DDS can be based on physical mechanisms like osmosis, diffusion, erosion, dissolution, and electro-transport or biochemical methods like monoclonal antibodies, gene therapy, vector systems, ...

The rise in the use and advancement of biologics and personalized medicine, along with a shift towards home-based treatments, is driving a surge in the production and innovation of drug delivery ...

Minor changes in moisture level can promote lipid molecules to reorganize themselves in biomaterial or biomembranes. This can ...

What is Targeted Drug Delivery? Targeted drug delivery is a cutting-edge approach in nanomedicine that aims to selectively transport therapeutic agents to specific tissues, cells, or even ...

The modification of the liposomal surface by incorporating negatively charged lipids (e.g., by dicetylphosphate [DCP] incorporation), seems to increase the AM affinity to capture anionic liposomes via ...

Scientists at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Nanjing University in China have developed a new drug delivery system that could improve how treatments of cancers and other diseases are ...

Biomedical engineers have developed a new hydrogel-based delivery system that balances the acidic environment in a tumor and greatly enhances the cancer-fighting activity of the chemotherapeutic drug ...

Scientists at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and at Nanjing University have combined a widely used medical polymer with a natural blood protein to develop a new nanoparticle drug delivery ...

For many people, injection needles can be scary – and the larger ones for specialized longer-term medications are far more intimidating. Many long-lasting drugs typically need to be delivered through ...

Figure 1. A typical polysiloxane structure, where R = CH3, phenyl (aromatic carbon ring), F3CCH2CH2, and CHCH2.(click image to enlarge) Drug-delivery systems are some of the most rapidly proliferating ...