Lipid bilayer fusion is a complex process requiring several intermediate steps. Initially, the two bilayers are brought into close contact following removal of intervening water layers and overcoming electrostatic repulsions between opposing bilayer...
The severe course of COVID-19 leads to the long-terming pulmonary diseases, such as bacterial pneumonia and post-COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis. Thus, the essential task of biomedicine is a design of new effective drug formulations, including those for...
A mixed micelle approach is used to produce amphiphilic brush nanoparticles (ABNPs) with cadmium sulfide quantum dot (QD) cores and surface layers of densely grafted (σ = ~1 chain/nm2) and asymmetric (fPS = 0.9) mixed polymer brushes that contain hyd...
Quantum dots (QDs) have attracted great attention as tools for theranostics that combine the possibility of simultaneous biological target visualization and medicine delivery. Here, we address whether core/shell InP/ZnS QDs (InP-QDs) may be an altern...
Periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory disease driven by plaque biofilm, is a leading cause of tooth loss in adults worldwide. Effective treatment requires not only infection and inflammation control but, more critically, functional regeneration of th...