New research suggests that silver nanoparticles can leach out of antimicrobial plastic packaging and contaminate solid foods.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Silver nanoparticles used in packaging as antimicrobial agents can seep into dry foods, as demonstrated by testing with polyethylene film wraps containing these ...

A team of research scientists led by US Food and Drug Administration chemist Timothy Duncan has found evidence of silver nanoparticles embedded in packaging used as an antimicrobial agent seeping into ...

While there has been commercial interest in plastic food packaging containing antimicrobial silver nanoparticles, it is not approved in the US or Europe. That caution might be warranted ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method to enhance the precision of cancer treatment using gold nanoparticles tagged with DNA barcodes.

According to a study published in Advanced Functional Materials on November 24th, 2024, a group of researchers led by Assistant Professor Andy Tay from the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the ...

Research scientists at San José State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories said they have detected "unusually high ...

which dominate those approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The researchers' DNA barcoding method could also extend to screen other inorganic nanoparticles such as iron and silica in vivo, ...