Synthetic micro/nanomotors in drug delivery

Synthetic Microbes As Drug Delivery Systems

Synthetic cell therapy is a field that has broad potential for future applications in human disease treatment. Next generation therapies will consist of engineered bacterial strains capable of diagnosing disease, producing and delivering therapeutics, and controlling their numbers to meet containment and safety concerns. A thorough understanding of the microbial ecology of the human body and th...

Advances in Targeted Drug Delivery

Advances in Targeted Drug Delivery

Synthetic Polymers as Drug-Delivery Vehicles in Medicine

Cancerous diseases present a formidable health problem worldwide. While the chemotherapy of cancer, in conjunction with other treatment modalities, has reached a significant level of maturity, efficacious use of such agents is still restricted by numerous pharmacological deficiencies, such as poor water solubility, short serum circulation lifetimes, and low bioavailability resulting from lack o...

Drug Delivery Using Novel Biological and Synthetic Materials

1Nano Medical Engineering Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 2Department of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 226-8502, Japan 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117602 4Department of B...