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Green nanotechnology: a review on green synthesis of silver nanoparticles — an ecofriendly approach Open
Background: Nanotechnology explores a variety of promising approaches in the area of material sciences on a molecular level, and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are of leading interest in the present scenario. This review is a comprehensive c…
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Iron Oxide Nanozyme: A Multifunctional Enzyme Mimetic for Biomedical Applications Open
Iron oxide nanoparticles have been widely used in many important fields due to their excellent nanoscale physical properties, such as magnetism/superparamagnetism. They are usually assumed to be biologically inert in biomedical application…
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Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using the plant extract of Salvia spinosa grown in vitro and their antibacterial activity assessment Open
Researchers use bionanotechnology techniques as eco-friendly and cost-effective routes to fabricate nanoparticles and nanomaterials. The present study confirms the ability of plant extract of Salvia spinosa grown under in vitro condition f…
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Selective cytotoxicity of green synthesized silver nanoparticles against the MCF-7 tumor cell line and their enhanced antioxidant and antimicrobial properties Open
These findings imply that the synthesized nanoparticles using green nanotechnology could be an ideal strategy to combat cancer and infectious diseases.
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Plant-Mediated Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles: Their Characteristic Properties and Therapeutic Applications Open
Interest in "green nanotechnology" in nanoparticle biosynthesis is growing among researchers. Nanotechnologies, due to their physicochemical and biological properties, have applications in diverse fields, including drug delivery, sensors, …
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RETRACTED: Green Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles and Their Potential Applications to Treat Cancer Open
Nanoparticle synthesis using microorganisms and plants by green synthesis technology is biologically safe, cost-effective, and environment-friendly. Plants and microorganisms have established the power to devour and accumulate inorganic me…
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Biological agents for synthesis of nanoparticles and their applications Open
In terms of cost-efficiency, biocompatibility, environmental friendliness, and scalability, green nanoparticle (NP) synthesis is a novel field of nanotechnology that outperforms both physical and chemical approaches. Plants, bacteria, fung…
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Bridging Bio–Nano Science and Cancer Nanomedicine Open
The interface of bio-nano science and cancer medicine is an area experiencing much progress but also beset with controversy. Core concepts of the field-e.g., the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect, tumor targeting and accumul…
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Advancement of the Emerging Field of RNA Nanotechnology Open
The field of RNA nanotechnology has advanced rapidly during the past decade. A variety of programmable RNA nanoparticles with defined shape, size, and stoichiometry have been developed for diverse applications in nanobiotechnology. The ris…
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Recent advances and future prospects of iron oxide nanoparticles in biomedicine and diagnostics Open
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) are considered as chemically inert materials and, therefore, being extensively applied in the areas of imaging, targeting, drug delivery and biosensors. Their unique properties such as lo…
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Cerium oxide nanoparticles: green synthesis and biological applications Open
CeO2 nanoparticles (NPs) have shown promising approaches as therapeutic agents in biology and medical sciences. The physicochemical properties of CeO2-NPs, such as size, agglomeration status in liquid, and surface charge, play important ro…
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Medicinal plants mediated the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their biomedical applications Open
The alarming effect of antibiotic resistance prompted the search for alternative medicine to resolve the microbial resistance conflict. Over the last two decades, scientists have become increasingly interested in metallic nanoparticles to …
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Green Chemistry Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles and Their Potential Anticancer Effects Open
Nanobiotechnology has grown rapidly and become an integral part of modern disease diagnosis and treatment. Biosynthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are a class of eco-friendly, cost-effective and biocompatible agents that have attracted…
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Carbon Dot Nanothermometry: Intracellular Photoluminescence Lifetime Thermal Sensing Open
Nanoscale biocompatible photoluminescence (PL) thermometers that can be used to accurately and reliably monitor intracellular temperatures have many potential applications in biology and medicine. Ideally, such nanothermometers should be f…
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Engineering a Rugged Nanoscaffold To Enhance Plug-and-Display Vaccination Open
Nanoscale organization is crucial to stimulating an immune response. Using self-assembling proteins as multimerization platforms provides a safe and immunogenic system to vaccinate against otherwise weakly immunogenic antigens. Such multim…
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Recent trends and methodologies in gold nanoparticle synthesis – A prospective review on drug delivery aspect Open
The prominent challenges in manufacturing carrier systems for chemical, biological and medical applications are to produce stable, nontoxic and uniform dimension particles by using various macromolecules. In this respect, the emerging fiel…
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Enteric Micromotor Can Selectively Position and Spontaneously Propel in the Gastrointestinal Tract Open
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract, which hosts hundreds of bacteria species, becomes the most exciting organ for the emerging microbiome research. Some of these GI microbes are hostile and cause a variety of diseases. These bacteria colonize…
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Microbe-Mediated Biosynthesis of Nanoparticles: Applications and Future Prospects Open
Nanotechnology is the science of nano-sized particles/structures (~100 nm) having a high surface-to-volume ratio that can modulate the physical, chemical and biological properties of the chemical compositions. In last few decades, nanoscie…
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A Review of Current Research into the Biogenic Synthesis of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles via Marine Algae and Seagrasses Open
Today there is a growing need to develop reliable, sustainable, and ecofriendly protocols for manufacturing a wide range of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles. The biogenic synthesis of nanoparticles via nanobiotechnology based techniques…
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Recent advances in green synthesized nanoparticles: from production to application Open
With the increasing concern over the environmental impact of conventional chemical methods, environmentally friendly processes, commonly known as green chemistry, for the synthesis of nanoparticles have gained growing interest in the field…
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Microbial Nanotechnology: Challenges and Prospects for Green Biocatalytic Synthesis of Nanoscale Materials for Sensoristic and Biomedical Applications Open
Nanomaterials are increasingly being used in new products and devices with a great impact on different fields from sensoristics to biomedicine. Biosynthesis of nanomaterials by microorganisms is recently attracting interest as a new, excit…
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Microbial Nano-Factories: Synthesis and Biomedical Applications Open
In the recent times, nanomaterials have emerged in the field of biology, medicine, electronics, and agriculture due to their immense applications. Owing to their nanoscale sizes, they present large surface/volume ratio, characteristic stru…
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Modeling and simulation of protein–surface interactions: achievements and challenges Open
Understanding protein–inorganic surface interactions is central to the rational design of new tools in biomaterial sciences, nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine. Although a significant amount of experimental research on protein adsorption o…
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Exosomes and Nanoengineering: A Match Made for Precision Therapeutics Open
Targeted exosomal delivery systems for precision nanomedicine attract wide interest across areas of molecular cell biology, pharmaceutical sciences, and nanoengineering. Exosomes are naturally derived 50–150 nm nanovesicles that play impor…
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Nanobiotechnology-based strategies for enhanced crop stress resilience Open
Nanobiotechnology approaches to engineering crops with enhanced stress tolerance may be a safe and sustainable strategy to increase crop yield. Under stress conditions, cellular redox homeostasis is disturbed, resulting in the over-accumul…
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Nanoparticles and DNA – a powerful and growing functional combination in bionanotechnology Open
Functionally integrating DNA and other nucleic acids with nanoparticles in all their different physicochemical forms has produced a rich variety of composite nanomaterials which, in many cases, display unique or augmented properties due to…
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Biogenic Synthesis of Copper and Silver Nanoparticles Using Green Alga <i>Botryococcus braunii</i> and Its Antimicrobial Activity Open
The spread of infectious diseases and the increase in the drug resistance among microbes has forced the researchers to synthesize biologically active nanoparticles. Improvement of the ecofriendly procedure for the synthesis of nanoparticle…
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Fungi-assisted silver nanoparticle synthesis and their applications Open
Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing field because of its wide range of applications in science, nanoscience and biotechnology. Nanobiotechnology deals with nanomaterials synthesised or modified using biotechnology. Fungi are used to syn…
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Nanoparticle cellular internalization is not required for RNA delivery to mature plant leaves Open
Rapidly growing interest in the nanoparticle-mediated delivery of DNA and RNA to plants requires a better understanding of how nanoparticles and their cargoes translocate in plant tissues and into plant cells. However, little is known abou…
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Emerging Strategies in Enhancing Singlet Oxygen Generation of Nano-Photosensitizers Toward Advanced Phototherapy Open
The great promise of photodynamic therapy (PDT) has thrusted the rapid progress of developing highly effective photosensitizers (PS) in killing cancerous cells and bacteria. To mitigate the intrinsic limitations of the classical molecular …