{"id":339368,"date":"2025-06-04T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=339368"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:22:47","slug":"nanozyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nanozyme\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanozyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) have developed an artificial metal-based nanozyme that can potentially be used to clamp down on abnormal blood clotting caused by conditions like pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). <strong>Nanozyme<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>About Nanozyme<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_339369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339369\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-339369\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-IISc.png?resize=372%2C290&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-IISc.png?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-IISc.png?resize=1024%2C798&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-IISc.png?resize=768%2C599&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-IISc.png?w=1135&amp;ssl=1 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-339369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; IISc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A nanozyme is a <strong>nanomaterial<\/strong> that exhibits <strong>enzyme-like catalytic activity<\/strong>, meaning it can mimic the functions of natural enzymes in facilitating biochemical reactions.\n<ul>\n<li>They mimic the <strong>activity of natural antioxidant enzymes<\/strong>, which <strong>scavenge reactive oxidative molecules.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nanozymes can be <strong>made<\/strong> from a variety of <strong>materials<\/strong>, including <strong>metals, metal oxides, carbon-based materials, and metal-organic frameworks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>These nanozymes developed by IISc. can be very efficiently used to <strong>clamp down on abnormal blood clotting caused by conditions like pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Working:<\/strong> These nanozymes work by controlling<strong> Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)<\/strong> <strong>levels<\/strong>, thereby preventing the over-activation of platelets that leads to excess clot formation or thrombosis.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)<\/strong> levels refer to the amount of oxygen-containing molecules in a cell that are highly reactive and can damage biological molecules.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Material used:<\/strong> The spherical-shaped <strong>vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) nanozymes<\/strong> were the most efficient.\n<ul>\n<li>These materials mimic a <strong>natural antioxidant enzyme<\/strong> called <strong>glutathione peroxidase<\/strong> to reduce oxidative stress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applications<\/strong>&#8211; Nanozymes have a large range of applications for diagnostic medicine, targeted therapy, and biosensing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) have developed an artificial metal-based nanozyme that can potentially be used to clamp down on abnormal blood clotting caused by conditions like pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). Nanozyme About Nanozyme A nanozyme is a nanomaterial that exhibits enzyme-like catalytic activity, meaning it can mimic the functions of natural&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nanozyme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nanozyme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":339369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-339368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-IISc.png?fit=1135%2C885&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}