Nanobiotechnology

Nanobiotechnology is a discipline in which tools from nanotechnology are developed and applied to study biological phenomena. For example, nanoparticles can serve as probes, sensors or vehicles for biomolecule delivery in cellular systems.

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News and Views | 07 February 2019

Local magnetic activation of CRISPR
- Mu-Nung Hsu
- & Yu-Chen Hu
Nature Biomedical Engineering 3, 83-84
News and Views | 28 January 2019

Opening the vascular gate
- Tsveta S. Malinova
- & Stephan Huveneers
Nature Nanotechnology, 1-2
News and Views | 28 January 2019

Trojan horses for immunotherapy
- Jeffrey A. Hubbell
- & Melody A. Swartz
Nature Nanotechnology, 1-2

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Research | 15 February 2019 | open

Disulfide-mediated conversion of 8-mer bowl-like protein architecture into three different nanocages

Shape transformation of proteins created by design in the laboratory is challenging. Here, the authors present a disulfide-mediated approach for the preparation of 16-mer, 24-mer, and 48-mer nanocages from an 8-mer bowl-like protein building block.
- Jiachen Zang
- , Hai Chen
- , Xiaorong Zhang
- , Chenxi Zhang
- , Jing Guo
- , Ming Du
- & Guanghua Zhao
Nature Communications 10, 778
Research | 15 February 2019 | open

Highly efficient photothermal nanoagent achieved by harvesting energy via excited-state intramolecular motion within nanoparticles

Molecular motion has attracted a wide range of interest for different applications. Here, the authors develop nanoparticles with internal molecular motion upon near infrared absorption and use the nanoparticles for photoacoustic imaging and demonstrate this application in vivo.
- Zheng Zhao
- , Chao Chen
- , Wenting Wu
- , Fenfen Wang
- , Lili Du
- , Xiaoyan Zhang
- , Yu Xiong
- , Xuewen He
- , Yuanjing Cai
- , Ryan T. K. Kwok
- , Jacky W. Y. Lam
- , Xike Gao
- , Pingchuan Sun
- , David Lee Phillips
- , Dan Ding
- & Ben Zhong Tang
Nature Communications 10, 768
Research | 14 February 2019 | open

New mechanism of plasmons specific for spin-polarized nanoparticles
- Hari L. Bhatta
- , Ali E. Aliev
- & Vladimir P. Drachev
Scientific Reports 9, 2019
Research | 14 February 2019 | open

High sensitivity detection of extracellular vesicles immune-captured from urine by conventional flow cytometry
- Carmen Campos-Silva
- , Henar Suárez
- , Ricardo Jara-Acevedo
- , Estefanía Linares-Espinós
- , Luis Martinez-Piñeiro
- , María Yáñez-Mó
- & Mar Valés-Gómez
Scientific Reports 9, 2042
Research | 14 February 2019 | open

Direct RNA sequencing on nanopore arrays redefines the transcriptional complexity of a viral pathogen

Here, Depledge et al. use nanopore arrays for direct RNA sequencing to profile the HSV-1 transcriptome in productively infected cells. Sequencing of individual RNAs reveals a highly complex viral transcriptome including mRNAs encoding new viral fusion proteins derived by read-through transcription.
- Daniel P. Depledge
- , Kalanghad Puthankalam Srinivas
- , Tomohiko Sadaoka
- , Devin Bready
- , Yasuko Mori
- , Dimitris G. Placantonakis
- , Ian Mohr
- & Angus C. Wilson
Nature Communications 10, 754
Research | 14 February 2019 | open

Structural, luminescence and thermometric properties of nanocrystalline YVO₄:Dy³⁺ temperature and concentration series
- I. E. Kolesnikov
- , A. A. Kalinichev
- , M. A. Kurochkin
- , E. V. Golyeva
- , A. S. Terentyeva
- , E. Yu. Kolesnikov
- & E. Lähderanta
Scientific Reports 9, 2043

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News and Views | 07 February 2019

Local magnetic activation of CRISPR

Magnetic nanoparticles complexed with recombinant baculoviral vectors containing the CRISPR–Cas9 machinery enable the local magnetic activation of genome editing.
- Mu-Nung Hsu
- & Yu-Chen Hu
Nature Biomedical Engineering 3, 83-84
Editorial | 05 February 2019

DNA nanostructures fingerprint cellular organelles

DNA nanodevices that can enter cells and quantitatively image the level of chemicals in organelles might find applications in medical diagnostics.

Nature Nanotechnology 14, 99
Research Highlights | 30 January 2019

Tiny intracellular lasers
- Rita Strack
Nature Methods 16, 144
Research Highlights | 30 January 2019

Touch-and-go sensing

A protein nanopore sensor detects transient protein–protein interactions at single-molecule resolution.
- Karin Kuehnel
Nature Methods 16, 145
News and Views | 28 January 2019

Opening the vascular gate

Nanoparticles can affect vascular integrity, promoting cancer cell intravasation and extravasation and metastasis in murine breast cancer models.
- Tsveta S. Malinova
- & Stephan Huveneers
Nature Nanotechnology, 1-2
News and Views | 28 January 2019

Trojan horses for immunotherapy

Responsive polymersomes enhance the action of STING-targeting cyclic dinucleotides in cancer therapy.
- Jeffrey A. Hubbell
- & Melody A. Swartz
Nature Nanotechnology, 1-2

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