Advanced Science News celebrates the 71st birthday of Nobel Laureate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. Illustration: Kieran O’Brien This week saw the birthday of Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, internationally renowned winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in…
Category: Therapeutics
Improving Insulin Inhalers for Diabetes
New technologies for inhaled insulin are aimed at improving formulation through enhanced delivery systems. Figure 1. The preparation of porous insulin loaded PLL porous microparticles (PLLA PMs). According to the WHO, the…
Developing Alternatives to Antibiotics – Advanced Science News
Moving away from our dependence on antibiotics through alternative antimicrobial strategies. Figure 1. Proposed antibacterial mechanism of ZnO‐CNP‐TRGL nanocarbons. Bacterial drug resistance is a global emergency. Poor practice and overuse of antibiotics…
Living Machines: A Macrophage–Mg Hybrid Biomotor
Artificial biomotors for in vivo therapeutic applications. Figure 1: SEM image of a MΦ–Mg motor; Mg-micromotor is pseudocolored in green and MΦ is pseudocolored in pink. All biological functions are moderated by…
A Trifecta Therapy for Fighting Cancer
Novel biocompatible nanocapsules for combined nanocatalytic, photothermal, and chemotherapy. The relationship between tumors and their surrounding microenvironment plays an important role in cancer growth and metastasis. In recent years, the tumor microenvironment…