Seasonal flu vaccines must be updated each year to match the influenza viruses that are predicted to be most common during the upcoming flu season, but protection doesn't always meet expectations

Researchers centered at Nagoya University develop a nanowire device able to detect microscopic levels of urinary markers potentially implicated in cancer

Computational modeling key in design

Silver nanoparticles are being used in clothing for their anti-odor abilities but some of this silver comes off when the clothes are laundered

Researchers have created nanoparticles that attract viruses and, using the pressure resulting from the binding process, destroy them

Researchers from three different universities are  working together to develop and test what they think could be a better way to fight the flu

Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting

Rice University toxicity study shows plant growth enhanced by—but only by—purified nanotubes

Physicists have developed a reliable strategy to separate chemically identical macromolecules that differ only in their shape

Research team creates polymer nanoagents that can 'light up' tiny areas of diseased tissues that conventional methods fail to detect