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Catalina Tudora, Florin Nenciu, Adriana Muscalu, Floarea Burnichi, Florentina Gatea, Oana Alina Boiu-Sicuia and Florentina Israel-Roming
Essential oils (EOs) extracted from various medicinal plants offer a promising alternative to non-selective chemical substances commonly employed in conventional agriculture. Their chemical composition includes several classes of chemical compounds with ...
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Sara Silva, Manuela Machado, Marta Coelho, Eduardo M. Costa and Manuela Pintado
Acorns, frequently left uncollected in the fields, have been a part of the traditional medicine of different cultures. Among the different properties associated with them, their antimicrobial potential is of particular importance. However, this character...
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Sahand Behrangi, Ivo Sedlácek, Ján ?terba, Gabriela Suková, Zsolt Czigány, Vilma Bur?íková, Pavel Soucek, Vjaceslav Sochora, Katalin Balázsi and Petr Va?ina
Pathogenic microbes, such as bacteria and viruses, can spread quickly via contaminated surfaces. Most of these pathogenic microorganisms can survive on surfaces for a long time. Touching these surfaces can lead to the transmission of the microorganisms t...
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Katarzyna Mitura, Joanna Kornacka, Aleksandra Niemiec-Cyganek, Lucyna Pawlus-Lachecka, Katarzyna Mydlowska, Anna Sobczyk-Guzenda, Witold Kaczorowski, Paulina Ossowska, Blazej Balasz and Piotr Wilczek
The main problem with using modified allotrophic forms of carbon with nanodiamond particles in the production of food packaging is establishing the boundary between safety, as it affects the human body, and the adequate and effective action of the substa...
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Tijana Kojic, Bozica Kovacevic, Ankita Sinha, Mitar Simic and Goran M. Stojanovic
Essential oils (EOs) have a long tradition of use in the medical and cosmetic fields based on their versatile properties, including fungicidal, antiparasitic, and bactericidal effects. Nowadays, with the development of industry and electronics, EOs are i...
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Benjamín A. Ayil-Gutiérrez, Karla Cecilia Amaya-Guardia, Arturo A. Alvarado-Segura, Glendy Polanco-Hernández, Miguel Angel Uc-Chuc, Karla Y. Acosta-Viana, Eugenia Guzmán-Marín, Blancka Yesenia Samaniego-Gámez, Wilberth Alfredo Poot-Poot, Gabriel Lizama-Uc and Hernán de Jesús Villanueva-Alonzo
Fruits of species of the genus Bromelia contain compounds with health benefits and potential biotechnological applications. For example, Bromelia karatas fruits contain antioxidants and proteins with bactericidal activity, but studies regarding the activ...
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Youssef Elamine, Hamada Imtara, Maria Graça Miguel, Ofélia Anjos, Letícia M. Estevinho, Manuel Alaiz, Julio Girón-Calle, Javier Vioque, Jesús Martín and Badiâa Lyoussi
The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria has prompted the development of alternative therapies, including the use of natural products with antibacterial properties. The antibacterial properties of Zantaz honey produced in the Moroccan Atlas Mountain...
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Mohd I. Ishak, Xiayi Liu, Joshua Jenkins, Angela H. Nobbs and Bo Su
Protruding nanostructured surfaces have gained increasing interest due to their unique wetting behaviours and more recently their antimicrobial and osteogenic properties. Rapid development in nanofabrication techniques that offer high throughput and vers...
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Joana C. Matos, Marco Laurenti, Veronica Vighetto, Laura C. J. Pereira, João Carlos Waerenborgh, M. Clara Gonçalves and Valentina Cauda
Conventional therapies to treat cancer often exhibit low specificity, reducing the efficiency of the treatment and promoting strong side effects. To overcome these drawbacks, new ways to fight cancer cells have been developed so far focusing on nanosyste...
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Khaled Greish, Abdulelah Abdullah Alqahtani, Abdulla Falah Alotaibi, Ahmed Mohamed Abdulla, Aysha Tariq Bukelly, Fanar Mohammed Alsobyani, Ghazi Hamad Alharbi, Israa Saeed Alkiyumi, Majed Mutlaq Aldawish, Turki Fahad Alshahrani, Valeria Pittalà, Sebastien Taurin and Amer Kamal
Silver Nanoparticles (AgNPs), an epitome of nanotechnology, appear in everyday products such as water filters, printer ink, toothpaste, food packaging and cosmetics mostly due to their bactericidal properties. Given this high level of public exposure, th...
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