This review shows how microneedle-based cosmetic systems bypass the stratum corneum to deliver poorly penetrating actives, ...

BCC Research’s 2024 Advanced Materials Research Review offers a detailed examination of a sector undergoing rapid transformation. The report outlines how innovations in silicones, smart polymers, and ...

In ring-slippage, the number of atoms from a carbon ring involved in a particular bond changes. Multiple ring-slippage in 18-electron metallocenes is rare due to their stability, but as seen in this ...

Conventional drug delivery is fraught with limitations. Targeted delivery is a hot button issue in modern medicine, with developers exploring many avenues for more precise treatments.

Diabetic wounds (DWs) are a severe complication of diabetes, defined as the presence of ulcers or deep tissue damage below the ankle in diabetic patients. DWs entail enormous psychological and ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents a major global health burden due to its high recurrence and mortality rates. For patients with advanced HCC and compromised liver function, Pharmacotherapy ...

Researchers develop a recyclable sulfur-based polymer that enables 4D printing of soft robots with programmable shape changes and magnetic responsiveness. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Materials designed to ...

Previously described engineered living materials (ELMs) have been created with nonresponsive, biocompatible polymers by adding living cells to a precursor solution before polymerization, which cells ...