Osteoarthritis is a highly prevalent joint disease that leads to cartilage breakdown, pain and disability, yet there are ...

Researchers have developed a magnetic nanomaterial that can kill bone cancer cells and support bone regeneration at the same ...

Researchers have developed a new optical computing material from photon avalanching nanoparticles. A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, ...

A class of ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles developed at Cornell is showing an unexpected ability to ...

Detecting cancer in the earliest stages could dramatically reduce cancer deaths because cancers are usually easier to treat ...

Over the decades, many strains of disease-causing bacteria have evolved defenses to even the most potent antibiotics, setting ...

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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. When you ...

The sol-gel process is a widely used method for synthesizing nanoparticles with precise control over size, shape, and composition. This method converts a liquid precursor, or "sol," into a solid gel ...

Nanoparticles are particles sized between 1 to 100 nanometers with a broad range of shapes, structures, and compositions. They encompass a variety of types including metallic, ceramic, polymeric, and ...