/ 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. Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment, it continues to impose a significant health burden globally. Researchers have now started exploring various innovative methods, such as engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) that can enable targeted drug delivery to cancer cells. While promising, the in vivo behavior of pH-responsive ENMs, which continuously interact with body fluids once administered, remains poorly understood. /news/2025-08-ph-responsive-graphene-nanocarriers-precision.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Thu, 07 Aug 2025 10:20:04 EDT news673780802 The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a nanomaterial capable of simultaneously performing cancer diagnosis, treatment, and immune response induction. Compared to conventional nanomaterials that only perform one function, this new material significantly enhances treatment efficiency and is expected to serve as a next-generation cancer therapy platform utilizing nanotechnology. /news/2025-07-smart-nanomaterial-cancer-diagnosis-treatment.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:10:01 EDT news670780817 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 Researchers have developed an innovative nano-immune agonist that significantly improves immunotherapy outcomes for melanoma—a highly aggressive and hard-to-treat form of skin cancer. /news/2025-04-smart-nanotherapy-immune-melanoma.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:47:20 EDT news664544837 Traditionally, radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery have been the most common ways to remove and destroy malignant cells. However, because these treatments can also damage healthy cells, they often have significant side effects. Today, more precise and targeted therapies are emerging, designed to attack cancer cells while sparing normal tissues. /news/2025-03-precision-cancer-treatment-magnet-nanoparticles.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:09:04 EST news660485341 Photoimmunotherapy is an innovative cancer treatment that combines phototherapy with immunotherapy to selectively target and destroy cancer cells. In photoimmunotherapy, a photosensitizer or nanomaterial is introduced into the tumor tissue, and upon exposure to light of a specific wavelength, it triggers a localized therapeutic response. /news/2025-02-nanoplatform-boost-cancer-photoimmunotherapy-effectiveness.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:41:22 EST news659180477 Melanoma is a fast-progressing skin cancer characterized by a high mortality rate after metastasis. Local chemotherapy could be considered a therapeutic approach only in stage 0 of progression (in situ melanoma) and in the postoperative phase after surgical removal of suspected skin lesions. For this purpose, drugs such as Imiquimod, 5-Fluorouracil, Dacarbazine, and Doxorubicin have been tested and shown positive effects. Recently, metal nanoparticles as separate therapeutic units or drug carriers have also fallen into the research focus. /news/2025-01-green-tea-derived-nanosilver-complex.html Bio & Medicine Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:29:02 EST news657541741 Atherosclerosis is the build-up of plaque in the arteries which causes their narrowing. It is a primary cause of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and ischemic stroke (IS), both of which are major contributors to the 17.9 million deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases each year globally. The incidence of atherosclerosis-related conditions has been rising steadily over the past three decades, and particularly in younger populations. The increase is driven by lifestyle factors such as unhealthy diets, lack of exercise, smoking, and alcohol consumption. /news/2024-09-nanoparticle-technology-diagnosis-treatment-atherosclerosis.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:38:27 EDT news645896304 A research group from Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a novel method for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) therapy by transplanting mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which improved the therapeutic efficacy and realized real-time treatment visualization. The study was published in Science Advances. /news/2024-09-trimetallic-based-nanocarriers-method-visualized.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:47:03 EDT news645698821 Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have established a new optogenetic approach that can control the bacterial production of proteins at the mRNA level using blue light. The new system gates the activation of the genetic substance particularly effectively and thus surpasses previous approaches. It provides new tools for basic research and biotechnology. /news/2024-08-responsive-gene-mrna.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:17:11 EDT news642845827 In a study published in PNAS, a research team has resolved the first high-resolution structure of the sgc8c DNA aptamer that targets protein tyrosine kinase 7 (PTK7), engineered two optimal sgc8c variants for disease theranostics efficiently, and revealed new principles for the sophisticated structural and functional organization of DNA molecules. /news/2024-07-deciphers-intricate-3d-dna-aptamer.html Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:51:03 EDT news640608662 Bacterial biofilm infections are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among patients with cystic fibrosis or those with weakened immune systems. Treatment for biofilm infections usually entails intensive antibiotic therapy. There is an urgent need for well-designed agents to achieve in vivo diagnosis and precise anti-biofilm therapy without bacterial resistance. Unfortunately, no effective agent has been designed to perform these tasks adequately. /news/2024-06-lanthanide-nanohybrids-pulmonary-biofilm-infections.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:39:48 EDT news637317584 Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women, posing a serious threat to female health. Due to the high inter- and intra-tumoral heterogeneity of breast cancer, clinical treatment and prognosis can vary greatly in patients. /news/2024-03-dual-mirna-triggered-dna-nanomachine.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:45:03 EDT news630686701 If left to their own devices, bacteria on our teeth or wounded skin can encase themselves in a slimy scaffolding, turning into what is called biofilm. These bacteria wreak havoc on our tissue and, being shielded from antibiotic medication by the slime, are difficult to dislodge. A new strategy may offer a simple way to break up the muck and destroy the bacteria. /news/2024-03-sugar-coated-gold-nanoparticles-quickly.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:24:03 EDT news629547841 Recently, a research team led by Prof. Wu Zhengyan from Hefei Institutes of Â鶹ÒùÔºical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration Binzhou Medical University, successfully designed a nanostructure that improves the detection and treatment of tumors. /news/2024-01-tumor-microenvironment-nanostructure-enables-precise.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:45:03 EST news623951101 When it comes to delivering drugs to the body, a major challenge is ensuring that they remain in the area they're treating and continuing to deliver their payload accurately. While major strides have been made in delivering drugs, monitoring them is a challenge that often requires invasive procedures like biopsies. /news/2023-12-self-assembling-self-illuminating-therapeutic-proteins.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:47:04 EST news622378021 Upconversion (UC) luminescence is a process that converts low-energy photons into higher-energy ones with promising applications in diverse fields. However, known UC mechanisms mainly focus on the energy transfer processes between metal ions, while the role of organic ligands needs to be explored. /news/2023-11-excited-multimer-supramolecular-upconversion-multicomponent-lanthanide-organic.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:57:02 EDT news618137820 Â鶹ÒùÔºicians and researchers rely on biomedical imaging to examine the structure and function of living tissue. This enables disease diagnostics and experiments that reveal the mechanisms behind pathologies and ways to treat them. The most popular techniques for radiation-free imaging are ultrasound and MRI scans. Optoacoustics, on the other hand, is a promising emerging approach only recently introduced into clinical practice. /news/2023-09-scientists-mri-ultrasound-optoacoustics-medical.html Bio & Medicine Nanophysics Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:05:55 EDT news614937950 Fluorescence-guided intervention strategies can improve standard therapies to detect and treat microscopic tumors to thereby prevent lethal recurrence. Cancer biologists have made tremendous progress in photoimmunotherapy and nanotechnology to treat metastasis, although the effects of such techniques are limited by heterogeneous effects. /news/2023-09-nanotherapy-fluorescence-guided-photoimmunotherapy-peritoneal-carcinomatosis.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:10:01 EDT news614857190 Atherosclerosis is characterized by the hardening of blood vessels, especially certain arteries, due to the local buildup of fibers and lipids (mainly cholesterol) in the inner wall of an artery, causing it to narrow. It is a complex disease that can trigger life-threatening events, such as myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. /news/2023-09-atherosclerosis-diagnosis-ultrasmall-calcium-carbonate.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:52:03 EDT news613903921 Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a new approach to potentially detect and kill cancer cells, especially those that form a solid tumor mass. They have created hybrid nanoparticles made of gold and copper sulfide that can kill cancer cells using heat and enable their detection using sound waves, according to a study published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. /news/2023-09-hybrid-nanoparticles-cancer-cells.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:49:03 EDT news613648141 A new nanocomplex renders a tumor harmless—and, on top of that, it trains the immune system to detect and eliminate metastases. /news/2023-09-nanocomplex-unleashes-immune-metastases.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:07:03 EDT news613300021 Scandium radioisotopes are potentially useful for medical imaging such as positron emission tomography (PET) scans. However, health care providers do not currently use these isotopes to image cancer because they are difficult to produce in the amounts and purities appropriate for human use. In particular, they must be made using special isotopically enriched calcium targets. These targets are rare, expensive, and difficult to use in an accelerator. A new study describes ways to make and irradiate accelerator targets for scandium. These targets produce enough radioactive scandium to perform more than a dozen diagnostic PET assessments of human patients. The process recycles the calcium target material with more than 95% efficiency. /news/2023-08-production-short-lived-scandium-radioisotopes.html Materials Science Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:47:38 EDT news611250446 Liquid metals (LM) such as pure gallium (Ga) and Ga-based alloys are a new class of materials with unique physicochemical properties. One of the most prominent applications of LMs is photothermal therapy against cancer, in which functional LM nanoparticles convert light energy to heat energy, thus killing cancerous cells. LM-based phototherapy is superior to traditional cancer therapy owing to its high specificity, repeatability, and low side effects. /news/2023-08-liquid-metal-nanoparticles-cancer-photoimmunotherapy.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Fri, 04 Aug 2023 06:26:02 EDT news610349146 For the first time in the world researchers at Tel Aviv University have encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA (messenger RNA) molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin—which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%. /news/2023-07-cancer-cells-commit-suicide-self-produced.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:44:52 EDT news607671888 From early detection and internal treatment of diseases to futuristic applications like augmenting human memory, biological computing, or biocomputing, has the potential to revolutionize medicine and computers. /news/2023-05-biocomputing-method-enzymes-catalysts-dna-based.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 01 May 2023 08:51:03 EDT news602149861 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), known as "immortal cancer," is a chronic, progressive autoimmune inflammatory disease. The development and application of an RA high-sensitivity theranostics probe can help to accurately monitor the progression and realize the efficient treatment of RA. /news/2023-02-autofluorescence-free-imaging-guided-precision-therapy-rheumatoid.html Bio & Medicine Fri, 10 Feb 2023 09:44:35 EST news595244670 National University of Singapore chemists have discovered that aggregated, photosensitized, gold nanoparticle conjugates can be used for multimodal imaging and synergistic phototherapy to destroy cancer cells effectively at power densities below the skin tolerance threshold. The research is published in the journal Nano Today. /news/2023-02-aggregated-gold-nanoparticle-conjugates-multimodal.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 09 Feb 2023 08:55:03 EST news595155301 Oregon State University scientists have produced a proof of concept for a new and better way of caring for women facing the life-threatening situation of ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when a fertilized egg implants somewhere other than the lining of the uterus. /news/2022-11-light-sensitive-nanoparticle-ectopic-pregnancy.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:36:03 EST news588274561 In September, researchers from California and Denmark were awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of "click" chemistry, a process in which molecules snap together like LEGO, making them a potentially more efficient transportation device in delivering pharmaceuticals to cancer tumors. /news/2022-11-click-chemistry-dogs-bone-cancer.html Veterinary medicine Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:32:05 EDT news586787522