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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 ...

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New polymers show interaction with cells

A new development in biomedical research could open the door to a variety of new applications

05-Apr-2024 - Scientists* at the University of Bayreuth have found that certain polymers, called polyanions, can penetrate cells in a unique way without causing damage. The study, which was published in the journal "ACS Polymers Au", may help to transport active substances into cells in a more targeted ...

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Riding sound waves in the brain

In future, drugs could be delivered specifically in the brain, which could increase their efficacy and reduce their side effects

08-Dec-2023 - ETH Zurich researchers have shown for the first time that microvehicles can be steered through blood vessels in the brains of mice using ultrasound. They hope that this will eventually lead to treatments capable of delivering drugs with pinpoint precision. Brain tumours, brain haemorrhages and ...

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New insights into the utilization of nanotechnology-based drugs

How nanoparticles get inside cells and release drugs

24-Jan-2023 - Novel drugs, such as vaccines against covid-19, among others, are based on drug transport using nanoparticles. Whether this drug transport is negatively influenced by an accumulation of blood proteins on the nanoparticle’s surface was not clarified for a long time. Scientists at the Max Planck ...

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Breakthrough in Cell Research: New Method for Drug Delivery

Overcoming the natural barrier of the cell wall

25-Mar-2022 - Cells are masters of self-protection. Their membranes let in substances that are vital for them, but block out other substances – including those that could be used to fight diseases. Overcoming this natural barrier is a central concern of cell research. Scientists at Jacobs University Bremen and ...

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On the spot drug delivery with light-controlled organic microswimmers

Science Fiction novelists couldn’t have come up with a crazier plot

03-Feb-2022 - Microrobots streaming through blood or through other fluids in our body which are driven by light, can carry drugs to cancer cells and drop off the medication on the spot. What sounds like a far-fetched fantasy, is however the short summary of a research project published in the journal Science ...

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The protein engineer

Spin-off to further develop protein cages and get them ready to go to market

18-Oct-2021 - Tom Edwardson modified a tiny artificial protein structure so it could be used as a vehicle for RNA molecules and other active substances. He now aims to create a spin-​off to bring his development to market. It’s not always easy to get molecules of an active substance to where they need to be in ...

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Bypassing side effects: Nanocontainers transport active ingredients directly to their target

Fundamentally new possibilities for sepsis therapy

06-Sep-2021 - Using nanoparticles, a Jena research team implemented the targeted transport of an active ingredient into liver tissue. The particles were functionalized with a dye that is specifically absorbed by liver cells, and they carried an inhibitor of the signal protein PI3Kinase γ, which contributes to ...

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Targeted immune stimulation for more effective vaccines

Cutanos, a spin-off from the Max Planck Society, is developing novel vaccines and immunotherapies

06-Jul-2021 - In the future, it could be possible to stimulate the immune system with extremely high efficacy via the skin. Cutanos GmbH, a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, has developed a corresponding method for modulating immune cells in the skin. The LC-TDS technology ...

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A Trojan horse against tuberculosis

New transport route for antibiotics directly into infected cells

14-Jun-2021 - Tuberculosis is still the infectious disease that is responsible for the highest number of deaths worldwide. It is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that infects cells in the lungs. There, the pathogen is hardly accessible to most antibiotics. In addition, resistance to existing ...

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