The field of cancer immunotherapy has achieved remarkable progress, introducing strategies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors and adoptive cell therapies ...

Scientists engaged in precision medicine research focus intensely on target-based drug development. In doing so, they help improve the safety and efficacy profiles of future therapies by reducing ...

Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems utilise the unique physicochemical properties of nanoscale carriers to enhance therapeutic efficacy whilst minimising systemic side effects. These formulations ...

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, ...

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common malignancies in women worldwide. Unlike breast cancer, ovarian cancer lacks early diagnostic markers and does not show noticeable symptoms until cancer ...

Dr. Yu Zheng, together with her graduate student Qin Qin (from the Department of Biotherapy, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University), developed ...

A couple of University of Nebraska professors have launched a startup company with the goal of bringing to market an innovative method for delivering drugs and other therapeutics to targeted locations ...

A research team led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has developed a novel drug delivery system for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The researchers have engineered exosomes, extracellular vesicles ...

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 ...

Drug discovery has long relied on two key strategies: target-based and phenotypic screening. Recombinant technologies and genomics opened the door to modern target-based drug discovery (TBDD), ...