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 ...

West Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE:WST) announced that it reached an agreement to sell on-body drug delivery technology to ...

As part of the first-in-human trial, participants received more than 15 times the standard dose of the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin every 21 days for up to one year. “Usually, a patient can only ...

A team of researchers has created an innovative drug delivery system with outstanding potential to improve drug development. A team of University of Melbourne researchers from the Caruso ...

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 ...

Guar gum, a naturally occurring polysaccharide derived from the seeds of Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, has garnered significant attention as a versatile material for drug delivery applications. Its ...

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, ...

As medications advance, so do devices used for drug delivery. Pharmaceutical engineers and designers are focused on how to make drug delivery systems easier, less painful, more sustainable, and better ...

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 ...

How do you send drugs to specific parts of the body so they do their job and avoid causing side effects elsewhere? According to researchers at Stanford University, the answer is a combination of ...