Biocompatible capsules deliver drugs

Researchers at the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an innovative strategy of mixing lipids and nanoparticles to produce new drug and agricultural materials, and delivery vehicles. .

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an innovative strategy of mixing lipids and nanoparticles to produce new drug and agricultural materials, and delivery vehicles.

 

"This is a new way to make nano-size capsules of a biologically friendly material," said Steve Granick, a professor of materials science and engineering, chemistry and physics. "The hollow, deformable and biofunctional capsules could be used in drug delivery, colloidal-based biosensors and enzyme-catalysed reactions."

 

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