Significantly
more microspheres accumulated in tumours grown in Tie2PEKO mice 24 h after sphere injection (Fig. 6f — h).
Not exact matches
The pores give the
microspheres a high surface area, which allows capacitors made of the material to store
more charge.
Haro Hartounian, a specialist in drug - delivery technologies at DepoTech in San Diego, predicts that
microspheres will prove
more potent than traditional booster shots and — by eliminating that second visit to the doctor — could lower the cost.
For their atoms, the team used polystyrene
microspheres — either 540 or 850 nanometres across,
more than 2000 times bigger than real atoms — coated in a substance that binds to DNA.
A new study in the American Journal of Physiology — Heart and Circulatory Physiology reports a
more practical approach called
microsphere therapy that can be kept on - hand and administered
more readily than stem cells.