Michael Greenwood

Feature Writer

B.Sc. Chemistry, M.Sc. Drug Design and Discovery

Michael graduated from the University of Salford with a PhD in Biochemistry in 2023, and has keen research interests towards nanotechnology and its application to biological systems. Michael has written on a wide range of science communication and news topics within the life sciences and related fields since 2019, and engages extensively with current developments in journal publications.

Articles from Michael

What is Holotomography?

Holotomography is used to image a microscopic label-free three-dimensional object in real time, such as tissues or cells using a laser.

24 Oct 2018

Antimicrobial Properties of Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles are potential broad-spectrum antibiotic agents, and they can overcome evolved resistances to conventional antibiotics. The over-use of regular antibiotics has created ‘superbugs’, bacteria that are resistant to almost all types of antibiotics. Nanoparticles may present a promising solution to this public health hazard.

17 Oct 2018

Silica Nanoparticle Applications in Biomedicine

Silica nanoparticles of between 1 – 100 nm in diameter are cost-effective and simple to produce, with a highly modifiable surface chemistry, shape, and size. They commonly act as a support scaffold or coating for biomolecules or other nanoparticles and potentially make excellent drug delivery platforms due to their highly biocompatible nature and porous structure.

17 Oct 2018

Superparamagnetism in Biomedicine

Superparamagnetism occurs in ferromagnetic nanoparticles, where in the absence of a magnetic field their total average magnetism in any direction (magnetization) appears to be zero. Once in the presence of an external magnetic field they become magnetized, with their magnetic moments aligning with the field.

17 Oct 2018