The development of new and efficient drug delivery systems is of fundamental importance to improve the pharmacological profiles of many classes of therapeutic molecules. Many different types of drug delivery systems are currently available. Within the family of nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes (CNT) have emerged as a new alternative and efficient tool for transporting and translocating therapeut...

As therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease (AD) become available, it will become increasingly important to develop accurate and reliable tools for its early diagnosis. A recent paper by Georganopoulou et al. suggests that nanobiotechnology could help to overcome the limitations with the current diagnostic methods. The paper introduces a nanoparticle-based assay using antibodies that are specific f...

1 Extremophiles Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, ACECR, Tehran 19395-4644, Iran 3 Applied Virology Research Center, Baq...

Parylene is a family of chemically vapour deposited polymer with material properties that are attractive for biomedicine and nanobiotechnology. Chemically inert parylene “peel-off” stencils have been demonstrated for micropatterning biomolecular arrays with high uniformity, precise spatial control down to nanoscale resolution. Such micropatterned surfaces are beneficial in engineering biosensor...

BACKGROUND The nucleobase pairs are characterized by their conformational diversity in the wild. Yet a modern nanobiotechnology utilizes their planar conformations only, developing what can be called a "planar approach". It is well established that the most energetically favorable conformations of the complementary nucleobase pairs are planar and correspond to the classical Watson-Crick nucleob...

543 N anotechnology is being hailed by many as the " next industrial revolution. " 1 A convergence of scientific fields including chemistry, biology , physics, optics, and mechanics, nanoscale science and technology operates at the scale of 1-100 nanome-ters where structures, devices, and systems have novel functions and properties because of their size. 2 One area with tremendous promise for h...

Consumers’ attitude towards hygiene and active lifestyle has created a rapidly increasing market for a wide range of antimicrobial textiles, which in turn has stimulated intensive research and development. As a result, the number of biofunctional textiles with an antimicrobial activity has increased considerably over the last few years. In a near future, biomedical products will perhaps be the ...