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

An LMU research team led by Professor Olivia M. Merkel, Chair of Drug Delivery at LMU, has developed a new delivery system ...

Gene delivery is, arguably, the biggest bottleneck in gene therapy. Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are the historical mainstay, but they are expensive to manufacture and have payload limits and ...

A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a biodegradable polymer system to treat rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune and inflammatory disease, by working in ...

A research group comprising Shun Nanjo, a graduate student at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Arifin, a researcher at JSR Corporation, Professor Teruaki Hayakawa from ...

The voltage response of a conjugated polymer system is not fully understood. Jonathan Rivnay, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; Ruiheng Wu, postdoctoral ...

Every three minutes, a food reaction sends someone in the U.S. to the emergency room. At present, no cure exists for food allergies, but one UChicago professor is trying to change that. Spearheading ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new system for nerve repair based on light-activated polymers rather than surgical stitches. The flexible polymer system was developed by the medical ...

Hybrid paper-polymer material systems are becoming mainstream solutions for lightweight structural components. Their growth reflects engineering trust, regulatory alignment, and manufacturability at ...

Polymers are a popular material for everyday objects and have many industrial applications, with their use increasing rapidly. However, for new polymers to be developed and commercialized is often a ...