drug delivery

Attacking Tumors With Salmonella ‘Warheads’

The bacterium that causes dreaded food poisoning can be engineered to target tumors and inhibit their growth, while also delivering drugs.

Opening A Gateway To The Brain

Insights into the structure of the blood-brain barrier protein Mfsd2a could lead to better drugs for brain tumors.

Vibrating, Magnetic Microbubbles Deliver The Drugs

These tiny drug- and iron oxide-coated gas bubbles can penetrate deep into cancer cells, with a little help from magnets and ultrasound.

Next Generation Nebulizer Could Replace Jabs

A nebulizer that uses sound waves to generate a fine mist of drug could change the way drugs are delivered to the lungs.

A Charged Partnership: Unlikely Partners In The Antibiotics Arms Race

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to global health. By combining their expertise, a cancer drug delivery researcher and a technology giant might just have come up with a solution to prevent the slide into a post-antibiotic era.

Taking Nano Big: A Conversation With Subbu Venkatraman

We speak to Professor Subbu Venkatraman, founding director of the NTU-Northwestern Nanomedicine Institute, on how he is leading an international effort to ramp up nanomedical research in Singapore.

Tiny Technologies, Incredible Impact

From lightweight sports equipment to potable water, here are ten ways that nanotechnology is changing our lives.

The Era of Nanorobots: How Technology Is Reinventing Medicine

Biomedical engineers have a new futuristic platform to take cancer head on.

Smaller Nanoparticles Deliver Cancer Drugs To The Lymph Nodes

The polymeric micelle drug delivery system could be useful for the development of non-surgical treatments for cancers that have spread to the lymph nodes.