Small interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, hold promise to treat tumors, through their ability to specifically knock down oncogenes that promote tumor growth, without the toxicity that accompanies ...

Polymer vesicles, commonly termed polymersomes, are self-assembled, hollow nanostructures formed from amphiphilic block copolymers. They mimic the compartmentalised architecture of biological ...

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and collaborators have introduced a novel therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that leverages the multivalency of ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have engineered polymer-based nanoparticles that form with a simple temperature shift. The team reports ...

Researchers designed nanoparticles that can self-assemble at room temperature and deliver RNA (green) to living cells (nuclei shown in blue), offering a new pathway to vaccine and biologic drug design ...

An international team of researchers has developed miniscule, self-propelled devices that mimic the way cells move. These “nanoswimmers” cross the blood–brain barrier highly efficiently, and could ...

Tiny bubbles and other nanostructures that form spontaneously when highly branched bifunctional compounds are put in water have been discovered and characterized. The nanostructures may be more ...