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Open AccessBiomedical applications of graphene-based nanomaterials: recent progress, challenges, and prospects in highly sensitive biosensors
Graphene-based nanomaterials (graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, graphene quantum dots, graphene-based nanocomposites, etc.) are emerging as an extremely important class of nanomaterials primari...
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Screening Carbon Nano Materials for Preventing Amyloid Protein Aggregation by Adopting a Facile Method
The soluble-to-toxic transformation of intrinsically disordered amyloidogenic proteins such as amyloid beta (Aβ), α-synuclein, mutant Huntingtin Protein (mHTT) and islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) among others...
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Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a case study on the concept of quantum number, electronic configuration and review for teaching material
This article describes a descriptive-qualitative method for analyzing and reviewing several textbooks for high school as samples commonly used by teachers and students in their teaching–learning to reveal poss...
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Fred W. McLafferty: The Man Who Drove a Different Kind of Flying Machine
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Engineered Nanomaterials as Drug Delivery Systems and Biomedicines
Design and development of engineered nanomaterials is a highly fascinating area of research that has intersected almost every sector of science and technology in the modern era. Especially in biomedical resear...
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Natural Therapeutic Strategies for Modulating Oxidative Stress in Cancer
The overproduction of free radicals provoked by oxidative stress is known to cause many diseases, including cancer, the latter being a significant health problem worldwide. Radical species like oxygen and nitr...
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The Multifaceted Function of Nanoparticles in Modulating Oxidative Stress in Cancer Therapy
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) serve as an important cellular secondary messenger which has functional roles in cell proliferation and homeostasis at low level. However, an excessive amount of ROS and their cel...
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Supplement to the Special Issue on Protein Folding and Harold A. Scheraga
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The Formation of Native Disulfide Bonds: Treading a Fine Line in Protein Folding
The folding of proteins that contain disulfide bonds is termed oxidative protein folding. It involves a chemical reaction resulting in the formation of disulfide bonds and a physical conformational folding rea...
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Organic Carbon Dots for Mitigating Neurodegenerative Diseases
With the increase in the lifespan of individuals across the world, the frequency of neurodegenerative diseases is also increasing. The most common type of neurodegenerative diseases is Alzheimer’s disease (AD)...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
The Multifaceted Function of Nanoparticles in Modulating Oxidative Stress in Cancer Therapy
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) serve as an important cellular secondary messenger which has functional roles in cell proliferation and homeostasis at low level. However, an excessive amount of ROS and their cel...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Natural Therapeutic Strategies for Modulating Oxidative Stress in Cancer
The overproduction of free radicals provoked by oxidative stress is known to cause many diseases, including cancer, the latter being a significant health problem worldwide. Radical species like oxygen and nitr...
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Comparison of Binding Site of Remdesivir and Its Metabolites with NSP12-NSP7-NSP8, and NSP3 of SARS CoV-2 Virus and Alternative Potential Drugs for COVID-19 Treatment
Remdesivir was approved by the U.S.A. Food and Drug administration for emergency use to interfere with the replication of SARS CoV-2 virus (the agent that causes COVID-19) in adults and children hospitalized w...
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Protein Folding and Harold A. Scherega
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Harold A. Scheraga [1921–2020]: Eminent Researcher, Mentor, Teacher, Friend
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Identification of Structure-Stabilizing Interactions in Enzymes: A Novel Mechanism to Impact Enzyme Activity
Cruzain, a cysteine protease in the cathepsin family, is pivotal to the life-cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent in Chagas disease. Current inhibitors of cruzain suffer from drawbacks involving gast...
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Introduction
Nanoparticles—materials between 1 and 100 nm—have unique physical properties and applications. Too small for sedimentation, they are held in suspension by the Brownian motion of the water molecules. Their larg...
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Conclusion
In this brief, we discussed and highlighted the use of nanoparticles and nano-biomaterials in the emergent area of nano-theranostics. Our intention was to write this brief to serve as a broad introduction to t...
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Anisotropic Nano-Systems
Nanoscale materials formed by logical or random ensembles of molecules have been an integral part of many cultures for centuries, although arguably for thousands of years. Early notable works with nanomaterial...
