drugs to target different diseases — like autoimmune disorders or different types of ...

Researchers from the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine Center for Nanomedicine—which designs nanotechnology-based ...