The liposome, a closed phospholipid bilayered vesicular system, has received considerable
attention as a pharmaceutical carrier of great potential over the past 30 years. The ability of …

Liposomes are bilayer vesicles which have found use, among other applications, as drug
delivery vehicles. Conventional techniques for liposome preparation and size reduction …

Efficient viral or nonviral delivery of nucleic acids is the key step of genetic nanomedicine.
Both viral and synthetic vectors have been successfully employed for genetic delivery with …

A large German research consortium mainly within the Max Planck Society (“MaxSynBio”)
was formed to investigate living systems from a fundamental perspective. The research …

As extracellular vesicles that play an active role in intercellular communication by
transferring cellular materials to recipient cells, exosomes offer great potential as a natural …

The membrane proteins found in nature control many important cellular functions, including
signal transduction and transmembrane ion transport, and these, in turn, are regulated by …

There is considerable interest in preparing cell‐sized giant unilamellar vesicles from natural
or nonnatural amphiphiles because a giant vesicle membrane resembles the self‐closed …

Liposomes are nanocarriers comprised of lipid bilayers encapsulating an aqueous core. The
ability of liposomes to encapsulate a wide variety of diagnostic and therapeutic agents has …

The cell, as the most fundamental unit of life, is a microcosm of biology in which the
confluence of nearly all aspects of classical physics (mechanics, statistical physics …

Self-assembled nanostructures obtained from natural and synthetic amphiphiles serve as
mimics of biological membranes and enable the delivery of drugs, proteins, genes, and …