al. not only demonstrates a method for building a stable layer of silver
nanoparticles on paper, they have proven that the coated paper kills E. coli and S. aureus.
Proof - of - concept studies at NC State University in collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demonstrated that EbNPs clearly outperform one of the most widely applied antimicrobial
nanoparticles on the market — the silver nanoparticles.
University of Illinois researchers are sending tiny drug - laden
nanoparticles on a mission to seek and destroy cancer stem cells, the elusive and rare cells that can cause cancer to come back even when years have passed since...
In 2013, with a grant from FCT, D. Batista started the PhD studies on the impacts of silver
nanoparticles on freshwater detritus food webs, in a warming scenario.
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Nanoparticles on nanosteps.»
This process enables precise control and optimization of the size and spacing of integrated Au
nanoparticles on crumpled graphene for higher SERS enhancement.»
Lin and his colleagues, including MU scientists Azlin Mustapha and Bongkosh Vardhanabhuti, studied the residue and penetration of silver
nanoparticles on pear skin.
These images confirm that this approach to direct the placement of
nanoparticles on DNA - encoded vertices of molecular frames could be a successful strategy for fabricating novel nanomaterials.
The point was further emphasized in a press release put out by Nature Nanotechnology this week: «These findings suggest that direct and indirect effects of
nanoparticles on cells are equally crucial when considering the potential risks of their use in nanomedicine.»
His laboratory currently applies high throughput imaging technologies to study trafficking between the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex, and the internalization pathways taken by synthetic
nanoparticles on exposure to cells.
Using fruit flies, Fiumera looks at the effects of
nanoparticles on development, physiology and biochemical composition, as well as the microbial community in the GI tract of the fly.
They then used human stem cells derived from bone marrow that would normally become bone cells to test the effects of
the nanoparticles on stem cell proliferation and differentiation.
Researchers at Umeå University, together with researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University, show in a new study how nitrogen doped graphene can be rolled into perfect Archimedean nano scrolls by adhering magnetic iron oxide
nanoparticles on the surface of the graphene sheets.
«You could probably count the world's published literature on exposure to
nanoparticles on both hands,» says Paul Schulte, director of the Education and Information Division of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
«People have looked at the effects of
nanoparticles on intestinal cells before, but they tend to work with really high doses and look for obvious toxicity, like cell death,» said Mahler.
The Rice lab of chemist Andrew Barron grew wheatgrass in a hydroponic garden to test the potential toxicity of
nanoparticles on the plant.
Vassaux's team next plans to test gene therapy carried by
nanoparticles on a variety of tumors in animals.
As the potential mother urinates into a sample - collection area and the pee migrates to a test strip, some of the antibody - coated gold
nanoparticles on the strip latch onto the hCG, migrate up the paper, and collect at an indicator line.
The macroscopic effects of certain
nanoparticles on human health have long been clear to the naked eye.
Testing silver
nanoparticles on fish and other organisms is an important step toward understanding how they will interact in the human body.
Scanning tunneling microscopy, which produces images of individual atoms on a surface, was used to view the behavior of the platinum
nanoparticles on the graphene.
Not exact matches
• Kala Pharmaceuticals, a Waltham, Mass. - based biotech focused
on treating eye diseases with
nanoparticles, filed for an $ 86 million IPO Friday.
Drawing
on his 20 years of engineering experience, Chamtech Technologies founder Anthony Sutera began experimenting and eventually created a liquid composed of
nanoparticles, that when dried, could function as a highly efficient antenna — whether painted onto a building or injected directly into the molding of a cell - phone case.
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.
• Kala Pharmaceuticals, a Waltham, Mass. - based biotech focused
on treating eye diseases with
nanoparticles, raised $ 90 million in an offering of 6 million shares for $ 15 a piece.
The future of proposed studies
on nanoparticles and oil sands contaminants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) may now be dead.
Metal oxides such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are increasingly being used in sunscreens and cosmetics in the form of
nanoparticles — microscopic particles of matter measured
on the nanoscale.
He was an independent reviewer
on the Friends of the Earth report
on nanoparticles in infant formula
The site hosts a growing inventory of products relying
on nanoparticles.
, is funded through a National Science Foundation CAREER award and bridges previous research focused
on designing
nanoparticles for catalytic applications.
All the interdisciplinary skills and knowledge he had gathered during his scientific training — which had covered biochemistry, biotechnology, biomaterials, and stem cell biology — put him «in a very advantageous position to address this question» of how to develop
nanoparticles that could modulate stem cell differentiation
on demand, he says.
The new research focused
on small
nanoparticles — those with diameters of 5 to 15 nanometers.
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.
Lin's lab has worked
on the amphiphilic star - shaped block polymers for several years, adding new features and exploring new capabilities for the
nanoparticle systems.
The Swansea Lab's research is focused
on scale - up of the production of such
nanoparticles by 10 million times to the level of grams, and beyond.
When two spherical
nanoparticles collide, energy dissipates around the initial point of contact
on each one instead of propagating all the way through both.
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.
«Each
nanoparticle its own characteristics and we need to start getting a handle
on these things and how they might interact with the environment,» Gruden said.
Glutathione - capped gold
nanoparticles were then adsorbed
on hydroxyapatite and glutathione was removed by subsequent calcination.
These
nanoparticles are then loaded into microneedles, which are arrayed
on the surface of a patch.
Nanoparticle emissions from traffic have a major effect
on the quality of indoor air and human health.
«We use biological
nanoparticles — a plant virus — to deliver a pesticide,» said Paul Chariou, a PhD student in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve and author of a study
on the process published in the journal ACS Nano.
«Over the past ten years, the central goal of my research has been focused
on finding and introducing overlooked factors at the nanobio interfaces to minimize this bench - to - clinic gap, which might pave a way to accelerate successful clinical translation of
nanoparticles.
Scientists at the Center for Soft and Living Matter, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), made a surfactant based
on nanoparticle dimers, which is responsive to multiple stimuli.
Another study to be presented at the conference
on Thursday shows beneficial soil bacteria can not tolerate silver, copper oxide and zinc oxide
nanoparticles, also used in sunscreens and other products.
On / off switching of hydrogen production was achieved using the
nanoparticle catalyst because it could be easily separated from its organosilane substrate by filtration.
On the other hand, the fibre filter was more efficient than the electric one at removing the very smallest
nanoparticles.
«These differences could have a critical impact
on the administration of
nanoparticles,» said Mahmoudi.
«For years, researchers have focused
on delivering more chemotherapy drugs into cancer cells using
nanoparticles, without targeting the root of drug resistance,» He said.
This interacted with proteins
on the cell surface called proteoglycans which led to the
nanoparticles being ingested by the cell.