Polymeric delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids

R Kumar, CF Santa Chalarca, MR Bockman… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The advent of genome editing has transformed the therapeutic landscape for several
debilitating diseases, and the clinical outlook for gene therapeutics has never been more …

Advances in nanomaterial vaccine strategies to address infectious diseases impacting global health

CN Fries, EJ Curvino, JL Chen, SR Permar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the overwhelming success of vaccines in preventing infectious diseases, there
remain numerous globally devastating diseases without fully protective vaccines, particularly …

Rapidly separable microneedle patch for the sustained release of a contraceptive

W Li, RN Terry, J Tang, MR Feng… - Nature Biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Biomaterial-assisted targeted modulation of immune cells in cancer treatment

H Wang, DJ Mooney - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed the accelerating development of immunotherapies for
cancer treatment. Immune checkpoint blockade therapies and chimeric antigen receptor …

Microneedles for painless transdermal immunotherapeutic applications

H Amani, MA Shahbazi, C D'Amico, F Fontana… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Microneedle arrays as transdermal and intradermal drug delivery systems: Materials science, manufacture and commercial development

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 …

Enhanced cancer immunotherapy by microneedle patch-assisted delivery of anti-PD1 antibody

C Wang, Y Ye, GM Hochu, H Sadeghifar, Z Gu - Nano letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
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 …

A swellable microneedle patch to rapidly extract skin interstitial fluid for timely metabolic analysis

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 …

Microneedle-array patches loaded with hypoxia-sensitive vesicles provide fast glucose-responsive insulin delivery

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 …

Built‐in active microneedle patch with enhanced autonomous drug delivery

MA Lopez‐Ramirez, F Soto, C Wang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …