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Biotechnology

Nanoparticles for Rheumatoid Arthritis Prevention, Flare Control

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Nanoparticles Show Promise in Preventing Rheumatoid Arthritis Flares
Human life begins with a single egg cell that grows into a human being with trillions of cells. To ensure that the highly complex development of tissues and organs is as protected as possible, the placental barrier keeps pathogens and foreign substances out. (Representational Image: Unsplash)
Medicine

Nanoparticles: Risk for Babies in the Womb

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Impact of pollution on embryonic development
Star’s sensor uses carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles to tell fentanyl apart from other opioids. (Representational Image: Pixabay)
Medicine

Nanotubes, Nanoparticles, and Antibodies Detect Tiny Amounts of Fentanyl

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New sensor is six orders of magnitude more sensitive than the next best thing
Jianjun Guan, a materials scientist in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has an idea that might eliminate or improve both of those issues. (Representational Image: Wikimedia Commons)
Medicine

Smart Nanoparticles May Be Able to Deliver Drugs to Heart After Heart Attack

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Jianjun Guan creates custom nanoparticles to fight inflammation, fibrosis
A nanoparticle-based therapy that potentially harnessed the power of the body’s immune system eradicated tumors in mouse models of various cancer types. (Representational image : Unsplash)
Biotechnology

Nanoparticles Developed at UTSW Effectively Fight Tumors

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Activating a specific pathway in a subset of immune cells eradicates immunologically ‘cold’ tumors, UTSW study shows
Scientists have been making nanoparticles out of DNA strands for two decades, manipulating the bonds that maintain DNA’s double-helical shape to sculpt self-assembling structures that could someday have jaw-dropping medical applications. (Representational Image: Pixabay)
Medicine

Building a DNA Nanoparticle to Be Both Carrier and Medicine

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In a recent paper published in Scientific Reports, a peer-reviewed journal, Henderson and Oh described how they constructed DNA nanoparticles capable of expressing genetic code.
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