Dr Nicholas Fletcher – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland Smart nanoparticles on straight path to cure cancer Within the next decade cancer patients may benefit from a new treatment that uses specially designed tiny particles or ‘nanoparticles’ that carry drugs directly to the cancer cells without the typical side effects…
A future without injections draws one step closer with the development of smart material designs that may deliver drugs to targeted areas of the body. Dr Tu Le, a CSIRO research scientist, has developed a tool that predicts the behaviour of self-assembling nanoparticles, allowing for the accurate design of smart nanocapsules for drugs, gene therapies…
Longer shelf lives for creams and lotions, and better control over how and where the active ingredients they contain are released. Those are the potential benefits of using specially engineered nanoparticles—so small that about a thousand of them could fit across a human hair—to create the emulsions on which such cosmetic and therapeutic products are based, says Nasrin Eskander from the University of South Australia’s Ian Wark Research Institute.
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