Despite decades of R&D effort, almost all biopharmaceuticals remain well beyond the reach of oral formulation technology. Today, these medicines are usually administered in a healthcare setting rather ...

The story of the latest development in drug administration technology — a mouth patch that can deliver peptides and proteins without injection — begins with Chinese fondue. Researcher Zhi Luo, the ...

Drug delivery utilizes various methods and/or carriers to transport therapeutic agents to the tissue, organ, cell, or subcellular organ of interest for release and absorption. Some of the primary ...

Most drugs in the U.S. are taken orally because these oral dosage forms have a significant systemic effect on the body after being absorbed from different surfaces along the gastrointestinal tract ...

Lipid particles have been used in pharmaceutical developments for many years. LNPs are colloidal carriers that are submicron in size and have been developed to encapsulate pharmaceuticals while ...