Research
NanoMedicine
Mission
- Construct stable, non-toxic, targeted nanomaterials-based therapeutic agents that can be used to treat any disease with a genetic basis
- Develop nanosystems capable of the rapid, inexpensive, accurate, sensitive, and selective detection of biomolecular targets at the point-of-care and in unconventional environments (e.g., inside cells)
- Replace conventionally used diagnostic agents and therapeutic probes with nanotechnology-based ones that have the potential to revolutionize the medical field
Pay-off
- Improve patient care and save lives by enabling earlier diagnoses of and more effective treatments for society’s most debilitating and devastating diseases
Spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) are constructs typically composed of a nanoparticle core and densely packed and highly oriented nucleic acid shell. This structure has unique architectural-dependent properties that set it apart from all other forms of nucleic acids.
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