A novel class of light-sensitive nanoparticles may one day enable new approaches to medical imaging. They were developed by a ...

Wounds that do not heal are often caused by bacterial infections and are particularly dangerous for the elderly and people ...

Plastic pollution represents a global environmental challenge, and once in the environment, plastic can fragment into smaller and smaller pieces.

One of the biggest advantages of the new polymer-based nanoparticles over current lipid-based models is the potential for low-tech, decentralized production. Hossainy says he imagines being able to ...

Nanoplastics from plastic pollution can enter vegetables, raising new concerns about food safety, human health, and ...

Fluorescent nanomaterials smaller than 10 nm can disrupt drug-resistant bacteria through multiple mechanisms while enabling ...

A new study from Purdue University reveals that using heat-styling tools, such as curling irons and flat irons, especially with common hair products like sprays and serums, can release billions of ...

Wounds that do not heal are often caused by bacterial infections and are particularly dangerous for the elderly and people with diabetes, cancer and ...

A synthetic cell that can be activated by a magnetic field to release a medicine while deep in the body has been created by chemists at UCL (University College London) and the University of Oxford.

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But exploiting this process could reduce the side effects of chemotherapy.

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One of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear X-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke, Spada ...