Gastroretentive drug delivery systems (GRDDS) represent a sophisticated approach to oral medication by extending the retention time of dosage forms in the stomach. This increased residence time can ...

With a $1 million Impact Award from the U.S. Department of Defense, Tianfu Wu, a University of Houston biomedical engineer, is developing a method to send medication directly to the spleen where ...

Scientists at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Nanjing University in China have developed a new drug delivery system that could improve how treatments of cancers and other diseases are ...

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 ...

Learn how chemists have invented a new technology to solve the shortage of GLP-1 medications by improving drug delivery. Shortages of GLP-1 medications, like Ozempic and Wegovy, are common occurrences ...

An Australian research team has achieved an advanced materials breakthrough that opens the door to a new generation of nanodrug applications. From drug delivery, to diagnostics, to gene editing and ...

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 ...

For many people, injection needles can be scary – and the larger ones for specialized longer-term medications are far more intimidating. Many long-lasting drugs typically need to be delivered through ...

SAN DIEGO, March 23, 2025 — Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are peptide-based therapeutics for treating diabetes and for weight loss. Unfortunately, shortages and high costs have ...

Targeted drug delivery has long been a cornerstone goal of modern medicine—sending therapies exactly where they’re needed while sparing healthy tissues. Yet creating treatments that can decide when ...

Pandit Deendayal Energy University scientists have engineered a new drug delivery method using maleimide-coated liposomes to combat multi-drug resistant bacteria. This technique enhances antibiotic ...