Buccal drug delivery systems represent an innovative strategy for the administration of therapeutic agents via the oral mucosa. This approach bypasses the hepatic first‐pass metabolism, thereby ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), motor neuron disease (MND, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, (ALS)), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) ...

Oligonucleotide (oligo) therapies have been in development for decades. Recent advances in molecular design, chemistry, ...

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 ...

When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, the dose of most drugs is calculated based on the patient’s body surface area. This is estimated by plugging the patient’s height and weight into an equation ...

The Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) is a highly selective interface that protects the brain by regulating the entry of nutrients, signaling molecules, and ...

Instead of applying ointment and attaching a bandage, a "smart patch that regulates treatment intensity on its own just by ...

With a $1 million Impact Award from the U.S. Department of Defense, Tianfu Wu, a University of Houston biomedical engineer, is developing a method to send medication directly to the spleen where ...