Researchers have turned to drug delivery nanoparticles to maximize the anti-cancer STING of a molecule, pointing to a possible way to unlock the potential of a pathway that has caught the eye of the ...

Melatonin and zinc oxide nanoparticles may protect male reproductive health during chemotherapy, study suggests.

Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (LMU) say they have succeeded in using an in vitro screening technique to develop a fully biodegradable ...

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, ...

Polymeric nanoparticles are nanoscale particles composed of natural or synthetic polymers, typically ranging in size from 10 to 1000 nanometers. These nanoparticles have gained significant attention ...

Just as a business needs an effective and reliable service to deliver its goods to customers, medications need an effective delivery system to get them to the specific area of the body where they can ...

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 ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed modular nanoparticles that can be easily customized to target different biological entities such as tumors, viruses or toxins. The ...

Drug-delivering nanoparticles might help treat osteoarthritis. In mice with signs of the condition, a single injection of the particles relieved pain for months. Previous research indicates a drug ...

Pharmaceutical scientists and biologists are teaming up to make the next generation of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for drug delivery. Combining structural biology with cutting edge pharmaceutical ...

Dr. Yu Zheng, together with her graduate student Qin Qin (from the Department of Biotherapy, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University), developed ...

Researchers have developed drug-loaded nanoparticles that selectively target the cells responsible for causing damaging inflammation following a spinal cord injury. Given to mice soon after an injury, ...