Targeted drug delivery is a powerful and promising area of medicine. Therapies that pinpoint the exact areas of the body where they're needed—and nowhere they're not—can reduce the medicine dosage and ...

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with ...

Recent advances in drug discovery research have led to the development of numerous drug candidate compounds with high ...

Targeted drug delivery has long been a cornerstone goal of modern medicine—sending therapies exactly where they’re needed while sparing healthy tissues. Yet creating treatments that can decide when ...

Modern cancer therapies have resulted in higher survival rates for victims of this dread disease, in many cases. However, their generic mode of delivery and action is associated with greater adverse ...

Nanogels are increasingly used in drug delivery systems for their ability to encapsulate a wide range of therapeutic agents and release them in a controlled, targeted manner. Recent developments have ...

Fabricated with a gel side for carrying drugs and a magnetic side for steering, these microrobots can navigate complex biological environments like intestines. Microrobots formed in droplets could ...

Targeted protein degradation (TPD) therapy is a promising new class of targeted treatments. Based on a cell’s natural mechanism for eliminating diseased proteins, this therapy can combat hard-to-treat ...

Researchers created proteins that fold into logic-based shapes, letting therapies target disease sites precisely and cut off-target effects. (Nanowerk News) Targeted drug delivery is a powerful and ...