Sentences with phrase «designed nanoparticles»

He said the industry lacks a uniform method to test and optimize custom - designed nanoparticles for particular formations and fluids.

IBS scientists in collaborations with researchers led by Nohyun Lee (Kookmin University), Hyo - Cheol Kim (Seoul National University Hospital) designed nanoparticles with a shell made of silica (SiO2) and a core of radiopaque tantalum oxide (TaOx).

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.

To create a new dengue virus vaccine, Stefan Metz, Shaomin Tian in the laboratories of Aravinda de Silva, Chris Luft and Joe DeSimone at the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA designed nanoparticles of various shapes and sizes using Particle Replication in Non-wetting Template (PRINT) technology.

Lanza also designed the nanoparticles to carry targeting molecules that home in on and bind to cancer cells that carry the complementary receptor, like a lock and key.

, is funded through a National Science Foundation CAREER award and bridges previous research focused on designing nanoparticles for catalytic applications.

• MEDICINE Scientists have designed a nanoparticle capable of destroying bacterial cells by piercing their membranes.

«We need to design nanoparticles that will, like a lock - and - key mechanism, travel through the body and interact only with the diseased cell surface,» says Marth.

Researchers have designed a nanoparticle - based therapy that is effective in treating mice with multiple myeloma, a cancer of immune cells in the bone marrow.

To make the approach feasible in humans, researchers need to design nanoparticles that are «very, very selective» in their ability to target specific brain structures and neurons, Sastre says.

By varying properties such as charge, composition, and attached surface molecules, researchers can design nanoparticles to deliver medicine to specific body regions and cell types — and even to carry medicine into cells.

For example, he's designing nanoparticles that bait specific immune system cells by displaying certain features on their surface; inside, the nanoparticles contain an antigen of a particular microbe.

Using the same principle, the researchers are hopeful of designing nanoparticles with the ability to cross other barriers, which could be used to treat other conditions, such as diabetes, arthritis and high cholesterol.

The UNC Lineberger researchers demonstrated in preclinical studies they could successfully design nanoparticles to capture mutated proteins released by tumors.

Not exact matches

Scientists explain what happens when nanoparticles collide: Study results could one day inform the design of new materials for protective gear, energy - harvesting devices and more.»

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.

Other areas of study include tinkering with nanoparticles» shape (a more elongated design could more easily navigate the body) and materials that have a lower molecular weight but pack the same punch.

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.

They also designed combinations of nanoparticles from different bacteriophages, resulting in hybrids that are able to recognize new bacteria, including pathogenic bacteria.

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.

These new nanoparticles are equipped with specially designed nanovalves that can control release of anticancer drugs from thousands of pores, or tiny tubes, which hold molecules of chemotherapy drugs within them.

MIT engineers designed RNA - carrying nanoparticles (red) that can be taken up by endothelial cells (stained blue).

In their current study, described online today in Science, Discher and his colleagues copied short snippets of the CD47 protein, known as peptides, and attached them to nanoparticles designed to ferry either imaging agents or anticancer compounds to tumors.

The authors determined that the plasmonic - nanoparticle - coated foils created by their method perform as well or better than existing SSAs and maintain high efficiency throughout the day, regardless of the angle of the sun, due to the wide - angle design.

Zhang said former Rice physics postdoctoral researcher Alejandro Manjavacas — now at the University of New Mexico — performed the necessary calculations to design the triple resonant nanoparticle.

This can be accomplished by custom - designed or engineered nanoparticles that overcome common challenges, such as the presence of a dense tissue surrounding the pancreas cancer cells.

An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a «bewildering» surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles and nanowires using water droplets.

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.

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.

Once they are engineered with antibodies that bind to specific receptors on the surface of targeted cells, these nanoparticles also can, in principle, become highly specific to the disease they are designed to treat.

In most cases, industrial production of metallic nanoparticles involves chemical reduction in liquid solutions, which requires the design of product - specific solutions.

Wang's research group designed a five - metal catalyst based on these high - entropy - alloy nanoparticles and demonstrated superior catalytic performance for selective oxidation of ammonia to nitrogen oxide, a reaction used by the chemical industry to produce nitric acid, an important chemical in the large - scale production of fertilizers and other products.

It attaches these drugs to polymer nanoparticles that migrate specifically into cancer cells and are designed to release the drugs at a particular level of acidity that is common to those cells.

Previously, the IBS team designed ultrasmall T1 iron oxide nanoparticles (PEG - IONCs), proved the possibility to synthesize them in large quantities, and tested them on mice.

The most complex crystal designed and built from nanoparticles has been reported by researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan.

The most complex crystal designed and built from nanoparticles.

Nanotechnology involves the measurement, design, building, and tailoring of nanoparticles and nanostructures to meet a variety of needs.

The researchers designed the oral delivery system, which contains micro - and nanoparticles, to carry a protein therapy that treats hemophilia B.

Scientists at U.C. San Diego have designed a fluorescent nanoparticle that glows inside the body, making it easier to image tumors and organ damage.

Drug delivery systems (DDS) such as lipid - or polymer - based nanoparticles can be designed to improve the pharmacological and therapeutic properties of drugs administered parenterally.

The peptide - based nanoparticle was designed by study co-investigators Hua Pan, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine, and Samuel Wickline, MD, the James R. Hornsby Family Professor of Biomedical Sciences.

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An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a «bewildering» surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles...

The OIST researchers produced Silicon - Silver nanoparticles using advanced equipment custom - designed specifically for producing multicomponent nanoparticles.

To understand the reactions that create nanoclusters, the team first designed new theoretical and computational approaches to studying the nanoparticle formation.

Why It Matters: Understanding the molecular - level reactions that produce aqueous nanoparticles ultimately aid in designing better crystals for manufacturers and new catalysts for producing alternative fuels.

Working with a world - leading group at the University of Connecticut in the USA, who pioneered the development of self - assembling protein nanoparticles (SAPNs) for vaccine design, they have used advanced mathematical calculations to create a complete picture of the surface morphology of these particles.

At one hub of innovation, MIT's new Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine, researchers have taken aim at ovarian cancer with wide - ranging approaches, crafting nanoparticles designed to diagnose or treat the deadly disease.

The nanoparticles are designed to be flexible delivery vehicles.

We looked to bacteria for inspiration when designing these prototypes based on magnetic nanoparticles.