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Innovate UK funding for new precision cancer treatment technology

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Sixfold Bioscience in partnership with Medicines Discovery Catapult, has been given the green light, through the award of an Innovate UK Smart Grant to test a pioneering system designed to deliver drugs directly to cancerous cells, without impacting the healthy cells around it.

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Liposome: A Novel Drug Delivery System

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Pharmaceutical and Industrial Applications of Liposomes Liposomes are frequently used for the delivery of drugs, genes, vaccines, and diagnostic products. The figure highlights several parameters considered during liposome characterization.

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Intracellular Drug Delivery – A Potential Treatment for Lethal Orphan Diseases

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Below are the highlights that we feel would be helpful to understand about the intracellular drug delivery / intracellular non-viral drug delivery approach. WHAT IS INTRACELLULAR DRUG DELIVERY? The main issues with viral delivery approach are the immunogenicity and cytotoxicity.

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New Frontiers in Cancer Therapies: Focus on Transcription Factors, GTPases, Phosphatases and GPCRs, 2018-2030

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However, certain biological targets have long eluded drug development efforts. Scientific literature suggests that the RAS gene is mutated across about 30% of cancer types. One such target is Ras family, which has been identified to play a critical role in oncogenesis.

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The Power of Lipids: Enhancing Drug Delivery with Nanoparticles

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Gene Therapies: LNPs have the ability to effectively deliver nucleic acids, including small interfering RNA (siRNA), messenger RNA (mRNA), and plasmid DNA to the target cells. In addition, these can be modified with ligands in order to improve the specificity and selectivity of the gene therapy and reduce off-target effects.

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Rheumatoid arthritis treated with implanted cells that release drug

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. “Doctors often treat patients who have rheumatoid arthritis with injections or infusions of anti-inflammatory biologic drugs, but those drugs can cause significant side effects when delivered long enough and at high enough doses to have beneficial effects,” said senior investigator Farshid Guilak, PhD, the Mildred B.

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Pharmaceutical Polymers / Medical Polymers -Current Scenario and Future Potential

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Driven by the increasing need for safe and efficient medical devices and drug delivery systems, the pharmaceutical polymers / medical grade polymers domain is advancing significantly. There has been a rise in the development of polymers for biopharma with improved biocompatibility, biodegradability and functionality.