Despite the overwhelming success of vaccines in preventing infectious diseases, there remain numerous globally devastating diseases without fully protective vaccines, particularly …
Women often have limited access to contraception, and barrier methods have low acceptance and a high failure rate, mostly due to incorrect use, which can result in …
The past decade has witnessed the accelerating development of immunotherapies for cancer treatment. Immune checkpoint blockade therapies and chimeric antigen receptor …
Immunotherapy has recently garnered plenty of attention to improve the clinical outcomes in the treatment of various diseases. However, owing to the dynamic nature of the immune …
E Larrañeta, REM Lutton, AD Woolfson… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Transdermal drug delivery offers a number of advantages for the patient, due not only its non- invasive and convenient nature, but also factors such as avoidance of first pass metabolism …
Despite recent advances in melanoma treatment through the use of anti-PD-1 (aPD1) immunotherapy, the efficacy of this method remains to be improved. Here we report an …
H Chang, M Zheng, X Yu, A Than, RZ Seeni… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Skin interstitial fluid (ISF) is an emerging source of biomarkers for disease diagnosis and prognosis. Microneedle (MN) patch has been identified as an ideal platform to extract ISF …
J Yu, Y Zhang, Y Ye, R DiSanto… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
A glucose-responsive “closed-loop” insulin delivery system mimicking the function of pancreatic cells has tremendous potential to improve quality of life and health in diabetics …
The use of microneedles has facilitated the painless localized delivery of drugs across the skin. However, their efficacy has been limited by slow diffusion of molecules and often …