Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method to more precisely heat up gold nanoparticles to target and destroy cancerous tumors. Using imaging methods that combine light and sound ...

Luminescent gold nanoparticles (L-AuNPs) represent a novel class of luminescent nanomaterials that have attracted considerable attention in recent years. They possess a range of exceptional ...

Dental crowns, radioactive cancer implants, an arthritis drug, and the test strip in your medicine cabinet: gold's medical uses, explained.

This study investigates the anticancer effects of green‑synthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using Spirulina platensis extract on Caco‑2 human colon adenocarcinoma cells. The biosynthesized AgNPs ...

According to a study published in Advanced Functional Materials on November 24 th, 2024, a group of researchers led by Assistant Professor Andy Tay from the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the ...

Researchers developed a manufacturing technique that rapidly generates large quantities of nanoparticles coated with drug-delivering polymers, which hold great potential for treating cancer. The ...

Pancreatic cancer that spreads to the liver is especially difficult to treat because the liver naturally suppresses immune responses, creating an environment where cancer can evade detection and ...

Instead of capturing a memory with an iPhone camera, Carnegie Mellon University's Nivedita Shyamsundar used hers to make a ...

A team of researchers from the Universidad de Sonora in Mexico and the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in Spain has engineered a new class of hybrid nanoparticles that could make cancer ...