Scientists from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a nanoparticle delivery system for the antibiotic moxifloxacin that vastly improves the drug’s effectiveness against pneumonic tularemia, a type of pneumonia caused by inhalation of the bacterium Francisella tularensis. The study, which appears in the journal ACS Nano, shows how the nanoparticle system targets the […]
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars, mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?” A gorgeous hypothetical question from the late great Nobel Prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman. And just last week the […]
Dear Clerk Allan, Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects a new Elsevier journal devoted to all aspects of the synthesis and the properties of this new flourishing domain. ‘Synthesis is the basis of chemistry and at the core of this scientific discipline. A compound or a material has first to be made before its properties can be investigated […]
Creating swarms of soft, robotic hands that can safely dissolve within a living body once they’ve performed surgical procedures or delivered drugs just got a step closer thanks to work done by John Hopkins University scientists. They’ve created minute biodegradable microgrippers by adding stiff polymers containing magnetic nanoparticles to soft hydrogels, allowing them be magnetically […]
