The development of biodegradable polymers represents a revolution in medicine spanning
over 50 years and leading to significant biotechnological advancements in drug delivery …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) to manage non-melanoma skin cancers has garnered great
attention over the past few years. Hypericin (Hy) is a potent lipid-soluble photosensitiser with …

Introduction: Docetaxel (DTX) is one of the most important chemotherapeutic agents and has
been widely used for treatment of various types of cancers. However, the clinical …

Long blood circulation in vivo remains a challenge to dual‐drug‐loaded nanocarriers for
synergistic chemotherapy. Herein, a novel strategy to prepare lollipop‐like dual‐drug …

Peptide drugs and biologics provide opportunities for treatments of many diseases.
However, due to their poor stability and permeability in the gastrointestinal tract, the oral …

Preparation of sophisticated delivery systems for nanomedicine applications generally
involve multi-step procedures using organic solvents. In this study, we have developed a …

Curcumin is widely considered beneficial to human health, but insolubility and instability
greatly hamper reproducible exploitation of the advantageous traits. Here we report on the …

Cyclodextrin-calixarene giant amphiphiles that can self-assemble into nanospheres or
nanovesicles have the ability to encapsulate the anticancer hydrophobic drugs docetaxel …

Lipid-based carriers such as liposomes represent one of the most advanced classes of drug
delivery systems. Their clinical success relies on their composition, similar to that of the cell …

The aim of this work was to rationally design and characterize nanocapsules (NCs)
composed of an oily core and a polyarginine (PARG) shell, intended for oral peptide …