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Novel “Hydrogel” Carriers for Anti-Cancer Drugs Offer New Hope for Cancer Treatment

April 8, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — Cancer therapy in recent times relies on the use of several drugs derived from biological sources including different bacteria and viruses, among others. However, these bio-based drugs...

New Drug Carrier Systems

October 12, 2020
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Newark, DE — University of Delaware Professor Kristi Kiick is leading collaborative research to create new drug delivery systems with the potential to improve treatment for diseases that affect connective...

Secure Nano-Carrier Delivers Medications Directly to Cells

September 28, 2020
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München, Germany — Medications often have unwanted side-effects. One reason is that they reach not only the unhealthy cells for which they are intended, but also reach and have an impact on healthy...

New Smart Drug Delivery System may Help Treatment for Neurological Disorders

September 21, 2020
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New Brunswick, NJ — A Rutgers-led team has created a smart drug delivery system that reduces inflammation in damaged nervous tissues and may help treat spinal cord injuries and other neurological disorders. The...

Biologists Shed Light on How Cells Move Resources

July 26, 2020
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Tallahassee, FL — Florida State University researchers have new insight into the tiny packages that cells use to move molecules, a structure that is key to cellular metabolism, drug delivery and more. Their...

How Cancer Drugs Find Their Targets could Lead to New Toolset for Drug Development

June 18, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — In the watery inside of a cell, complex processes take place in tiny functional compartments called organelles. Energy-producing mitochondria are organelles, as is the frilly golgi...

New Way to Deliver Drugs in MOFs

April 6, 2020
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Warsaw, Poland — Scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) in cooperation with the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology...

Fatty Acid in Triglycerides Proves Effective Platform for Biological Drug Delivery

April 2, 2020
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Houston, TX — We’ve all been warned about the dangers of triglycerides, the fat stored in your blood. But what if that unhealthy fat could effectively transport oral medication to your body and...

Scientists Create Supersensitive Nanomaterials for DNA Diagnostics and Targeted Drug Delivery

February 20, 2020
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Dolgoprudny, Russia — In 1900, German physician Paul Ehrlich came up with the notion of a “magic bullet.” The basic idea is to inject a patient with smart particles capable of finding,...

Microcapsules for Targeted Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells

December 10, 2019
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St Petersburg, Russia — A team of scientists from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) together with their colleagues developed a method of targeted drug delivery to cancer...

Nanoscale ‘Glass’ Bottles could Enable Targeted Drug Delivery

August 16, 2019
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Atlanta, GA — Tiny silica bottles filled with medicine and a special temperature-sensitive material could be used for drug delivery to kill malignant cells only in certain parts of the body, according...

Scientists can Now Manipulate Brain Cells Using Smartphone

August 6, 2019
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Seattle, WA — A team of scientists in Korea and the United States have invented a device that can control neural circuits using a tiny brain implant controlled by a smartphone. Researchers, publishing...

Enhanced Human Blood-Brain Barrier Chip Performs In Vivo-Like Drug and Antibody Transport

June 13, 2019
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Boston, MA — Like airport security barriers that either clear authorized travelers or block unauthorized travelers and their luggage from accessing central operation areas, the blood-brain-barrier...

DNA Folds into Smart Nanocapsule for Drug Delivery

April 29, 2019
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Jyväskylä, Finland — New study of University of Jyvaskyla and Aalto University shows that nanostructures constructed of DNA molecules can be programmed to function as pH-responsive cargo carriers,...

Visualizing Better Cancer Treatment

March 21, 2019
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Brooklyn, NY — A team of researchers from New York University has engineered nanoscale protein micelles capable of both delivering chemotherapeutic drugs and of being tracked by magnetic resonance...

Self-Sterilizing Microneedles Revolutionizing Vaccination and Drug Delivery

March 6, 2019
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Adelaide, Australia — Vaccinations are the world’s frontline defence against infectious diseases yet despite decades of interventions, unsafe injection practices continue to expose billions of...

Researchers Advance Stem Cell Therapy with Biodegradable Scaffold

November 5, 2018
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New Brunswick, Newark — Rutgers scientists have created a tiny, biodegradable scaffold to transplant stem cells and deliver drugs, which may help treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases,...

Anticancer Drugs Delivered by a New Drug Delivery System Reduce Tumour Size

August 9, 2018
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Osaka, Japan (Scicast) — Researchers enhance the efficacy of inhibitors in cancer stem cells therapy for hepatocellular cancer stem cells by technology to develop novel polymer conjugates

Nano-Carrier Designed to Release Drugs into Damaged Cells

July 26, 2018
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Barcelona, Spain — Senescent cells are damaged cells that do not perform their normal roles anymore but that are not dead — hence they are commonly known as zombi cells. These cells interfere...

Discovery will Impact Design of Drug Delivery Systems at the Molecular Level

May 17, 2018
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Houston, TX — Researchers at Houston Methodist and Rice University have made a discovery that will impact the design of not only drug delivery systems, but also the development of newer applications...

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