Carbohydrates are the most abundant and one of the most important biomacromolecules in
Nature. Except for energy-related compounds, carbohydrates can be roughly divided into …

As a natural polysaccharide, dextran and its derivatives have gained great attention in the
development of delivery systems for pharmaceutical and medical applications. In recent …

Hydrophilic polymers are a major class of polymers in polymer science. They are found in
broad range of applications from superabsorbers to drug-delivery. In recent years, a plethora …

In recent decades, self-confinement effects arising from the folding of individual synthetic
polymer chains to single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs) have been exploited for the …

Single-chain polymer nanoparticles (SCNPs) are a well-defined and uniquely sized class of
polymer nanoparticles. The advances in polymer science over the past decades have …

During the past two decades, the clinical use of biopharmaceutical products has markedly
increased because of their obvious advantages over conventional small-molecule drug …

Data published in 2020 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the
World Health Organization show that breast cancer (BC) has become the most common …

Vaccination is one of the greatest achievements in biomedical research preventing death
and morbidity in many infectious diseases through the induction of pathogen‐specific …

Carbohydrates are abundantly expressed on the surface of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic
cells, often as post translational modifications of proteins. Glycoproteins are recognized by …

Nature has unparalleled control over the conformation and dynamics of its folded
macromolecular structures. Nature's ability to arrange amino acids into a precise spatial …