Many medically minded researchers are in hot pursuit of designs
that will allow drug-carrying nanoparticles to navigate tissues
and the interiors of cells, but University of Michigan engineers
have discovered that these particles have another hurdle to
overcome: escaping the bloodstream. According to their work, the
immune system can't get rid of some of the promising drug
carriers quickly. According to recent research at Rice
University, bovine serum albumin (BSA) forms a protein “...
Nearly all drugs taken orally spike in concentration, decay
quickly, and are only at... Duke University biomedical engineers
have grown three-dimensional human heart muscle that acts...
It’s a familiar scenario—a patient receives a medical implant
and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve or device,
causing complications to an already compromised system.
Expensive medical devices and surgeries often are thwarted by
the body’s natural response to attack something in the tissue
that appears foreign. Now, University of