To PEGylate or not to PEGylate: Immunological properties of nanomedicine's most popular component, polyethylene glycol and its alternatives

D Shi, D Beasock, A Fessler, J Szebeni… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyethylene glycol or PEG has a long history of use in medicine. Many conventional
formulations utilize PEG as either an active ingredient or an excipient. PEG found its use in …

Bioengineered nanogels for cancer immunotherapy

X Ma, SJ Li, Y Liu, T Zhang, P Xue, Y Kang… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent years have witnessed increasingly rapid advances in nanocarrier-based
biomedicine aimed at improving treatment paradigms for cancer. Nanogels serve as …

Polyphenol‐containing nanoparticles: synthesis, properties, and therapeutic delivery

Y Guo, Q Sun, FG Wu, Y Dai, X Chen - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polyphenols, the phenolic hydroxyl group‐containing organic molecules, are widely found in
natural plants and have shown beneficial effects on human health. Recently, polyphenol …

The dawn of a new era: targeting the “undruggables” with antibody-based therapeutics

L Qian, X Lin, X Gao, RU Khan, JY Liao, S Du… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The high selectivity and affinity of antibodies toward their antigens have made them a highly
valuable tool in disease therapy, diagnosis, and basic research. A plethora of chemical and …

Biomedical polymers: synthesis, properties, and applications

WH Chen, QW Chen, Q Chen, C Cui, S Duan… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of
biomedical fields, such as therapeutic medicine delivery, disease detection and diagnosis …

Nanogels: Synthesis, properties, and recent biomedical applications

QY Duan, YX Zhu, HR Jia, SH Wang, FG Wu - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanogels, also termed hydrogel nanoparticles, have the properties and functions of both
nanomaterials and hydrogels. Till date, a considerable number of nanogels have been …

DNA nanotechnology-enabled drug delivery systems

Q Hu, H Li, L Wang, H Gu, C Fan - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, we have seen rapid advances in applying nanotechnology in
biomedical areas including bioimaging, biodetection, and drug delivery. As an emerging …

Intracellular delivery by membrane disruption: mechanisms, strategies, and concepts

MP Stewart, R Langer, KF Jensen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

Biomineralized metal–organic framework nanoparticles enable intracellular delivery and endo-lysosomal release of native active proteins

TT Chen, JT Yi, YY Zhao, X Chu - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Efficient delivery and endo-lysosomal release of active proteins in living cells remain a
challenge in protein-based theranostics. We report a novel protein delivery platform using …

Nanotechnology: a new opportunity in plant sciences

P Wang, E Lombi, FJ Zhao, PM Kopittke - Trends in plant science, 2016 - cell.com
The agronomic application of nanotechnology in plants (phytonanotechnology) has the
potential to alter conventional plant production systems, allowing for the controlled release …