The past 20 years have witnessed simultaneous multidisciplinary explosions in
experimental techniques for synthesizing new materials, measuring and manipulating …

Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides are short cationic peptides capable of traversing the
plasma membranes of eukaryotic cells. While successful intracellular delivery of many …

Nanoencapsulation Technologies for the Food and Nutraceutical Industries is a
compendium which collects, in an easy and compact way, state-of-the-art details on …

Nanomedicine is defined as the application of nanobiotechnology to medicine. It is a
discipline at the interface of medicine and nanobiotechnology but is not a subspecialty of …

Nanotechnology is considered as one of the promising research fields in recent decades.
This novel technology studies the materials within the nanometer scale plus their …

Partial hydrolysis of the milk protein α-lactalbumin by a protease from Bacillus licheniformis
results in building blocks, which self-assemble into nanometer-sized tubular structures at …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a diverse class of well-studied membrane-permeating
peptides with important functions in innate host defense. In this short review, we provide a …

We demonstrate a method for generating discretely structured protein nanotubes from the
simple ring-shaped building block, homohexameric Hcp1 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

Predicting which attributes consumers are willing to pay extra for has become
straightforward in recent years. The demands for the prime necessity of food of natural …

Charges on biological polymers in physiologically relevant solution conditions are strongly
screened by water and salt solutions containing counter-ions. However, the entropy of these …