Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA; www.mit.edu) are exploring new ways to create, enhance, and employ electrospun fibers for medical device applications. Using a ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...

Polymer-based gene delivery systems represent a promising class of non-viral vectors, offering significant advantages in safety, structural versatility, biodegradability, and the potential for ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Nanopores are emerging as a powerful platform technology with applications across biosensing, energy harvesting, and other fields. However, most existing solid-state nanopore ...

While natural polymers, including starches and cellulose, are still commonly used in biomedical research, the utilization of synthetic biodegradable polymers in pharmaceutical and tissue-engineering ...

Biomimetic polymers are synthetic materials designed to mimic the structure and function of natural biological polymers such as proteins, DNA, and polysaccharides. These materials leverage the ...

Macromolecular-based gene delivery systems have emerged as viable alternatives to non-viral vectors for gene therapy due to their versatility, biocompatibility, and capacity to efficiently deliver ...