/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA using a genetic tool known as a base editor. The results, published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, offer new hope for people with rare genetic conditions. /news/2025-06-scientists-gene-mitochondrial-mutations-human.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:00:01 EDT news669972362 Mimicking the incredible skill of mother nature is never easy, especially when trying to match the remarkable chemical processes that take place in living organisms. Living systems, like cells, can carry out chemical reactions in very small spaces, sometimes involving single molecules. For many years, researchers have attempted to emulate this to allow for the manufacturing of specialized chemical compounds, but with limited success. /news/2025-06-small-reaction-space-big-impact.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:00:03 EDT news669972901 Capstan Therapeutics scientists demonstrate that lipid nanoparticles can engineer CAR T cells within the body without laboratory cell manufacturing and ex vivo expansion. The method using targeted lipid nanoparticles (tLNPs) is designed to deliver messenger RNA specifically to CD8+ T cells. /news/2025-06-lipid-nanoparticles-car-cells-vivo.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:10:04 EDT news669891654 Scientists at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Nanjing University in China have developed a new drug delivery system that could improve how treatments for cancers and other diseases are delivered. /news/2025-06-proteinpolymer-nanoparticles-higher-drug-stability.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:00:01 EDT news669283621 A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons. /news/2025-06-electron-microscopy-technique-captures-nanoparticle.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:19:04 EDT news669485941 A gene-editing delivery system developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers simultaneously targeted the liver and lungs of a preclinical model of a rare genetic disease known as alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), significantly improving symptoms for months after a single treatment, a new study shows. The findings, published in Nature Biotechnology, could lead to new therapies for a variety of genetic diseases that affect multiple organs. /news/2025-06-gene-nanoparticle-multiple-simultaneously.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:14:04 EDT news669485642 Researchers led by a team at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to create tiny droplets of one liquid inside another liquid without mixing the two together. /news/2025-06-liquid-programmable-droplets-potential-carbon.html Nanomaterials Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:33:32 EDT news669472409 A collaborative team from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine have unraveled the mathematics of a 500-million-year-old protein network that acts like the body's bouncer, "deciding" which foreign materials get degraded by immune cells and which are allowed entry. /news/2025-06-code-body-ancient-immune-defense.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:01:02 EDT news669466853 A new UC Riverside-led study reveals how common small particles produced by nature as well as human activities can transform upon entering plant cells and weaken plants' ability to turn sunlight into food. The discovery offers a path to control this issue. /news/2025-06-ubiquitous-small-particles.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:18:04 EDT news669457081 How do we know exactly what is happening at a molecular level during extremely fast processes, such as burning during combustion? In less than the blink of an eye, one chemical compound and then another are present in a flame only to disperse and give way to more. Understanding which molecules are present gives scientists a way of understanding the inner workings of the chemical processes taking place. /news/2025-06-snap-science-molecular.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:23:04 EDT news669385381 Dr. Seunggun Yu and his team at KERI's Insulation Materials Research Center have developed "Hybrid Supraparticle Synthesis Technology" that can attach inorganic nanoparticles to the surface of polymer microparticles through simple mechanical collisions. The work is published in the journal Advanced Materials. /news/2025-06-nanoparticles-polymers-toy-blocks-simple.html Nanomaterials Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:51:00 EDT news669383456 Scientists have discovered that the internal shape of tiny drug-delivery particles—called lipid nanoparticles—has a big impact on how well our cells absorb them, paving the way to more efficient vaccine and drug delivery. /news/2025-06-lipid-nanoparticle-cell-uptake-cubosomes.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:41:35 EDT news669296492 A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement for some combinations of atoms, according to a study from the University of Michigan. /news/2025-06-quantum-mechanical-quasicrystals-reveals.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:10:01 EDT news669034497 Understanding how drug delivery systems distribute in vivo remains a major challenge in developing nanomedicines. Especially in the lung, the complex and dynamic microenvironment often limits the effectiveness of existing approaches. /news/2025-06-nanogrid-drug-delivery-precise-lung.html Bio & Medicine Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:21:06 EDT news669032452 A major cause of hospital-acquired infections, the super bacteria Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), not only exhibits strong resistance to existing antibiotics but also forms a dense biofilm that blocks the effects of external treatments. /news/2025-06-microbubble-driven-nanoparticles-gene-suppressors.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:06:05 EDT news669024362 The drug pipeline—the process through which a potential new drug gets discovered, tested, approved, and marketed—is a notoriously long and arduous process, and even the most promising drugs can languish or die on the road to the clinic. /news/2025-06-polymeric-package-breast-cancer-nanoparticle.html Bio & Medicine Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:55:47 EDT news669023743 Since the time of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, cancer has been recognized as being sensitive to heat. Today, this principle forms the basis of hyperthermia treatment—a promising cancer therapy that uses controlled heat to kill tumor cells while sparing healthy ones. /news/2025-06-cancer-cells-cholesterol-armor-survive.html Cell & Microbiology Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:40:03 EDT news668947121 Tools that offer early and accurate insight into plant health—and allow individual plant interventions—are key to increasing crop yields as environmental pressures increasingly impact horticulture and agriculture. /news/2025-06-gentle-robot-gripper-shot-sensors.html Biotechnology Agriculture Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:56:51 EDT news668876205 Excessive nutrients in wastewater can lead to detrimental discharges into natural water bodies, prompting harmful algal blooms with severe environmental and economic repercussions. To address this pressing issue, a team of engineers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has developed an innovative solution. Their novel composite nanotechnology removes and recovers nutrients from wastewater, subsequently upcycling them as agricultural fertilizers or as biorefinery feedstocks while simultaneously mitigating the occurrence of harmful algal blooms. /news/2025-06-nanotechnology-fertilizer.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:34:43 EDT news668871279 In the "Mission: Impossible" films, superspy Ethan Hunt—played by Tom Cruise—gets orders from his superiors on various devices that self-destruct in five seconds. Could electronics disintegrate into nothing in real life? Binghamton University Professor Seokheun "Sean" Choi has researched disposable "papertronics" over the past 20 years, but the hardest part about making so-called transient electronics is the battery. /news/2025-06-probiotic-powered-dissolvable-battery-acidic.html Bio & Medicine Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:46:03 EDT news668429161 Every day, tons of COâ‚‚ are released into the atmosphere, but what if we could transform it using clean energy? This is the question explored in a recent Politecnico di Milano study, which was featured on the cover of the journal ACS Catalysis. The research focuses on a process that transforms carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methane using carefully engineered nickel nanoparticles. /news/2025-06-methane-scientists-nickel-nanoparticle-size.html Nanomaterials Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:51:03 EDT news668357461 Scientists have made a key breakthrough in treating respiratory diseases by developing a new drug delivery system that transports genetic therapies directly to the lungs, opening promising possibilities for patients with conditions like lung cancer and cystic fibrosis. /news/2025-06-nanoparticle-based-genetic-delivery-lungs.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:07:30 EDT news668354830 Cornell researchers have developed a new way to safely heat up specific areas inside the body by using biodegradable polymers that contain tiny water pockets, which are then activated by near-infrared laser. The technology could lead to precise and noninvasive diagnostics and therapeutics, perhaps to fight cancer. /news/2025-06-tiny-biodegradable-polymers-precisely-diseased.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:04:46 EDT news668347478 Researchers from UConn's College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR) and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) have demonstrated that a novel protein-based nanoparticle can make mRNA vaccines more effective to tackle a troublesome pathogen in chickens. /news/2025-06-poultry-disease-mrna-nanoparticle-approach.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:35:27 EDT news668334923 As climate change fuels the spread of plant diseases worldwide, a new nanoparticle smart spray could help crops defend themselves by blocking harmful bacteria from entering through tiny pores in their leaves. /news/2025-06-nanoparticle-smart-spray-crops-block.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:02:04 EDT news668253722 Â鶹ÒùÔºicists at Loughborough University have used cutting-edge nanotechnology to create what they believe may be "the world's smallest violin," which is small enough to fit within the width of a human hair. /news/2025-06-physicists-world-smallest-violin-nanotechnology.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:26:29 EDT news668168779 A team of researchers with a variety of backgrounds and affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has taken a realistic approach to looking at the question of whether Mars could be terraformed. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group suggests that the time has come to look at the means by which Mars could be terraformed, and then whether such a task should be undertaken. /news/2025-06-realistic-terraforming-mars.html Astrobiology Planetary Sciences Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:47:13 EDT news668166379 Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), in collaboration with national and international research centers, have identified a key immune cell subtype involved in the development of atherosclerosis. In a study published in Circulation Research, the team tested an experimental therapy in animal models based on immunosuppressive nanoparticles and demonstrated that it can slow disease progression. /news/2025-06-immunosuppressive-nanoparticles-atherosclerosis-animal.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:59:04 EDT news668102342 A research team at CiQUS (University of Santiago de Compostela) has developed a new catalytic material that can be switched on and off at will—a breakthrough that could significantly extend the lifetime of hydrogen production systems and make the process more efficient and sustainable. /news/2025-06-switchable-catalytic-nanointerfaces-hydrogen-production.html Nanomaterials Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:16:56 EDT news668092613 A protein that gives fleas their bounce has been used to boot out bacteria cells, with lab results demonstrating the material's potential for preventing medical implant infection. /news/2025-06-insect-protein-blocks-bacterial-infection.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:36:04 EDT news668079361