All drug delivery articles
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Research‘Self-inflating’ synthetic cells can capture, store and release cargo
Entirely artificial system can use chemical energy to ‘swallow’ payloads like bacteria
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Research
Ingestible COF that delivers insulin could help diabetics duck injections
When blood glucose levels are high, glucose displaces insulin loaded in the framework
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News
Suit of iron turns sperm cells into spermbots
Microrobots that swim under the influence of a magnetic field could one day be used to deliver drugs
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Research
Edible MOF sugar-coats painkiller
When ibuprofen is encapsulated in a sugar-based MOF its effects last twice as long
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Feature
Intracellular delivery
Drugs that can enter cells and take useful payloads with them are maturing, finds Andy Extance
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Research
Droplet printing assembles soft networks
New 3D printing technique vastly scales up droplet networks, opening up new potential applications from soft robotics to drug delivery
