{"title":"Rewiring cell identity <i>in vivo</i>: the emerging role of extracellular vesicles.","authors":"Ana I Salazar Puerta, Daniel Gallego-Perez","doi":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2520151","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2520151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74240,"journal":{"name":"Nanomedicine (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"2397-2399"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12490383/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144310876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Storage stability of cowpea mosaic virus cancer drug candidate - a two-year update.","authors":"Andrea Simms, Narek Minasov, Nicole F Steinmetz","doi":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2544522","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2544522","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To evaluate the structural stability and biological activity of cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) after 2 years of storage.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>CPMV was stored at room temperature (RT), 4°C, and -20°C for 2 years. Structural stability was assayed using dynamic light scattering (DLS), size exclusion chromatography (SEC), native and denaturing gel electrophoresis, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Biological activity was assessed by anti-tumor efficacy studies using a B16F10 dermal mouse melanoma model and by a cowpea plant infection challenge.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Storage at -20°C preserved CPMV's structural properties and biological activity. Storage at 4°C caused aggregation, S-protein cleavage, and RNA degradation - samples stored at 4°C had decreased anti-tumor efficacy yet retained plant infectivity. CPMV stored at RT was degraded and lost biological activity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Frozen storage allows CPMV to maintain structural and biological stability for at least 2 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":74240,"journal":{"name":"Nanomedicine (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"2425-2431"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12490393/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144805416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jayanaraian F Martins Andrade, Marcilio Cunha-Filho, Guilherne M Gelfuso, Tais Gratieri
{"title":"Nanotechnology-based topical treatments for androgenic alopecia.","authors":"Jayanaraian F Martins Andrade, Marcilio Cunha-Filho, Guilherne M Gelfuso, Tais Gratieri","doi":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2523732","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2523732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74240,"journal":{"name":"Nanomedicine (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"2483-2485"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12505506/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144509862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lipid cubosome nanoparticles for drug delivery.","authors":"Hayley C Parkin, Pawel Swietach, Helen Townley","doi":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2567841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17435889.2025.2567841","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74240,"journal":{"name":"Nanomedicine (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145202437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Max Shotbolt, John Bryant, Ping Liang, Sakhrat Khizroev
{"title":"Mechanism and applications of magnetoelectric nanoparticles in cancer therapy.","authors":"Max Shotbolt, John Bryant, Ping Liang, Sakhrat Khizroev","doi":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2545746","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2545746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer remains a major clinical challenge, with current therapies often hampered by off-target effects, drug resistance, and incomplete tumor eradication. There is a pressing need for more precise and effective treatment strategies. This review explores the mechanisms and applications of magnetoelectric nanoparticles (MENPs) in cancer therapy. MENPs, typically composed of magnetostrictive and piezoelectric materials in a core-shell structure, generate electric fields in response to magnetic fields, enabling targeted and noninvasive therapeutic actions. The literature search included recent advances in MENP synthesis, optimization of material composition and morphology, and preclinical studies demonstrating their ability to enhance drug delivery, disrupt tumor cell membranes, and induce tumor regression without systemic toxicity. Relevant studies were identified by searching electronic databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The search employed a combination of keywords and phrases such as \"magnetoelectric nanoparticles,\" \"MENPs,\" \"cancer therapy,\" \"nanomedicine,\" \"core-shell nanoparticles,\" \"magnetostrictive,\" \"piezoelectric,\" \"drug delivery,\" \"magnetic field,\" \"nano-electroporation,\" and \"reactive oxygen species..\" MENPs represent a promising option for precision oncology, offering remote control over therapeutic effects and the potential to overcome limitations of conventional treatments. Ongoing research should focus on optimizing MENP design for selectivity and efficacy, as well as advancing their clinical translation for cancer therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":74240,"journal":{"name":"Nanomedicine (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"2469-2481"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12490411/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cristiano Pesce, Giulia Rodella, Agnese Fragassi, Mariangela Garofalo, Stefano Salmaso, Paolo Caliceti, Bernard Gallez, Alessio Malfanti
{"title":"Localized treatment of glioblastoma: a review of clinical strategies and advances in drug delivery systems.","authors":"Cristiano Pesce, Giulia Rodella, Agnese Fragassi, Mariangela Garofalo, Stefano Salmaso, Paolo Caliceti, Bernard Gallez, Alessio Malfanti","doi":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2550239","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2550239","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prognosis for glioblastoma patients remains poor despite recent advances in neurosurgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. One promising treatment strategy lies in the localized delivery of therapeutics through drug delivery systems designed to enhance existing clinical treatments by directly targeting the tumor site or surrounding area. This review explores the latest advancements in localized therapies for glioblastoma, highlighting recent preclinical and clinical studies and examining how we can integrate these approaches - including stereotactic techniques such as convection-enhanced delivery and therapies targeting the post-surgical resection cavity - with drug delivery systems. We describe the features that the drug delivery system should possess for the efficient transport of drugs for both inoperable and resectable glioblastoma local treatment. Finally, this review discusses future directions that may facilitate the clinical translation of localized treatment strategies for glioblastoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":74240,"journal":{"name":"Nanomedicine (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"2571-2599"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12505517/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144981587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Therapeutic opportunities for nanomedicine with hollow one-dimensional silicon nanotubes.","authors":"Nguyen T Le, Jeffery L Coffer","doi":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2545747","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2545747","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While perhaps best known for its role in the semiconductor device industry, silicon at the nanoscale is drawing extensive attention to biotech applications such as drug delivery as a consequence of structural diversity and biomedically useful properties. In this focused review we specifically center on one-dimensional nanotubes of silicon by first discussing fabrication routes and then cover fundamental studies of silicon-based nanotube structures relevant to applications in non-traditional platinate chemotherapy as well as gene therapy. Two types of basic platforms are described: (1) freestanding nanotube bundles as well as (2) patterned arrays. Our emphasis here is with regard to tunability of structure tailored to a given application. We conclude with a discussion of existing challenges and opportunities for the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":74240,"journal":{"name":"Nanomedicine (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"2459-2467"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12490400/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144849977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies to enhance the effects of nanotechnology-mediated photodynamic therapy.","authors":"Yanhan Mo, Xu Liu, Jian You, Lihua Luo","doi":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2550233","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17435889.2025.2550233","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a noninvasive therapeutic approach, particularly effective in tumor treatment. PDT utilizes photosensitizers (PSs) to absorb light at specific wavelengths, converting photon energy into chemical energy and subsequently generating cytotoxic reactive oxygen species (ROS). These ROS trigger cell death through apoptosis, necrosis and autophagy-related pathways. Compared with conventional therapies, PDT exhibits significant advantages, including high selectivity, repeatability, enhanced safety, minimal side effects, low drug resistance, and compatibility with radiotherapy or chemotherapy. However, due to the limited tissue penetration depth of light, PDT demonstrates suboptimal efficacy in treating deep tumors. Additionally, limitations such as poor targeting of photosensitizers and unfavorable factors in the tumor microenvironment greatly restrict PDT's therapeutic efficacy and clinical applicability. To enhance PDT efficacy, various strategies have been explored, among which nanotechnology has emerged as a key research focus. This review summarizes multiple approaches to augmenting nanotechnology-mediated PDT, with emphasis on achieving targeted delivery of photosensitizers (tissue, cell, and organelle-level), improving the performance of photosensitizers and modulating the tumor microenvironment. These insights provide theoretical guidance and practical references for developing novel and efficient PDT nanoplatforms. We conducted the literature search in PubMed, Elsevier ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Wiley and Scopus (from 2004 to 2025).</p>","PeriodicalId":74240,"journal":{"name":"Nanomedicine (London, England)","volume":" ","pages":"2433-2457"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12490413/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144981639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}