News tagged with delivery technique


Aerosolized nanoparticles show promise for delivering antibiotic treatment

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Aerosol delivery of antibiotics via nanoparticles may provide a means to improve drug delivery and increase patient compliance, thus reducing the severity of individual illnesses, the spread of epidemics, and possibly even ...





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Skin flaps deliver cancer-fighting therapy, ASPS study reveals

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 08, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Using gene therapy, plastic surgeons have delivered cancer fighting proteins through skin flaps placed on cancerous tumors on rats with a 79 percent reduction in tumor volume, according to a study in the May issue of Plastic ...


Physicist develops natural motor technique

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 21, 2007 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Physicists from the University of Georgia have developed a new way to create "natural motors" for tiny machines.


Microneedles Could Replace Syringe

Microneedles Could Replace Syringe

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3

The common needle phobia and painful injections could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a revolutionary new drug-delivery technique developed by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology, US. The ...


Tiny magnets offer breakthrough in gene therapy for cancer

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 1

A revolutionary cancer treatment using microscopic magnets to enable 'armed' human cells to target tumours has been developed by researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Research ...


Gold nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery

Gold nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion.


Researchers advance therapy for Parkinson's, other diseases

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By miniaturizing a device that monitors the delivery of healthy cells, researchers at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing a powerful instrument for physicians to use in treating ...


World's first delivery of intra-arterial Avastin directly into brain tumor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Neurosurgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first intra-arterial cerebral infusion of Avastin (bevacizumab) directly into a patient's malignant brain tumor. This novel ...


Team develops safe, effective RNA interference technique

Team develops safe, effective RNA interference technique

Biology /

created Apr 28, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A team of researchers from MIT and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has developed safe and effective methods to perform RNA interference, a therapy that holds great promise for treating a variety of diseases including ...


Caesarean section -- no consensus on best technique

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Despite the routine delivery of babies by caesarean section, there is no consensus among medical practitioners on which is the best operating method to use. In a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library, resear ...


Veterinary oncologists advance cancer drugs for humans and pets

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As more pet owners are choosing to treat their pets' cancers through advanced medicine, veterinarians gain valuable knowledge about the progression and treatment of cancers in humans through pet trials of new drugs. To help ...



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