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Explore how on-target precision therapies improve patient outcomes and drug tolerability.

Learn how immunotherapy is revolutionizing autoimmune disorder treatment.

Cancer vaccines offer the opportunity to use the patient’s own immune system in the fight against tumors.

In the race to deliver successful gene therapies, frontrunner AAVs come head to head with underdog lipid nanoparticles. 

mRNA-encoded self-assembling enveloped virus-like particles presenting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein enhance immunity and may provide better protection against viral variants. 

By packaging lipid nanoparticles with elements that decrease the fibrous nature of solid tumors, researchers can deliver CRISPR therapies in a more efficient manner.

Scientists incorporate sensitive nanoparticles to rapidly detect DNA and RNA.

Mass photometry is an interferometric scattering-based technique offering researchers unprecedented characterization of biomolecular complexes and oligomerization in physiologically-relevant situations.

Explore why extracellular vesicles are attractive candidates for new therapeutic approaches.

When coated with positively charged particles, the bacteria shuttled antigens out of tumors and activated the immune system, a study finds.

Performance-based pros and cons of common nanoparticle probes

Silica-gold nanoshells highlight how good probe design can boost assay performance.

Researchers turned white blood cells called neutrophils into drug-smuggling “neutrobots,” which penetrated the blood-brain barrier to treat brain cancer in mice.

Researchers are engineering microbes to deliver therapeutics specifically to tumors, maximizing the treatments’ efficacy while minimizing side effects.

Autonomous, living microrobots that seek and destroy cancer are not as futuristic as one might imagine, thanks to a fusion of robotics and synthetic biology.

Inhaling combustion-produced particles may lead to the development of brain tumors.

DNA-coated gold nanorods enable cells to be activated by light without genetic manipulation.

DNA-loaded nanoparticles that respond to infrared light provide an alternative way to control cell behavior.

Researchers injected the retinas of mice with nanoparticles that bound to photoreceptors and converted near-infrared light to green light that the animals could see.