Controlled drug delivery systems encompass a range of engineered carriers—such as microspheres, nanoparticles, liposomes, hydrogels and implantable devices—designed to release therapeutic agents at ...

A team of scientists has developed grain-sized soft robots that can be controlled using magnetic fields for targeted drug delivery, paving the way to possible improved therapies in future. A team of ...

Photopharmacology is an emerging approach that uses light-responsive compounds to control drug activity with high spatial and temporal precision. Traditional therapeutics typically result in unwanted ...

Taking medications on time, in the right dose and for the prescribed duration can be challenging for patients, and failure to do so comes with steep costs, causing 10% of hospitalizations and billions ...

Could a microscopic "geode" of medicine be the future of eye care? A new study shows how crystalline drug delivery could ...

Drug delivery utilizes various methods and/or carriers to transport therapeutic agents to the tissue, organ, cell, or subcellular organ of interest for release and absorption. Some of the primary ...