Bacterium salvaged from compost could reduce side effects of chemotherapy drugs

Harnessing protein power to deliver medicine: “We’ve built the car, now we need to learn how to drive it”

09-May-2025 - New research led by the University of Sydney has revealed the potential of engineered proteins to more precisely deliver drugs within the body. The proof-of-concept research could potentially pave the way to develop more accurate delivery of cytotoxic drugs. Commonly used in chemotherapy, they ...

A digestive ‘treasure chest’ shows promise for targeted drug treatment in the gut

Significantly lower doses of potent drugs

06-May-2025 - A new approach to drug design can deliver medicine directly to the gut in mice at significantly lower doses than current inflammatory bowel disease treatments. The proof-of-concept study, published today in Science, introduced a mechanism called ‘GlycoCaging’ that releases medicine exclusively to ...

How a milk component could eliminate one of the biggest challenges in treating cancer and other disease

Nebraska startup to use nanoparticles found in milk to target therapeutics to specific cells

20-Jan-2025 - Two Nebraska researchers have launched a startup company aimed at bringing to market an innovative method for delivering therapeutics, gene editing tools, plasmids and more to targeted locations in the human body. Minovacca, recently incorporated by Janos Zempleni and Jiantao Guo, will ...

A Delivery Service for Insulin

It's an old dream in pharmacy: to deliver an active ingredient to the exact place in the body where it is most needed

12-Jul-2024 - Up to three percent of people with diabetes have an allergic reaction to insulin. A team at Forschungszentrum Jülich has now studied a method that could be used to deliver the active substance into the body in a masked form - in the form of tiny nanoparticles. The insulin is only released in the ...

Drug delivery via textile fibre

Precisely controllable and effective in the long term

28-Jun-2024 - Medical products such as ointments or syringes reach their limits when it comes to delivering medication locally – and above all in a controlled manner over a longer period of time. Empa researchers are therefore developing polymer fibers that can deliver active ingredients precisely over the ...

Puffed-up MOFs for improved drug delivery

31-Jan-2024 - The spongelike structure of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) allows these polymers to possibly carry and deliver a range of therapeutic compounds. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Bio Materials treated a chromium-containing MOF with a dose of acetic acid, more concentrated than in ...

Medical "microrobots" could one day treat bladder disease, other human illnesses

“Imagine if microrobots could perform certain tasks in the body, such as non-invasive surgeries”

30-May-2023 - A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds—and may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body. “Imagine if microrobots could perform ...

A promising drug delivery method could replace injections with pills

Bacteria in capsules revolutionize the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

05-Jan-2023 - For chronic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, treatment often involves lifelong injections. Fear of needles, injection-associated infection and pain are responsible for patients skipping doses, which encourages the development of new delivery strategies that combine efficacy with limited ...

A new nanoparticle to act at the heart of cells

A team from UNIGE and LMU developed a transport nanoparticle to make an anti-inflammatory drug much more effective and less toxic

11-Nov-2022 - How can a drug be delivered exactly where it is needed, while limiting the risk of side effects? The use of nanoparticles to encapsulate a drug to protect it and the body until it reaches its point of action is being increasingly studied. However, this requires identifying the right nanoparticle ...

When making a detour is faster

Novel navigation strategies for microscopic swimmers

11-Oct-2022 - Autonomous optimal navigation of microswimmers is in fact possible, as researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) showed. In contrast to the targeted navigation of boats, the motion of swimmers at the microscale is strongly disturbed by fluctuations. The ...