Alginate is one of the natural polymers that are often used in drug‐and protein‐delivery
systems. The use of alginate can provide several advantages including ease of preparation …

Treating many chronic diseases will require a tight, minute-to-minute regulation of
therapeutic molecules that is currently not achievable with most pharmaceutical therapies …

The development of cell microencapsulation systems began several decades ago. However,
today few systems have been tested in clinical trials. For this reason, in the last years …

Nowadays, food and nutrition have a greater impact in people's concerns, with the
awareness that nutrition have a direct impact in health and wellbeing. Probiotics have an …

Cell microencapsulation technology is likely to have an increasingly important role in new
approaches rather than the classical and pioneering organ replacement. Apart from …

In this review, we aim at establishing a relationship between the fundamentals of the
microfluidics technologies used in the Pharmacy field, and the achievements accomplished …

Smart nano-micro platforms have been extensively applied for diverse biomedical
applications, mostly focusing on cancer therapy. In comparison with conventional …

Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell transplantation is being explored as a feasible
approach for treating age-related macular degeneration. The low aggregation ability of RPE …

Since the conception of cell microencapsulation, many scientists bet on this biotechnology
as they saw in it a promising alternative to protect transplanted cells from host …

In this research, microencapsulation of the probiotics Lactobacillus casei ATCC 39392 and
Bifidobacterium adolescentis ATCC 15703 was performed using calcium alginate, wheat …