Sentences with phrase «called nanoparticles»

In some fields of engineering, they're called nanoparticles.

So they developed a drug that inactivates the gene that makes FL2 and then put the drug in tiny gel capsules called nanoparticles and applied the nanoparticles to wounds on mice.

Engineers are working on a way to combine tiny, tiny pieces of gold, called nanoparticles, with an elastic polymer to create a stretchable, conductive material.

Not exact matches

As a proof of concept for this study, the researchers tested the plant virus - derived nanoparticles with a nematicide called crystal violet, which has been used to kill nematodes on skin but not in agriculture.

For this study, Yanik's team developed a new technology to inject RNA carried by nanoparticles called lipidoids, previously designed by Daniel Anderson, an associate professor of chemical engineering, member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and an author of the new paper.

The team produced the tiny nanoparticles using a synthesis technique known as the solvothermal method, in which precursors are heated under pressure in a special vessel, called an autoclave.

This interacted with proteins on the cell surface called proteoglycans which led to the nanoparticles being ingested by the cell.

The first, called bio-bar-code assays, relies on nanoparticles designed to attach themselves to specific disease - causing proteins; these will vastly improve a doctor's ability to detect diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's in their early stages and to identify pathogens like anthrax.

Back at the lab, the scientists turned the ginger into what they are calling GDNPs, or ginger - derived nanoparticles.

The nanoparticles carry a drug compound that blocks a protein called Myc that is active in many types of cancer, including multiple myeloma.

These nanoparticles, called magnetosomes, are usually arranged as a chain inside the bacteria.

The investigators utilized a targeting method called RNA interference (RNAi) which, when delivered via these natural nanoparticles or exosomes, zero in on mutant KRAS in pancreas cancer cells, impacting tumor burden and survival in multiple pancreas cancer models.

The nanoparticles cluster into supraballs at room temperature in a mixture of water and an alcohol called octanol, and are easy to extract as a powder.

The tetrapod - shaped zinc - oxide nanoparticles, called ZOTEN, have negatively charged surfaces that attract the HSV - 2 virus, which has positively charged proteins on its outer envelope.

The team coated flexible strands of silicon rubber with a mix of long chains of carbon atoms, called carbon nanotubes, and tiny bunches of silver molecules, called silver nanoparticles.

The technology, developed by MIT professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Sangeeta Bhatia, relies on nanoparticles that interact with tumor proteins called proteases, each of which can trigger release of hundreds of biomarkers that are then easily detectable in a patient's urine.

When combined with the compound, called ganciclovir, these loaded nanoparticles were 100 percent effective at killing glioma cells grown in laboratory dishes.

«We then evaluated the system in rats with glioma and found that by using a method called intracranial convection - enhanced delivery, our nanoparticles could penetrate completely throughout the tumor following a single injection,» says Jordan Green, Ph.D, associate professor of biomedical engineering and ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins.

Using nanoparticles designed and screened for endothelial delivery of short strands of RNA called siRNA, the researchers were able to target RNAi to endothelial cells, which form the linings of most organs.

Anderson and Langer have previously developed nanoparticles, now in clinical development, that can deliver siRNA to liver cells called hepatocytes by coating the nucleic acids in fatty materials called lipidoids.

Acids naturally found in the organic matter of soil, collectively called humic acid, can protect rice seedlings from the cell damage and stunted root growth caused by copper oxide nanoparticles, researchers report April 13 in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

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.

The lipid membrane of these photoactivable multi-inhibitor nanoliposomes (PMILs) contains a FDA - approved photosensitizer called BPD (benzoporphyrin derivative), and the nanoparticles are loaded with a molecular therapy drug called XL184 or cabozantinib.

«These novel luminescent nanoparticles, called upconversion nanoparticles, have become promising candidates for a whole variety of ultra-high tech applications such as biological sensing, biomedical imaging and 3D volumetric displays,» says lead author Dr Tim Zhao, from the University of Adelaide's School of Physical Sciences and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS).

«Using the DNA barcoding technique, which we call Joint Rapid DNA Analysis of Nanoparticles (JORDAN), we are able to do the testing in just three animals.»

The nanosensor design presented in this study combines three - dimensional plasmonic nanoparticles with singularities called exceptional points — a combination that's being demonstrated for the first time.

To maximize this effect, the team created larger spheres, called microparticles, filled with about a hundred nanoparticles per microparticle, and held together by another type of biodegradable «glue.»

The ability to enhance nanoparticle uptake is dependent on the level of expression of a molecule, called NRP - 1, to allow the peptide to bind to the tumor blood vessels.

Daniel Getts, chief scientific officer of Cour Pharma in Chicago, Illinois, says he has written WHO to suggest the use of his company's Immune Modifying Nanoparticles, designed to reduce tissue damage by binding immune cells called monocytes.

They then attached an ending to the nanoparticles, a process called functionalisation.

These particles, called micelles, are one type of a class of materials known as nanoparticles.

To detect this sort of enzyme, the researchers designed nanoparticles coated with small protein fragments called peptides that can be cleaved by particular proteases called MMPs.

For the future, Lin envisions more complex nanocrystals with multifunctional shells and additional shapes, including nanorods and so - called «Janus» nanoparticles that are composed of biphasic geometry of two dissimilar materials.

The method is called «3D Structure Identification of Nanoparticles by Graphene Liquid Cell EM (SINGLE)» and it exceeds previous techniques by combining three recently developed components.

Then, they etched the nanoparticles off the film; the resulting interconnected pores — called «mesopores» because of their size — cause the otherwise stiff material to behave somewhat like a sponge.

Instead of coating the nanoparticles with polyethylene glycol, the researchers covered them with a bacterial protein called streptavidin.

The scientists further coated the nanoparticles with a fluorescent molecule called DyLight549, which functions as a molecular thermometer, glowing with different intensities at different temperatures.

In their experiment, the team synthesized what they call interfering nanoparticles, or iNOPs, made from repetitively branched molecules of a small natural polymer called poly - L - lysine.

A team of biophysicists from the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Buffalo used magnetic nanoparticles to control heat - activated protein gates called ion channels embedded in the membranes of nerve cells, allowing the researchers to stimulate a simple reflex in nematode worms at will.

Whereas in the nematode experiment the researchers targeted nanoparticles to temperature - sensitive ion channels that naturally exist in the membranes of the worms» nerve cells, the scientists inserted the gene for a heat - activated ion channel called TRPV1 into the human and rat cells.

In the diamond lattice inside each nanoparticle, several individual spins are trapped inside of defects called nitrogen vacancies.

The nanoparticles assemble themselves from zinc and a drug called oxaliplatin, which is widely used against advanced - stage metastatic colon cancer.

Monsanto is also the financial backer of a 15 - person company called Preceres, a kind of skunk works it established just off the campus of MIT, where robotic mixers are busy stirring RNA together with coatings of specialized nanoparticles.

«In our research, we use nanoparticles - the liposomes we have created with TRAIL protein - and attach them to natural killer cells, to create what we call «super natural killer cells» and then these completely eliminate lymph node metastases in mice,» said King.

The researchers applied the so - called AF4 Method to detect nanoparticles.

Scientists based at Imperial College London have tested a new type of nanoparticle called metal organic frameworks (MOF)-- tiny metal cages less than...

Also, with some nanoparticles much of the material ends up trapped in protective sacs called endosomes inside the cell, and there can be potential toxic side effects.

Central to the new nanoparticle tech is an enzyme called caspase, which is activated when cells die.

The study focused on a class of nanoparticles called quantum dots.

In this study, the nanoparticles stay suspended in a liquid «ink,» creating a new nanomaterial called a COF colloid.