Drug Kinetics – News and Features

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Liver-Directed Drug Delivery System Improves Outcomes for Rare Eye Cancer
A clinical study has found that percutaneous hepatic perfusion using a melphalan hepatic delivery system may help patients with a rare eye cancer that has spread to their liver.

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This Wearable Device Monitors Health by Sensing the Gases Passing Through Your Skin
Researchers have developed the first wearable device for measuring gases emitted from and absorbed by the skin, allowing for a new way to measure skin health, wound healing, hydration levels and more.

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Dual-Action Nanotherapy for Obesity Reprograms Fat Cells
Researchers have developed a new nanoparticle therapy that tackles obesity through two complementary mechanisms: converting energy-storing white fat into calorie-burning beige fat while simultaneously reducing obesity-related inflammation.

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Natural Antioxidant Slows Nerve Cell Damage in Cells From ALS Patients
In lab-grown nerve cells from ALS patients, a natural compound found in certain fruits and vegetables helped the cells produce more energy and eased stress in the protein-processing center of the cell called the endoplasmic reticulum.

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Novel Pain Relief Drug Could Offer Safer Alternative to Opioids
University of Florida scientists have helped identify a novel drug compound that selectively activates pain-altering receptors in the body, offering a potentially safer alternative to conventional pain medications such as opioids.

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Nanoparticles Deliver Anti-Inflammatory Medicine to the Brain
Oregon State University researchers have discovered a way to get anti-inflammatory medicine across the blood-brain barrier, opening the door to potential new therapies for a range of neurodegenerative diseases.

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Bridging the Gap: Creating More Physiologically Relevant Human Cell Models
Three-dimensional models allow researchers to better represent complex tissues and cell-cell interactions. This article explores the cell models currently used by researchers to understand disease and aid drug discovery.

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Could Your Gut Microbiome Make Certain Drugs Less Effective?
New findings on how the gut microbiome influences drug metabolism and effectiveness could open the door to personalized medicines and better treatment outcomes.

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Researchers Scale Up Manufacture of Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
MIT researchers have developed a way to rapidly manufacture specialized nanoparticles that can be used for targeted delivery of cancer drugs and other therapeutics.

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Drug-Delivering DNA Aptamers Target Elusive Leukemia Stem Cells
Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report.
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