Sentences with phrase «delivering therapeutic agents»

The investigators noted that if the antisense approach works for ALS — by delivering therapeutic agents for neurodegenerative diseases across the highly impermeable blood - brain barrier — it would likely also work in other neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.

Unlike conventional drugs, BNPs can be designed to deliver therapeutic agents specifically to the site of inflammation.

Not exact matches

They also allow investigators to consider or reconsider therapeutic agents that were previously deemed too toxic to deliver through a systemic route.

«This latest finding provides a concise and direct synthesis pathway that, due to the structure of the products delivered, will likely be quite valuable for the discovery and development of therapeutic agents,» says Micalizio, whose work focuses on the design of organic chemical reaction methods and strategies to improve medicine and human health.

Houston Methodist researchers have built disc - shaped nanoparticles to deliver imaging or therapeutic agents to targeted cell types.

Nanotechnology researchers have known for years that RNA, the cousin of DNA, is a promising tool for nanotherapy, in which therapeutic agents can be delivered inside the body via nanoparticles.

Therefore, we hypothesized that NSCs could be used to enhance antibody - based therapies by delivering antibodies to previously inaccessible tumor foci, while minimizing the exposure of normal tissue to the therapeutic agent.

These therapeutic microbes would be delivered into patients as live agents designed to fight disease.