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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…
We are constantly inundated with offers for internet seminars, discussion groups, and short meetings on interesting topics. These are pitched as convenient since you can access them often at any time, even post event, on any device with no flight delays, hotel costs, or loss of several days for…
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Non-ionic surfactant vesicles (NISV), or “niosomes,” are synthetic bilayer vesicles typically formed by the self-assembly of non-ionic surfactants, cholesterol, and the addition of a charged species. NISV exhibit more advantages over liposomes, in terms of cost and stability, and…
Arto Urtti is a professor of biopharmaceutics at the University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland. At the University of Helsinki he has headed the Centre for Drug Research within the Faculty of Pharmacy. He has also been the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical…
Saving Severely Injured Limbs in Military Settings
Figure 1. The graph illustrates the inverse relationship between the environmental chaos and the sophistication of treatment over the ensuing time course after a serious limb injury. This results in the need for a lightweight, easily deployable…
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.…
