Sentences with phrase «if nanoparticles»

If the nanoparticles contain elements such as Pt, Au, Cd, Ag or lanthanides that are not generally present in body fluids then trace quantities of these nanoparticles can be detected.

If nanoparticles are lost in the analytical apparatus, they are not detected, and a «false negative» result occurs.

After all, if the nanoparticles can boost photosynthesis in those simple cellular organisms, then fuel, food and other products derived from algae might become more viable.

Now their research has leaped forward: «Research on mice can not directly translate to humans, so we wanted to test if these nanoparticles work on large animals, like dogs, rabbits and monkeys.

«Additional studies are needed to see if these nanoparticles could also effectively deliver other antitumor genes for the treatment of brain tumors as well as systemic cancers.»

«If nanoparticles are carrying a drug to deliver, different uptake could mean different therapeutic efficacy and other important differences, such as safety, in clinical data.»

«It is quite straightforward to determine if a nanoparticle is ordered or not using this technique,» says Guisbiers.

Not exact matches

To understand if cell sex might be an additional important factor influencing outcomes, the team incubated nanoparticles with human amniotic stem cells (hAMSCs) which were extracted from the amniotic layer of placenta attached to male and female fetuses.

«Chemical composition of the nanoparticle is as, if not more, important at inducing toxicity,» the authors said in their report.

Even if we can't get them to deliver things in the human body, they could be useful for transporting nanoparticles in the lab.

Experiments are planned to see if other nanoparticles or chemicals can perform the same trick.

«Even if the separation between two or multiple non-periodically arranged nanoparticles is of the order of wavelength, their interaction can be strong enough to change their scattering and absorption properties,» notes Kuznetsov.

Factories and laboratories producing nanoparticles and nanotubes should treat them as if they were hazardous and minimize their release into the environment.

If the chemical is not present in her urine, all of the pink nanoparticles will drift up the strip, past the pregnancy - indicator line to a second marker.

If those prove successful, Shea says the next step will be to devise nanoparticles that bind to other common protein families found in snake venoms.

In the late 1990s, Arthur Nozik of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, theorized that if the semiconductors were made out of nanoparticles, they could excite multiple electrons with less photon energy, because less of the incoming energy would be sapped by vibrating atoms in the crystalline lattice.

«Being able to tell if there is a tendency for a reaction to take place in a specific part of the electrode, and better yet, the location of reactions within individual nanoparticles in the electrode, would be extremely useful because then you could understand how those localized reactions correlate with the behavior of the battery, such as its charging time or the number of recharge cycles it can undergo efficiently,» Cabana said.

But if all the molecules can be clustered among the gold nanoparticles, they will produce a very strong Raman signal.

Impurities (here, the nanoparticles) will become engulfed by the crystal if it grows too rapidly.

Anikeeva, who is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, decided to see if she could use magnetic nanoparticles to go deeper.

The light - sensitive cells and nanoparticles, called opto - CRAC, were then delivered with the tumor antigen surrogate ovalbumin to mice with melanoma tumors in their lymph nodes to see if an immune response could be activated to target cancer cells.

«If we want to take advantage of the promising properties of nanoparticles, we need to be able to reliably incorporate them into larger - scale composite materials for real - world applications,» explained Brookhaven physicist Oleg Gang, who led the research at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

However, if a voltage is applied from one side of the film to the other, electrons can pass from one layer of gold to the next by burrowing through the cadmium sulfide nanoparticles in between.

«If you wanted to test 200 nanoparticles in the traditional way, you would need 600 mice — three for each type of nanoparticle,» said Dahlman.

If fluorescent nanoparticles were embedded in the glass pipettes, the unique luminescence of the hybrid glass could act like a torch to guide the pipette directly to the individual neurons of interest.»

«If we infuse glass with a nanoparticle that is sensitive to radiation and then draw that hybrid glass into a fibre, we could have a remote sensor suitable for nuclear facilities,» says Dr Zhao.

Some people may be uncomfortable lathering on sunscreen if it contains silver nanoparticles.

However, if both inner and outer blocks are hydrophilic — all hydrophilic block co-polymers — the resulting nanoparticles will be water - soluble, making them suitable for biomedical applications.

This includes seeing if the compound can be packaged into nanoparticles for intravenous injection.

It can — if it's full of gold nanoparticles.

But the findings suggest that the nanoparticles, if given soon after joint injuries occur, could help maintain cartilage viability and prevent the progression to osteoarthritis.

The pressure of this big squeeze builds, especially if many nanoparticles grab on.

«If we use the results of this paper [published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B], we can grow nanoparticles in the confined matter to create larger, uniformly sized nanoparticles of metal oxides, such as titanium dioxide, which is very important to creating the materials you need for electrodes for batteries,» said Sushko.

He suspected that if he could create a new nanoparticle that worked this way, it would grab onto a virus and not let go.

If the synthetic melanin nanoparticles created in this study were produced in a topical solution, it could mean a much more effective sunscreen.

I've been experimenting with T10 dextran coated iron oxide nanoparticles, obviously not the same as fullerenes, but still a very interesting tool, I've been testing if the coating is giving the particle antioxidant abilities because of it's the (basically) indigestable sugar chains (glucose) creating a high surface area which are largely made from hydroxyl groups, I hypothesised this act's as a «sink» for reactive oxygen species converting them to water.

«So if you take the off - the - shelf lipid nanoparticle formulation and instead encapsulate the CRISPR system, it's just not very good,» says Daniel J. Siegwart of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

If you want to form very flexible chains of nanoparticles in liquid in order to build tiny robots with flexible joints or make magnetically self - healing gels, you need to revert to childhood and think about sandcastles.

«If the anisotropy is too weak, a bit written to the nanoparticle might flip at room temperature,» Kent said.

Yet the broken nanoparticles chains will re-form if the temperature is raised, the oil liquefies and an external magnetic field is applied to the particles.

Kelley, lead investigator on the study published today in Nature Chemistry, explained how her team has advanced a completely new approach using magnetic nanoparticles with DNA capture probes on their surface that can target circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in blood samples to see if the cells contains biomarkers associated with drug resistance.

The ESRF X-ray nanoprobe can be used to visualise nanoparticles or clusters of nanoparticles if they are 100 nm or larger.

If each class of nanoparticle is synthesized to produce a different ratio of colors, this creates a spectral barcoding of probes.

If it's true that good things come in small packages, then the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can now make anyone working with nanoparticles very happy.

If you do not agree with this then look up any research paper and see what nanoparticle size they use to research new cures.

If this is true, then the Planktos experiment may be the largest intentional release of engineered nanoparticles ever undertaken.

From 2012 products will be labeled if they contain nanoparticles toward a specific usage - as the copper in self - tanners.

Also, if chronic exposure to nanoparticles changes our intestines so that more surface area is available for absorption, will toxins that are currently excreted cause more damage to organs after distribution through the blood, or faster accumulation in body fat?

In short, if a compound is relatively insoluble its biological activity in a nanoparticle form can not be simply inferred from its biological activity in a bulk form.