Five different morphologies of MOFs were generated on the microrobot surface under solvent action, and MOF-based microrobots obtained by screening had good biocompatibility, high drug loading capacity targeted delivery capability.

The increasing cost of drug development together with a significant drop in the number of new drug approvals raises the need for innovative approaches for target identification and efficacy prediction. Here, we take advantage of our increasing understanding of the network-based origins of diseases to introduce a drug-disease proximity measure that quantifies the interplay between drugs targets ...

Drug discovery in its early history used to be conducted mainly in a target-agnostic fashion, focusing on qualitative readouts from a living system -cells, tissue, or organisms -and asking the question, ‘Did this entity affect the phenotype?’. With the rise of molecular biology in the early 1980s and an ever more powerful genomics toolkit from the 1990s, there was a marked shift away from pheno...

Cell lines have been used for drug discovery as useful models of cancers; however, they do not recapitulate cancers faithfully, particularly from the viewpoints of microenvironmental independence. Patient-derived xenografts (PDX) are established by the transfer of primary tumor cells directly from patients into immunodeficient mice and can provide primary-like tumor cells of the amount needed a...

Adaptive Profiling (APL) and other biochip companies aim to harness the power of microsystems technology together with advances in chemistry and molecular biology, to become service and technology providers to organizations involved in pharmaceutical research and development. By supplying a unique range of decision-making tools that aid an earlier identification of qualified drug candidates for...

Urine drug screening can enhance workplace safety, monitor medication compliance, and detect drug abuse. Ordering and interpreting these tests requires an understanding of testing modalities, detection times for specific drugs, and common explanations for false-positive and false-negative results. Employment screening, federal regulations, unusual patient behavior, and risk patterns may prompt ...