In A Nutshell Tiny glow-in-the-dark particles injected into the bloodstream light up on command when a focused sound beam is ...

Delivering light to a tumor buried centimeters inside the body has always required threading a fiber-optic cable through ...

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...

A tiny engineered particle cooked up at Oregon State University is pulling off a big trick in mice: when injected and hit ...

Pitkin County’s air quality monitoring at the local airport is based on national standards, which don’t have a threshold ...

In a demonstration that could help pave the way for gene therapies with fewer side effects, several human cell types have been genetically modified with protein nanoparticles designed at University of ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a simplified version of biodegradable nanoparticles that can "educate" the immune system to find and destroy disease-causing cells throughout ...

Aviad Elisha is at the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, and in the Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, the Center for Nanoscience ...

Sulfate radical (SO4•- )-based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are appealing for removing persistent organic pollutants ...

How do astronauts track sleep? A new study introduces a smartphone-based melatonin test that monitors circadian rhythms in just 15 minutes using fluorescent nanoparticles.