Gene therapy as a strategy for disease treatment requires safe and efficient gene delivery
systems that encapsulate nucleic acids and deliver them to effective sites in the cell. Due to …

Amphiphilic self-assembling peptides are widely used in tissue and cell engineering,
antimicrobials, drug-delivery systems and other biomedical fields due to their good …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) can target bacterial membranes and kill bacteria through
membrane structural damage and cytoplasmic leakage. A group of surfactant-like cationic …

Abstract Treatment of microbial‐associated infections continues to be hampered by impaired
antibacterial efficiency and the variability in nanomedicines. Herein, an octapeptide library …

The increasing incidence and rapid spread of bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics
are a serious global threat to public health, highlighting the need to develop new …

Health-care systems that develop rapidly and efficiently may increase the lifespan of
humans. Nevertheless, the older population is more fragile, and is at an increased risk of …

The antimicrobial peptide (AMP) is a class of molecules that are active against a variety of
microorganisms, from bacterial and cancer cells to fungi. Most AMPs are natural products, as …

Velvet antler is a traditional Chinese medicine with various pharmacological values, which is
an important raw material for traditional Chinese medicinal wine. Nevertheless, the chemical …

Belief distribution (BD) is the scheme of representing uncertain and imprecise subjective
assessment in the evidential reasoning methodology. In a multiple attribute decision making …

The influence of hydrophobicity on antibacterial activity versus the effect on the viability of
mammalian cells for peptide/peptoid hybrids was examined for oligomers based on the …