Tiny gold particles that act as carriers for lithium can be delivered directly to the brain in the form of a nasal spray.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The threat of resistance to antimicrobial agents has been growing at an alarming rate in recent years and poses a huge public health threat globally according to the WHO. The ...

The researchers demonstrated that intranasal administration of lithium-loaded gold nanoparticles, called LiG-AuNPs, can ...

A nasal gold-nanoparticle “Trojan horse” delivers lithium to mouse brains, modulating GSK-3β, improving memory, and lowering ...

In the form of a 'nasal spray', tiny gold particles act as carriers, delivering a treatment directly to the brain: developed by scientists at the Università Rome campus/Fondazione Policlinico ...

Prof. Liang Haojun from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a new method to escape from metastability for self-assembly in a ...

For DNA-functionalized nanoparticle assembly, a typical far-from-equilibrium system, the entropy-controlled thermal annealing strategy constitutes a traditional and generally adopted way to escape ...

Biosensor research has concentrated on developing a simple sensing method with rapid detection, great sensitivity, and minimum interference. Comprising a photoelectric conversion and an ...

Nanomedicine, where nanotechnology and medicine intersect, is a vastly growing field as researchers are finding more and more nanomaterials and functionalized nanomaterials (typically with organic ...

A new gold nanoparticle nasal spray delivers lithium directly to the brain, targeting Alzheimer's and bipolar disorder while ...