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Functionalized Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanospheres for drug delivery comments

by Zohreh Jomeh Farsangi
Nanomedicine attempts to enhance the bioavailability of drugs and to reduce their side effects. Creation of functional hollow mesoporous naospheres HMNs could be desirable for biomedical applications since their hollow interior can be used as storage or nanoscale reactor while mesoporous shell providing the controlled uptake release role...
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Ultra-high molecular weight hyperbranched polyglycerol polymers are hemocompatible materials for biomedical applications comments

by Lily Takeuchi
Generally, drug molecules are associated with low solubility in physiological media, rapid metabolism or undesired interaction with proteins present in the blood including enzymes and antibodies...
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3D Bioprining of Microvasculatures comments

by Houman Savoji
There is a significant need to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the potential drug candidates in early-stage of the development pipeline to prevent skyrocketing costs of failure in the late-stages of clinical trials or drugs attrition from the market 1...
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Photochemically-activated Protein Signaling in a Hydrogel for Bile Duct Modeling comments

by Molly Shoichet Christopher Ling
Crucial liver function is enabled via intricate networks of bile ducts that are comprised of cholangiocytes...
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Tunable, biomimetic hydrogels to study breast cancer cell invasion comments

by Molly Shoichet Stephanie Fisher
The spread of cancer throughout the body, or metastasis, is the leading cause of death in cancer patients...
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