A new therapy involving laser light and sugar-coated gold nanoparticles can rapidly destroy slimy bacterial accumulations called "biofilms" that cause tooth decay and infect wounds—all without needing ...

Of the many weapons science has come to offer in the fight against cancer, ones that are showing plenty of potential are gold nanoparticles. We have seen how these could be grown inside tumors to ...

Engineers have shown that they can enhance the performance of drug-delivery nanoparticles by controlling an inherent trait of chemical structures, known as chirality -- the 'handedness' of the ...

Trace quantities of tumour biomarkers can be detected in unprocessed blood samples using nanoparticle technology developed at the University of New South Wales. The electrochemistry-based approach ...