Metal–organic frameworks for biological applications

I Abánades Lázaro, X Chen, M Ding… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as exciting potential new candidates for
application across nanomedicine, with the first example now in a phase II human clinical …

Where is nano today and where is it headed? A review of nanomedicine and the dilemma of nanotoxicology

C Domingues, A Santos, C Alvarez-Lorenzo… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Worldwide nanotechnology development and application have fueled many scientific
advances, but technophilic expectations and technophobic demands must be …

Silver nanoparticles: Toxicity in model organisms as an overview of its hazard for human health and the environment

GR Tortella, O Rubilar, N Durán, MC Diez… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have attracted remarkable attention due to their powerful
antimicrobial action as well as their particular physicochemical properties. This has led to …

Advanced functional nanostructures based on magnetic iron oxide nanomaterials for water remediation: a review

AG Leonel, AAP Mansur, HS Mansur - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
The fast growth of industrialization combined with the increasing population has led to an
unparalleled demand for providing water in a safe, reliable, and cost-effective way, which …

Environmental impact of nanoparticles' application as an emerging technology: A review

G Martínez, M Merinero, M Pérez-Aranda… - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
The unique properties that nanoparticles exhibit, due to their small size, are the principal
reason for their numerous applications, but at the same time, this might be a massive …

Nanotoxicology and nanosafety: Safety-by-design and testing at a glance

A Zielińska, B Costa, MV Ferreira, D Miguéis… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
This review offers a systematic discussion about nanotoxicology and nanosafety associated
with nanomaterials during manufacture and further biomedical applications. A detailed …

Lipid-based DNA therapeutics: hallmarks of non-viral gene delivery

J Buck, P Grossen, PR Cullis, J Huwyler… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Gene therapy is a promising strategy for the treatment of monogenic disorders. Non-viral
gene delivery systems including lipid-based DNA therapeutics offer the opportunity to …

[HTML][HTML] Iron oxide nanoparticles in biological systems: Antibacterial and toxicology perspective

US Ezealigo, BN Ezealigo, SO Aisida, FI Ezema - JCIS Open, 2021 - Elsevier
There has been an increasing number of studies in magnetic nanoparticles with auspicious
applications in medicine. Among the oxides of magnetic nanoparticles, iron oxide has …

Zebrafish as a successful animal model for screening toxicity of medicinal plants

A Modarresi Chahardehi, H Arsad, V Lim - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is used as an embryonic and larval model to perform in vitro
experiments and developmental toxicity studies. Zebrafish may be used to determine the …

Zebrafish patient avatars in cancer biology and precision cancer therapy

M Fazio, J Ablain, Y Chuan, DM Langenau… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
In precision oncology, two major strategies are being pursued for predicting clinically
relevant tumour behaviours, such as treatment response and emergence of drug resistance …