Magnetic particle imaging is a novel imaging technique that allows for quantitative direct imaging of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs). These advanced nanoparticles have shown great ...

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed a new light-based nanotechnology that could improve how certain cancers are ...

Nanomedicine. 2013;8(1):123-143. Many of these types of NPs have been researched for brain cancer for these reasons and can be broken down into three main functions: NPs for diagnostic imaging, NPs ...

Tissue macrophage numbers vary during health versus disease. Abundant inflammatory macrophages destruct tissues, leading to atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and heart failure. Emerging ...

(Nanowerk News) Sara Brenner, MD, MPH and colleagues at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly), the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and SUNY Stony Brook have demonstrated a ...

Over the past decade there has been an explosion in the number of nanotechnology-based agents that have been applied to biological and medical applications. It is generally believed that these agents ...

Health care professionals use tiny particles of gold (nanoparticles) for a variety of medical applications—from diagnostic imaging to cancer treatment. Gold works well for these applications because ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020, the mRNA vaccines came to the rescue of many people—but in the background there was another, lesser known, hero: the lipid nanoparticle.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Imagine the possibility of non-invasive, non-radiation based Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in combating cardiac disease. Researchers at the Savannah River National Laboratory ...

Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNs) are an emerging class of luminescent nanomaterials, exhibiting many advantages over conventional fluorophores, such as high signal-to-noise ratio and superior ...

Contrast enhancement: In vivo CT images of abdominal aortic aneurysms in mice with and without GNPs. The images showed significantly higher CT attenuation values in the perivascular area (yellow ...

Fidgety kids and skittish birds don’t sit still long enough to have their pictures taken. Neither do nanoparticles floating and rotating around in solution. But that hasn’t stopped a team of ...