Our populations are aging. Some experts predict that 30% of hospital beds will soon be
occupied by osteoporosis patients. Statistics show that 20% of patients suffering from an …

In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an important report entitled
“Innovation/Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical …

Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

Gene transfer methods are promising in the field of gene therapy. Current methods for gene
transfer include three major groups: viral, physical and chemical methods. This review …

Calcium-based (CaXs) biomaterials including calcium phosphates, calcium carbonates,
calcium silicate and calcium fluoride have been widely utilized in the biomedical field owing …

Calcium phosphate is the inorganic mineral of hard tissues such as bone and teeth. Due to
their similarities to the natural bone, calcium phosphates are highly biocompatible and …

Porous inorganic nanostructured materials are widely used nowadays as drug delivery
carriers due to their adventurous features: suitable architecture, large surface area and …

Recent developments in biomineralization have already demonstrated that nanosized
particles play an important role in the formation of hard tissues of animals. Namely, the basic …

Calcium phosphate nanoparticles have a high biocompatibility and biodegradability due to
their chemical similarity to human hard tissue, for example, bone and teeth. They can be …

Synucleinopathies like Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are
characterized by α-synuclein aggregates within neurons (Lewy bodies) and their processes …