A team led by Neil King, a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is now exploring a new ...

Chronic inflammation of the liver is a slow, silent disease that can ultimately lead to scarring, cirrhosis, and even liver ...

Across the world, more than 1.5 billion people suffer from chronic liver disease. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Nanomedicine uses ultra-small particles to deliver drugs directly to the tissues and cells that need them, improving ...

UD researchers study how protein coatings influence nanoparticles' ability to avoid immune clearance and reach their ...

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But ...

Across the world, more than 1.5 billion people suffer from chronic liver disease. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that it kills more than 52,000 people a year in the United ...

The challenge with curing the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is that it tends to hide dormant in cells, evading the ...

A nasal gold-nanoparticle “Trojan horse” delivers lithium to mouse brains, modulating GSK-3β, improving memory, and lowering ...

By tapping the nanoparticles, the researchers were able to repair a dysfunction in the "blood brain barrier," which protects the brain from toxins in the body's blood system, to allow the plaque to be ...

A new gold nanoparticle nasal spray delivers lithium directly to the brain, targeting Alzheimer's and bipolar disorder while ...