Bram Bussin, Marshall G. G. MacDuff, Wayne Ngo, Jamie L. Y. Wu, Zachary P. Lin, Adrian Granda Farias, Benjamin Stordy, Zahra Sepahi, Sara Ahmed, Jason Moffat, Warren C. W. Chan
{"title":"Discovering nanoparticle corona ligands for liver macrophage capture","authors":"Bram Bussin, Marshall G. G. MacDuff, Wayne Ngo, Jamie L. Y. Wu, Zachary P. Lin, Adrian Granda Farias, Benjamin Stordy, Zahra Sepahi, Sara Ahmed, Jason Moffat, Warren C. W. Chan","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01903-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01903-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Liver macrophages capture circulating nanoparticles and reduce their delivery to target organs. Serum proteins adsorb to the nanoparticle surface after administration. However, the adsorbed serum proteins and their cognate cell receptors for removing nanoparticles from the bloodstream have not been linked. Here we use a multi-omics strategy to identify the adsorbed serum proteins binding to specific liver macrophage receptors. We discovered six absorbed serum proteins that bind to two liver macrophage receptors. Nanoparticle physicochemical properties can affect the degree of the six serum proteins adsorbing to the surface, the probability of binding to cell receptors and whether the liver removes the nanoparticle from circulation. Identifying the six adsorbed proteins allowed us to engineer decoy nanoparticles that prime the liver to take up fewer therapeutic nanoparticles, enabling more nanoparticles for targeting extrahepatic tissues. Elucidating the molecular interactions governing the nanoparticle journey in vivo will enable us to control nanoparticle delivery to diseased tissues.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"232 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143979743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of multi-drug cancer nanomedicine","authors":"Karina Benderski, Twan Lammers, Alexandros Marios Sofias","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01932-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01932-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multi-drug nanomedicine is gaining momentum for co-delivering more than one drug to the same site at the same time. Our analysis of 273 pre-clinical tumour growth inhibition studies shows that multi-drug nanotherapy outperforms single-drug therapy, multi-drug combination therapy, and single-drug nanotherapy by 43, 29 and 30%, respectively. Combination nanotherapy also results in the best overall survival rates, with 56% of studies demonstrating complete or partial survival, versus 20–37% for control regimens. Within the multi-drug nanomedicine groups, we analysed the effect of (co-)administration schedule and strategy, passive versus active targeting, nanocarrier material and the type of therapeutic agent. Most importantly, it was found that co-encapsulating two different drugs in the same nanoformulation reduces tumour growth by a further 19% compared with the combination of two individually encapsulated nanomedicines. We finally show that the benefit of multi-drug nanotherapy is consistently observed across different cancer types, in sensitive and resistant tumours, and in xenograft and allograft models. Altogether, this meta-analysis substantiates the value of multi-drug nanomedicine as a potent strategy to improve cancer therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143979744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yakun Yi, Peng Song, Ziyi Li, Jinzhou Ju, Guixiang Sun, Qianyuan Ren, Ke Zhou, Lei Liu, Hai-Chen Wu
{"title":"Nanopore-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for cancer biomarker detection","authors":"Yakun Yi, Peng Song, Ziyi Li, Jinzhou Ju, Guixiang Sun, Qianyuan Ren, Ke Zhou, Lei Liu, Hai-Chen Wu","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01918-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01918-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has been widely used in cancer diagnostics due to its specificity, sensitivity and high throughput. However, conventional ELISA is semiquantitative and has an insufficiently low detection limit for applications requiring ultrahigh sensitivity. In this study, we developed an α-hemolysin-nanopore-based ELISA for detecting cancer biomarkers. After forming the immuno-sandwich complex, peptide probes carrying enzymatic cleavage sites are introduced, where they interact with enzymes conjugated to the detection antibodies within the complex. These probes generate distinct current signatures when translocated through the nanopore after enzymatic cleavage, enabling precise biomarker quantification. This approach offers a low detection limit of up to 0.03 fg ml<sup>–1</sup> and the simultaneous detection of six biomarkers, including antigen and antibody biomarkers in blood samples. Overall, the nanopore-based ELISA demonstrates high sensitivity and multiplexing capability, making it suitable for next-generation diagnostic and point-of-care testing applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143945953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cyrielle Fougeroux, Sven Hendrik Hagen, Louise Goksøyr, Kara-Lee Aves, Anna Kathrine Okholm, Candice Morin, Abhijeet Girish Lokras, Saahil Sandeep Baghel, Camilla Foged, Marga van de Vegte-Bolmer, Geert-Jan van Gemert, Matthijs M. Jore, Elena Ethel Vidal-Calvo, Tobias Gustavsson, Ali Salanti, Thor Grundtvig Theander, Morten Agertoug Nielsen, Willem Adriaan de Jongh, Adam Frederik Sander Bertelsen
{"title":"A modular mRNA vaccine platform encoding antigen-presenting capsid virus-like particles enhances the immunogenicity of the malaria antigen Pfs25","authors":"Cyrielle Fougeroux, Sven Hendrik Hagen, Louise Goksøyr, Kara-Lee Aves, Anna Kathrine Okholm, Candice Morin, Abhijeet Girish Lokras, Saahil Sandeep Baghel, Camilla Foged, Marga van de Vegte-Bolmer, Geert-Jan van Gemert, Matthijs M. Jore, Elena Ethel Vidal-Calvo, Tobias Gustavsson, Ali Salanti, Thor Grundtvig Theander, Morten Agertoug Nielsen, Willem Adriaan de Jongh, Adam Frederik Sander Bertelsen","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01889-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01889-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the potential of mRNA vaccines in fighting pandemics, owing to their rapid development, strong immunogenicity and adaptability. However, a drawback is their dose-limiting reactogenicity and inability to generate durable humoral immunity. Here we introduce a modular nucleotide vaccine platform combining the advantages of genetic and capsid virus-like-particle-based vaccines. This platform allows for the display of various antigens on different capsid virus-like particles, improving the magnitude, quality and longevity of the vaccine-induced immune responses. We applied this technology to enhance the immunogenicity of the Pfs25 antigen. Immunization with lipid-nanoparticle-formulated mRNA encoding Pfs25 capsid virus-like particles resulted in higher and potentially more durable anti-Pfs25 antibody responses, along with enhanced functional activity, compared with an mRNA vaccine encoding soluble Pfs25. By improving both humoral and cellular immune responses, this approach may reduce the dose and number of administrations required for effective protection. As a result, it can improve the feasibility of both DNA- and mRNA-based vaccines targeting pandemic and endemic infectious diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143945955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t — PEG challenges in nanomedicine","authors":"Marina A. Dobrovolskaia","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01925-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01925-0","url":null,"abstract":"Mass vaccination using polyethylene glycol (PEG)-containing nanoparticles during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in cases of adverse reactions, bringing to the fore the issue of PEG immunogenicity and reinforcing the view that this polymer should be substituted with other stealth-inducing molecules. Before considering alternatives, however, it is crucial to carry out more detailed analyses of the anti-PEG antibodies, to standardize the procedures for their detection and to better contextualize their generation within different nanoformulations, routes of administration, indication, safety and efficacy. The resulting studies could guide both the future use of PEGylated nanomedicines and the synthesis of the next generation of PEG or its alternatives.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balancing stealth and targeting to improve nanomedicine efficacy","authors":"Yi Ju, Stephen John Kent","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01926-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01926-z","url":null,"abstract":"Developing nanomedicines that avoid fast blood clearance while retaining targeting specificity in vivo is inherently challenging. Leveraging the individual biomolecular corona, optimizing the nature of targeting ligands and exploring alternative stealth formulations might be the key to engineering tailored nanomedicine approaches.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paddle-like self-stirring nanoreactors with multi-chambered mesoporous branches for enhanced dual-dynamic cascade reactions","authors":"Yuzhu Ma, Peiting Guo, Bing Ma, Hongjin Zhang, Jinying Li, Linlin Duan, Wei Zhang, Shenghong Guo, Aixia Wang, Xin Pu, Jia Jia, Yan Ai, You-Liang Zhu, Zhongyuan Lu, Xiaomin Li, Jian Liu, Dongyuan Zhao","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01915-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01915-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Developing artificial nanomaterial systems that can convert external stimuli to achieve nanoscale self-sustainable motion (for example, self-rotation), and simultaneously integrate and deploy the spatial localization of multiple active sites to unravel the intraparticle diffusion patterns of molecules, is of great importance for green synthetic chemistry. Here we show a paddle-like self-stirring mesoporous silica nanoreactor system with separated chambers and controllable proximity of active sites. The nanoreactors are designed by encapsulating magnetic Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> (~20 nm) in the first chamber, and meantime, Au and Pd nanocrystals are spatially isolated in different domains. Such a nanoreactor generates nanoscale rotation under the rotating magnetic fields and exhibits an order of magnitude activity enhancement in the cascade synthesis of 5,6-dimethylphenanthridinium (96.4% selectivity) compared with conventional macro-stirring. Meanwhile, we quantitatively uncovered the rotation-induced enhancement in sequential and reverse transfer of reactive intermediates, consequently revealing the relevance of self-rotation and proximity effects in controlling the catalytic performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"137 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Battery research needs more reliable, representative and reproducible synchrotron characterizations","authors":"Jakub Drnec, Sandrine Lyonnard","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01921-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01921-4","url":null,"abstract":"Synchrotron techniques can probe battery materials and devices at unprecedented scales of time and space, providing in-depth mechanistic understanding. However, the lack of standardization in synchrotron measurements and analyses can lead to biased interpretations of data and results. Here, we propose possible strategies to address the reliability, representativeness and reproducibility issues of synchrotron characterizations in battery research.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneities across electrode|polymer electrolyte interfaces contribute to battery failure","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01886-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01886-4","url":null,"abstract":"The interfacial dynamics in high-potential lithium batteries with polymer electrolytes have been challenging to characterize. Now, X-ray synchrotron analyses reveal that the rearrangement of ion-conductive phases in polymer electrolytes at electrode|electrolyte interfaces disrupts ionically conductive paths and contributes to battery performance degradation.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143920950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhihua Lin, Preetam Guha Ray, Jinbo Huang, Peter Buchmann, Martin Fussenegger
{"title":"Electromagnetic wireless remote control of mammalian transgene expression","authors":"Zhihua Lin, Preetam Guha Ray, Jinbo Huang, Peter Buchmann, Martin Fussenegger","doi":"10.1038/s41565-025-01929-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01929-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Communication between wireless field receivers and biological sensors remains a key constraint in the development of wireless electronic devices for minimally invasive medical monitoring and biomedical applications involving gene and cell therapies. Here we describe a nanoparticle–cell interface that enables electromagnetic programming of wireless expression regulation (EMPOWER) of transgenes via the generation of cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) at a biosafe level. Multiferroic nanoparticles coated with chitosan to improve biocompatibility generate ROS in the cytoplasm of cells in response to a low-frequency (1-kHz) magnetic field. Overexpressed ROS-responsive KEAP1/NRF2 biosensors detect the generated ROS which is rewired to synthetic ROS-responsive promoters to drive transgene expression. In a proof-of-concept study, subcutaneously implanted alginate-microencapsulated cells stably expressing an EMPOWER-controlled insulin expression system normalized blood-glucose levels in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes in response to a weak magnetic field.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143910253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}