A novel AuNP-based assay highly sensitive to acetylcholinesterase (AChE) may detect a risk or a preclinical stage of Alzheimer’s disease.

A novel AuNP-based assay highly sensitive to acetylcholinesterase (AChE) may detect a risk or a preclinical stage of Alzheimer’s disease.
Workers with existing allergic conditions have worse reactions when exposed to nanoparticles, caused by a Trojan horse known as an exosome.
Confocal microscopy and flow cytometry results suggest that nanoparticle uptake defies the expected size limits.
A new protocol combines gold nanoparticles with an enzyme substrate to give a simple test for the activity of an enzyme, the results of which can be seen with the naked eye.
A nanoparticle-based nerve agent detector is developed by researchers in Korea
Microbarcodes embedded with rare earth nanocrystals show promise for disease detection and biomedicine.
Professor Geoffrey Ozin brags about nanoparticles and the interesting things they can accomplish in Bragg mirrors.
Dr. Stijn Mertens, Belgium, talks about his group’s recent achievements in forming nanoparticles that consist of a core of pure gold surrounded by a solid solution of gold and mercury.
Assembly of metallic nanoparticles into chains or plasmonic networks is affected by temperature and kinetics.
Copper nanoparticles can be made due to the interaction of an argon plasma with CuCl (CuCl2) ionic liquid solutions.