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There is a great opportunity in Southeast Asia to grow the network of groups active in the controlled release field. The CoRE-Net group of A*Star focusses on bringing together companies and scientific professionals with a common interest in controlled release and encapsulation technologies by…
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Grapholita molesta insects (GM) inhabit fruit trees (e.g., peach, apple, and pear), and their larvae destroy fruit.1 Although various pesticides have been used for prevention of GM, the larvae cannot be prevented from entering fruit.1 Sex-pheromone-mediated mating disruption (MD) has…
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Electrospinning is an electrostatic fiber fabrication technique producing homogeneous fibers in the nanometer range. The process involves dropping a polymer solution in an electric field in such a way that the electric forces overcome the polymer solution surface tension and the drop…
It is still a pending issue for many “smart” nanocarriers endowed with a controlled and site-specific drug release mechanism to overcome the therapeutic efficacy and minimize therapy-associated side effects obtained by their older brothers, the golden benchmarked nonsensitive formulations.…
The annual CRS Nordic Local Chapter event of 2017 was a one-day symposium on “Drug Transporters,” which was organized backto-back with the symposium “30-years of Drug Delivery Research – In Honour of Professor Arto Urtti’s 60th Birthday.” The Nordic Chapter event gathered 60 participants and took…
The CRS India Local Chapter announces a call for abstracts for the 16th international conference on “Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems,” which will take place February 23–24, 2018, in Mumbai, India. The venue is Hotel Lalit, Sahar Airport Road, Andheri (East…
