The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a barrier that separates the blood from the brain tissue and
possesses unique characteristics that make the delivery of drugs to the brain a great …

Peptide–and protein–nanoparticle conjugates have emerged as powerful tools for
biomedical applications, enabling the treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of disease. In …

This review summarizes traditional and recent nonconventional, bioinspired, methods for the
aqueous synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The basic chemistry …

RNA interference (RNAi) targeting lethal genes in insects has great potential for sustainable
crop protection. Compared with traditional double‐stranded (ds) RNA delivery systems …

Semiconducting quantum dots, whose particle sizes are in the nanometer range, have very
unusual properties. The quantum dots have band gaps that depend in a complicated fashion …

Effective therapy for Alzheimer's disease is a major challenge in the pharmaceutical
sciences. There are six FDA approved drugs (eg, donepezil, memantine) that show some …

Carbon nanoparticles upon simple surface passivation exhibit bright photoluminescence.
Reported here is a new finding that these carbon dots are also strongly two-photon …

The plasma membrane as a selectively permeable barrier of living cells is essential to cell
survival and function. In many cases, however, the efficient passage of exogenous bioactive …

Effective therapy lies in achieving a therapeutic amount of drug to the proper site in the body
and then maintaining the desired drug concentration for a sufficient time interval to be …

Antimicrobial cationic peptides are of interest because they can combat multi-drug-resistant
microbes. Most peptides form α-helices or β-sheet-like structures that can insert into and …