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Drug delivery player Evonik aims for the small intestine with new enteric coatings

Specialty chemicals company Evonik already boasts a suite of drug delivery systems made to target the lower small intestine and colon. Now, it's launching new technology that can deploy drugs to the upper small intestine—an especially tricky target.

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Northwestern scientists cast collapsible nanonet to trap and deliver drugs

Previous attempts at self-assembling drug delivery systems have come up short partly because of timing challenges, complexity and scalability. Now, Northwestern University scientists think they may have a solution.

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Singapore scientists launch startup to hustle Parkinson's drug-loaded 'micro-capsule' to market

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore say they've developed a slow-release microcapsule that could help deliver drugs to Parkinson's patients in a single daily-dose. The capsule passed muster in mice studies, and now the researchers have launched a startup, LiberaTx, to hustle their delivery system through the clinic.

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Early-stage nano-carrier uses miRNA to deploy cancer meds on contact with diseased cells

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, say they’ve developed a synthetic DNA transport system that wraps up cancer drugs and can only be unlocked by a certain RNA sequence found in diseased cells.

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