Testing for HIV using only a smartphone

Fast, cheap, and easy medical testing devices can help diagnose diseases across the world. Let's learn about one recently developed to detect HIV!

Say No to Drugs: Fast and Efficient Drug Detection in Biofluids

How are Olympic doping agents similar to environmental water contaminants? It all relates back to chemical detection methods!

A pass to the cell: designing peptides for drug delivery.

Antibodies can be used as medicines, but they need some help to enter the cell. In this paper, the help that they need arrives from another molecule that works as a ticket for the cell taxi.

Smart Bandages for Wound Monitoring

"Smart" bandages - or bandages that provide real-time monitoring of the health and progress of wound healing are here!

Nanoreactors for Enzyme Cascades

What are nanoreactors and how can they enhance multi-enzyme reactions? Let's find out!

Nature Does It Best! – Engineering New Catalysts Using Evolution

As versatile as enzymes already are, it's actually possible to engineer enzymes to catalyze reactions that are entirely new to nature!

Duality of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy

Title: Duality of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy: Amplification of Heating Efficiency by Magnetic Hyperthermia and Photothermal Bimodal Treatment Authors: Ana Espinosa, Riccardo Di Corato, Jelena Kolosnjaj-Tabi, Patrice Flaud, Teresa Pellegrino, and Claire Wilhelm DOI 10.1021/acsnano.5b07249 By: Ehsan Moaseri – Behzad Changalvaie In our previous Bite, “plasmonic photothermal Therapy (PPTT) using gold nanoparticles”, we...