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Surface-modified apatite nanoparticles use pH control to improve biocompatibility of implants

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Medical implants have transformed health care, offering innovative solutions with advanced materials and technologies. However, many biomedical devices face challenges like insufficient cell adhesion, leading to inflammatory responses after their ...

Feb 4, 2025

Nanomaterials are emerging as a powerful tool for coastal oil spill cleanup

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Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a long, expensive process, and the damage to a coastal region's ecosystem can be significant. This is especially true for the world's Arctic region, where newly opened sea lanes will expose remote s...

Feb 4, 2025

Innovative apatite nanoparticles for advancing the biocompatibility of implanted biodevices

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Medical implants have transformed healthcare, offering innovative solutions with advanced materials and technologies. However, many biomedical devices face challenges like insufficient cell adhesion, leading to inflammatory responses after their i...

Feb 4, 2025

Nanodevice generates electricity and light simultaneously using only movement

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DGIST announced that research teams led by Prof. Kim Hoe Joon (Department of Robotics and Mechatronics), Dr. Jeong Soon Moon (Division of Energy and Environmental Technology), and Prof. Mishra (University of Southern Denmark) conducted internation...

Feb 4, 2025

Nanotechnology for oil spill response and cleanup in coastal regions

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Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a long, expensive process, and the damage to a coastal region’s ecosystem can be significant. This is especially true for the world’s Arctic region, where newly opened sea lanes will expose remote shorelines ...

Feb 4, 2025

Nature-inspired nanotechnology acts as body's own courier service for genetic medicines

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A large research team led by nanotechnologist Roy van der Meel rebuilt the body's own proteins and fats into nano-delivery vans that get genetic medicines to exactly the right place in the body. In a joint effort with researchers from Radboud...

Feb 3, 2025

A novel biomaterial for regenerative medicine: Scientists develop acellular nanocomposite living hydrogels

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A biomaterial that can mimic certain behaviors within biological tissues could advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more, according to researchers at Penn State.

Feb 3, 2025

Printable molecule-selective nanoparticles enable mass production of wearable biosensors

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The future of medicine may very well lie in the personalization of health care—knowing exactly what an individual needs and then delivering just the right mix of nutrients, metabolites, and medications, if necessary, to stabilize and improve their...

Feb 3, 2025

Anti-melanoma activity found in green-produced nanosilver-chlorhexidine complex

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Melanoma is a fast-progressing skin cancer characterized by a high mortality rate after metastasis. Local chemotherapy could be considered a therapeutic approach only in stage 0 of progression (in situ melanoma) and in the postoperative phase afte...

Feb 3, 2025

Nature-inspired nanotechnology uses genetic drugs as immunotherapy

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A large research team led by nanotechnologist Roy van der Meel rebuild the body's own proteins and fats into nano delivery vans that get genetic medicines to exactly the right place in the body. In a joint effort with researchers from Radboud...

Feb 3, 2025

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