Implantable Drug Releasing Microchips Over the past few years wee covered Microchips Biotech, an MIT spin out company that developed an implantable technology to release drugs inside the body in a controlled manner.
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#Tiny Remote Controlled Implant Releases Drugs Into Brain The blood-brain barrier is a picky bouncer, preventing most therapeutic compounds from crossing its barricades.
researchers from Washington Universityin St louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a wireless implant that can be controlled remotely to release drugs right into the brain.
and contains four tiny drug chambers. It also HAS LED a tiny built-in that can deliver light to the implantation site
The drug delivery component is particularly interesting for clinical research, since optogenetics is only practical for researchers studying biological processes.
Yet, in laboratory studies, the combination of the two factors can help identify which compounds are promising neurological drug candidates.
The device reacts to infrared light to open up its drug chambers. Since such frequencies of light are able to penetrate a patient skull
the infrared light source can be used as a simple remote control to open up the drug chambers as necessary s
The patients also received the drug buspirone that acts like serotonin and which in the past has demonstrated considerable benefits for mice with spinal cord injuries.
enabling researchers to test drugs and cosmetics without using animals. The organs-on-chips tand to significantly reduce the need for animal testing by providing a faster
whether new drug compounds will be successful in human clinical trials, the university said in a news release.
and often it because the animal models being used to develop these drugs are not predictive of the human situation,
chemicals and drugs any substance that someone wants to track closely and then detected using an optical readout device.
minimally invasive device for controlling brain cells with drugs and lighta study showed that scientists can wirelessly determine the path a mouse walks with a press of a button.
Typically, scientists who study these circuits have to choose between injecting drugs through bulky metal tubes
and can simultaneously deliver drugs and lights.""We used powerful nanomanufacturing strategies to fabricate an implant that lets us penetrate deep inside the brain with minimal damage,
or cannulas, scientists typically use to inject drugs. When the scientists compared the implant with a typical cannula they found that the implant damaged
The scientists tested the device's drug delivery potential by surgically placing it into the brains of mice.
they made mice walk in circles by injecting a drug that mimics morphine into the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a region that controls motivation and addiction.
when the scientists directed the device to simultaneously inject a drug that blocks neuronal communication.
It has room for up to four drugs and has four microscale inorganic light-emitting diodes. They installed an expandable material at the bottom of the drug reservoirs to control delivery.
When the temperature on an electric heater beneath the reservoir rose then the bottom rapidly expanded
and pushed the drug out into the brain.""We tried at least 30 different prototypes before one finally worked,
Scientists used soft materials to create a brain implant a tenth the width of a human hair that can wirelessly control neurons with lights and drugs.
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including live cells and drugs. Many thousands of times thinner than the average human hair, nanofibers are used by medical researchers to create advanced wound dressings--and for tissue regeneration
drug testing, stem cell therapies and the delivery of drugs directly to the site of infection.
Biomedical researchers at Cedars-Sinai have invented a tiny drug-delivery system that can identify cancer cell types in the brain through"virtual biopsies
"Our nanodrug can be engineered to carry a variety of drugs, proteins and genetic materials to attack tumors on several fronts from within the brain,"said Julia Ljubimova, MD, Phd,
The drug delivery system and its component parts together called a nanobioconjugate or nanodrug, is in an emerging class of molecular drugs designed to slow
or stop cancers by blocking them in multiple ways within the brain. The drug is about 20 to 30 nanometers in size-a fraction of a human hair,
which is 80,000 to 100,000 nanometers wide. Cedars-Sinai scientists began developing the"platform"of the drug delivery system about a decade ago.
The nanodrug can have a variety of chemical and biological"modules"attached.""Each component serves a specialized function,
"Several drugs are quite effective in treating different types of breast cancers, lung cancer, lymphoma and other cancers at their original sites,
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#New Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug Iranian researchers from Isfahan University of Technology produced a highly sensitive and accurate sensor
which can measure a type of blood anticoagulation drug. The sensor was produced through a simple
Protamine is an important drug that is used as an anti-heparin agent to prevent blood coagulation during cardiovascular surgeries.
a simple but very sensitive sensor based on fluorescence spectroscopy was presented by using cadmium telluride quantum dots to quickly measure protamine drug.
it is able to prevent excess consumption of the drug without wasting time. Therefore, the required medical actions can be taken before it gets too late.
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and carry payloads of pharmaceutical drugs to targeted tissues. Unlike other methods of making carbon nanoparticles-which require expensive equipment
We use spectroscopy to confirm the formulation as well as visualize the delivery of the particles and drug molecules."
"The team found that the nanoparticles did not release the drug payload at room temperature, but at body temperature began to release the anticancer drug.
The researchers also determined which topical applications penetrated the skin to a desired depth. In further experiments, the researchers found they could alter the infusion of the particles into melanoma cells by adjusting the polymer coatings.
"This is a versatile platform to carry a multitude of drugs-for melanoma, for other kinds of cancers and for other diseases,
You can load it with two drugs, or three, or four, so you can do multidrug therapy with the same particles.""
and also we can tune them to release the drugs in the presence of the cellular environment.
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#Nanowire implants offer remote-controlled drug delivery Abstract: Remote-controlled Eradication of Astrogliosis in Spinal cord Injury via Electromagnetically-induced Dexamethasone Release from"Smart"Nanowireswen Gao and Richard Borgenswe describe a system to deliver drugs to selected tissues continuously,
if required, for weeks. Drugs can be released remotely inside the small animals using pre-implanted,
novel vertically aligned electromagnetically-sensitive Polypyrrole Nanowires (Ppynws). Approximately 1-2mm 2 Dexamethasone (DEX) doped Ppynws was lifted on a single drop of sterile water by surface tension,
We conclude that the administrations of drugs can be controlled locally and non-invasively, opening the door to many other known therapies,
A team of researchers has created a new implantable drug-delivery system using nanowires that can be controlled wirelessly.
which can be used to control the release of a preloaded drug. The system eliminates tubes
"This tool allows us to apply drugs as needed directly to the site of injury, which could have broad medical applications,
but it is our hope that this could one day be used to deliver drugs directly to spinal cord injuries, ulcerations, deep bone injuries or tumors,
"The team tested the drug-delivery system in mice with compression injuries to their spinal cords
The nanowires can be loaded with a drug and, when the correct electromagnetic field is applied, the nanowires release small amounts of the payload.
The magnitude and wave form of the electromagnetic field must be tuned to obtain the optimum release of the drug,
and the precise mechanisms that release the drug are understood not yet well, she said. The team is investigating the release process.
The electromagnetic field is likely affecting the interaction between the nanomaterial and the drug molecules, Borgens said."
and release drugs, "he said.""It is a reversible process. Once the electromagnetic field is removed, the polymer snaps back to the initial architecture
and retains the remaining drug molecules.""For each different drug the team would need to find the corresponding optimal electromagnetic field for its release,
Gao said. This study builds on previous work by Borgens and Gao. Gao first had to figure out how to grow polypyrrole in a long vertical architecture,
which allows it to hold larger amounts of a drug and extends the potential treatment period.
Functional Drug Delivery Using Electromagnetic field-Responsive Polypyrrole Nanowires, "was published in the journal Langmuir. Other team members involved in the research include John Cirillo,
In addition, the concentration of drug maintained during treatment is known not because it is below the limits of systemic detection,
very small dose of a drug to effectively serve as a big dose right where you need it,
"By the time the drug diffuses from the site out into the rest of the body it is in amounts that are undetectable in the usual tests to monitor the concentration of drugs in the bloodstream."
which the drug delivery device will work. The current system appears to be limited to a depth in tissue of less than 3 centimeters,
#New Biosensor Produced in Iran to Detect Effective Drugs in Cancer Treatment Iranian researchers designed a biosensor with application in assessment of effectiveness of drugs on the stability of the four-strand structure of DNA to prevent the growth
and to create a simple method to investigate their interactions with a number of drugs and compounds.
The studies can be used in the diagnosis, designing and production of anticancer drugs. The research team presented an effective method to detect the four-strand structure of DNA by using biosensors.
Electrochemical studies showed that the designed biosensor creates an appropriate environment for the evaluation of the drug abilities to stabilize the structure.
and to study its interaction with a number of drugs s
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#UK study reveals new method to develop more efficient drugs A new study led by University of Kentucky researchers suggests a new approach to develop highly-potent drugs
which could overcome current shortcomings of low drug efficacy and multi-drug resistance in the treatment of cancer as well as viral and bacterial infections.
thus reducing or possibly even eliminating their resistance to targeted drugs. The study was led by Peixuan Guo
"Efficacy is the key in drug development, "Guo said.""Inhibiting multisubunit targets works similar to the series-circuit Christmas decorating light chains;
multiple drugs are needed not, as well). Using this method, a single subunit targeting to the target RNA or protein subunits that is unique and assenting for the organism,
"One of the vexing problems in the development of drugs is drug resistance, "said Tim Tracy, former Dean of the UK College of Pharmacy and current UK provost."
He is well-known for his pioneering work of constructing RNA nanoparticles as drug carriers. Guo's research team also includes Dan Shu, Farzin Haque, Mario Vieweger, Fengmei Pi, Hui Zhang, Yi Shu, Chi Wang, Peng Zhang, Ashwani
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#Researchers find nanowires have pronounced unusually'anelastic'properties Anelastic materials exhibit gradual full recovery of deformation once a load is removed, leading to efficient dissipation of internal mechanical energy.
#Nanospheres shield chemo drugs, safely release high doses in response to tumor secretions Scientists have designed nanoparticles that release drugs in the presence of a class of proteins that enable cancers to metastasize.
That is, they have engineered a drug delivery system so that the very enzymes that make cancers dangerous could
and deliver a payload of drug, "said Cassandra Callmann, a graduate student in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San diego,
Callmann created tiny spheres packed with the anticancer drug paclitaxel (also known by the trade names Taxol and Onxal) and coated with a peptide shell.
MMPS tear up that shell releasing the drug. The shell fragments form a ragged mesh that holds the drug molecules near the tumor.
The work, led by Nathan Gianneschi a professor of chemistry and biochemisty at UC San diego, builds on his group's earlier sucess using a similar strategy to mark tumors for both diagnosis and precise surgical removal.
To package the drug into the spheres, Callmann had to add chemical handles. As it turns out, a group of atoms essential to the drug molecule's effectiveness,
and also toxicity, made for a good attachment point. That means the drug was inactivated as it flowed through the circulatory system until it reached the tumor.
The protection allowed the researchers to safely give a dose 16 times higher than they could with the formulation now used in cancer clinics,
using a single lower dose of the drug. In mice treated with the nanoparticles coated with peptides that are impervious to MMPS or given saline,
We'll test this in other models-with other classes of drug and in mice with a cancer that mimics metastatic breast cancer, for example."
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and only one therapy has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. While most of these vaccines are created with dendritic cells,
Since the advent of biotechnology, researchers have modified bacteria to produce therapeutic drugs or antibiotics. In this novel study
chemicals and drugs any substance that someone wants to track closely and then detected using an optical readout device e
and to measure changes in those signals as they administered cardio-or neuro-stimulating drugs."
#Mimicking the body on a chip for new drug testing Scientists in an EU-supported project have developed a microfluidic chip that simultaneously analyses the reactions of several human organ tissues
when they come into contact with candidates for new drugs. The ground-breaking device could save millions of euros in drug development costs.
One of the biggest challenges for pharmaceutical companies is reducing the multi-million-euro cost of drug development
and shortening the time to market of medicines in order to fully exploit them before patents run out.
called Body-on-a-Chip (BOC), replacing the 2d cell culture conventionally used for drugs testing with a multi-tissue device that better mimics real-life conditions in the body, by combining several organ
and their effectiveness prior to formal clinical testing. he pharma industry loses a lot of money by keeping drug candidates in the development process for too long,
only to find out at a late stage that the drug is not working, explained BOC coordinator, Dr Jan Lichtenberg,
They want to know the drug toxic liability as soon as possible to eliminate failures from their programme,
Understanding the long-term toxicity of drugs Traditionally the potential harmfulness of drugs has been tested on cells grown on plates in a 2d format.
The drug being tested passes in a nutrient solution across these various compartmentalised rgansand the plate is connected with analytical methods such as mass spectroscopy to analyse the drug metabolites produced.
The BOC allows these drug metabolites to be identified and their effect on other tissues studied.
and more commonly used drugs known to be toxic to the liver such as paracetamol, were passed over these tissues to test the device worked correctly.
as well as screening and translation of new classes of drugs, Singh said g
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By contrast, the team's previous research showed the drug was effective in preventing atherosclerosis
the nano-packaged drug improved physiologic outcomes among animals with heart muscle thickening and pumping dysfunction, the hallmarks of advanced disease."
or break a drug, "says lead investigator Subroto Chatterjee, Ph d.,a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine and a metabolism expert at its Heart and Vascular Institute."
"In our study, the right packaging vastly improved the drug's performance and its ability not merely to prevent disease
stems from fast uptake by various tissues and organs and from the slow clearance of the encapsulated form of the drug.
Next, to observe how quickly the body broke down the nano-wrapped and the original forms of the drug,
The kidneys are the final stop on most drugs'journey inside the body just before they are cleared through urine.
and cholesterol levels as did treated animals with free-floating forms of the drug. However, animals treated with the free-floating form of D-PDMP required 10 times higher doses to achieve GSL
and cholesterol levels observed in mice given the nano-encapsulated form of the drug. When scientists measured the thickness of the animals'aortas--the body's largest vessel responsible for carrying oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body--they observed stark differences among the groups they say.
Mice treated with either version of the drug fared better, but animals that got the encapsulated form of the drug had aortas nearly indistinguishable from the aortas of healthy mice fed a regular diet, according to researchers.
Most strikingly, they reported, D-PDMP treatment improved heart function in mice with advanced forms of atherosclerotic heart disease, marked by heart muscle thickening
and pumping ability improved in animals that received treatment with the encapsulated form of the drug,
However, mice given non-encapsulated drug required 10 times higher doses to achieve similar benefits.
Researchers say their next step is to test how the drug performs in larger mammals.
or proteins that could be targeted by drugs, eventually leading to new medicines to fight cancer r
and osteoporosis. Michael Cima (left) and Robert Langer Now Microchips Biotech will begin co-developing microchips with Teva Pharmaceutical, the worlds largest producer of generic drugs,
Wouldnt this be a great way to make a drug-delivery system? Langer says. He brought this idea to Cima,
and somewhat fantastical, applications beyond drug delivery, including disease diagnostics and jewelry that could emit scents.
Any intense heat during final assembly, with hermetic sealing, could destroy the drugs already loaded into the reservoirs
yet carry the same volume of drugs. This means making the drugs take up more volume than the electrical and other components
he says. Thats the next major challenge e
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for the first time revealing details about how deactivation of a key protein may lead to metastasis. The new findings also are providing evidence for the mechanisms involved in a cell's response to anticancer drugs,
and our previous findings that there might be a mechanical signature to drug resistance. Advanced models allow researchers to convert AFM data into properties about the cells internal scaffolding,
break open, and release the anticancer drug under the acidic conditions of the tumor microenvironment and in tumor-cell endosomes and lysosomes,
although the drug-carrying nanoparticles could bind to the variant CD44 receptors on cancerous mammosphere cells,
This achievement will also contribute to accelerating the research applications of RNAI such as to the development of RNA-based next-generation drugs,
#A new approach to develop highly-potent drugs A new study led by University of Kentucky researchers suggests a new approach to develop highly-potent drugs
which could overcome current shortcomings of low drug efficacy and multi-drug resistance in the treatment of cancer as well as viral and bacterial infections.
Published in Nanomedicine("New approach to develop ultra-high inhibitory drug using the power function of the stoichiometry of the targeted nanomachine or biocomplex),
thus reducing or possibly even eliminating their resistance to targeted drugs. The study was led by Peixuan Guo, director of UK's Nanobiotechnology Center and one of the top nanobiotechnology experts in the world.
"Efficacy is the key in drug development, Guo said.""Inhibiting multisubunit targets works similar to the series-circuit Christmas decorating light chains;
multiple drugs are needed not, as well). Using this method, a single subunit targeting to the target RNA or protein subunits that is unique and assenting for the organism,
or die and thus, no longer able to cause disease. ne of the vexing problems in the development of drugs is drug resistance,
He is well-known for his pioneering work of constructing RNA nanoparticles as drug carriers u
biomedical scientists have developed drugs with nanogold to target malignant tumours. The nanogold attracts light emitted from laser therapies
They initially sought to develop nanoparticles that could be used to deliver drugs to cancer cells. Brandl had synthesized previously polymers that could be cleaved apart by exposure to UV LIGHT.
But he and Bertrand came to question their suitability for drug delivery, since UV LIGHT can be damaging to tissue and cells,
and approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive, and polylactic acid, a biodegradable plastic used in compostable cups and glassware.
The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
"More specifically, it is a drug delivery system (DDS) whereby a nano-level contrast agent (Gd)- DTPA is prepared,
which can reduce the amount of drugs needed d
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including prolonged drug delivery, electronic monitoring, and weight-loss intervention. However, these devices, often created with nondegradable elastic polymers, bear an inherent risk of intestinal obstruction as a result of accidental fracture or migration.
including orally delivered capsules that can release drugs over a number of days, weeks, or potentially months following a single administration.
or extended-release drug-delivery systems that could last for weeks or months after a single administration.
which could release drugs or small devices for monitoring and imaging the GI TRACT, says Edith Mathiowitz,
In particular, the authors say they are excited for the drug-delivery applications of this technology. With further work in adjusting the polymer composition or the design of the system
they say that they could tailor devices to release drugs over a specific timeframe of up to weeks or months at a time.
MIT is negotiating an exclusive license agreement with Lyndra, an early-stage biotechnology company developing novel oral drug-delivery systems, for this and other related technologies.
Special delivery for the gut"),Traverso and Langer wrote that the GI TRACT is an area rife with opportunity for prolonged drug delivery in tackling this global health problem.
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