Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...ntrols the release of pain medication. "Different polymers will be available to meet the needs of a particula... that patients requiring more pain control can get polymers that release more drug, and those with very stable requirements for pain medications can get one tha...Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
...dels are variations and improvements on a class of polymers -- chain-like structures of repeating compound ass...ooley has future plans of incorporating degradable polymers into the knedel structure. She and graduate students Jennifer Weinberg and Min Wang have developed ...... pharmaceutical industry Biostable polymers for medical use Multiple chemical ... International symposium on biorelated polymers Polymers in museums Historic textile and paper materials ......scovering and improving non-drug materials such as polymers andcatalysts. "This is the first conference devote...but they also have yielded the means to design new polymers to healdamaged tissues and pinpoint the delivery of fragile peptide drugs. And, in thenear future, c...Encapsulating Insulin-Producing Cells For Possible Diabetes Therapy
...rofessor MarkGrinstaff are developing novel liquid polymers that can be solidified by a quickflash of laser light to seal transplanted insulin-producing cells inside aselectively permeable capsule, thus preventing rejection by diabetics' immunesystems. An interdisciplinary collaboration, involving Duk...MIT Microchip Releases Chemicals On Demand
...Professor Langer, who iswell-known for his work on polymers and implants for drug delivery. "Iimmediately thought of Michael [Cima], and told one of my students to call himASAP about it." (Professor Cima is an expert on forming technologies such asthose used to form the microchip.) Professor Cima, in turn, th...New Type Of Artificial Surfactant Shows Promise In Treating Lung Disease
...aid he plans to continue to study the mechanism of polymers in treatinga variety of lung diseases. The UCSF team has applied for a patent on thepolymer enhancement technique. In addition to Taeusch and Clements, the research co-investigators are Karen W.Lu, MD, and Jon Goerke, MD, of UCSF; Pankaj Sarin, MD, ...Nanomolecular 'smart bombs' seek and destroy cancer cells
...ould help bring us closer to that goal." Synthetic polymers called dendrimers will be used as delivery vehicles totransport anti-cancer drugs and sensing agents into cells, according to Baker. "Dendrimers already are used in many biological applications," he says. "Theyhave been shown to readily enter cells,...Synthetic rubber kills germs on contact
...s. Antimicrobial plastics are composed of polymers mixed with special disinfectants. The plastic slowly releases the disinfectant over time, killing pathogens that come in contact with its surface. When the disinfectant runs out, the plastic permanently looses its disease-fighting ability. Wo..."Radical" Discovery Advances Medicine and Plastics
...e development of polyethylene, Plexiglas and other polymers used to make kitchen counters, telephones, sportin...cals are involved in manufacturing nearly half the polymers we use, from plastic packaging to latex paint. More recently, organic free radicals have played a p...Scientists develop polymers with nitric-oxide releasing particles
...ity of Michigan analytical chemists have developed polymers containing tiny silica particles that release low levels of nitric oxide gas. The U-M polymers are designed to mimic human endothelial cells, which produce nitric oxide to relax blood vessels and...Drugs made from polymers, the stuff of plastics
..., more potent form of aspirin - made from the same polymers that are the stuff of plastics - was described her...ld's largest scientific society. Others have used polymers as carrier molecules to deliver drugs and housed drugs within polymer capsules. But this is believed...Supplements that target fat loss … metals that protect themselves …
...t preservation efforts are backfiring, causing the polymers in old paint to fall apart. Chemistry has come to the rescue and transformed preservation from an unpredictable craft into a science. (POLY 452, 2:35 p.m.) Put a polymer in your tank- A new polymer-based gasoline additive could dramatically decreas...Polymer research could lead to better protective clothing
...ashing, the NC State researchers are imbedding the polymers that make up the fabric itself with various additi...also investigating ways of laminating fabrics with polymers containing cyclodextrin-inclusion compounds. The crystal inclusion compound containing the antibacte...Pasadena chemist wins national award for new materials research
...he strength, toughness and elasticity of synthetic polymers but have them interact with the body in the ways of nature." "Synthetic polymers and natural ones like DNA and protein are similar in that they're long chains, but they have strikin...South Pasadena chemist wins national award for designing new catalysts
...e efficient catalysts, molecules that can assemble polymers or pharmaceuticals. He will receive the 2001 Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods from the American Chemical Society at its 221st national meeting in San Diego. "What we do is design and make catalysts," said Grubbs, who ......plains that when two independently prepared linear polymers are mixed, they "undergo mechanical connections through molecular recognition to form branched or network structures, thus altering their thermal and mechanical properties." Patent 6,100,329 was issued Aug. 8. Self-Assembly also figures in a pate...Clay reduces permeability of biomedical polymer
...cording to a team of Penn State researchers. "The polymers used for various parts of artificial heart devices are somewhat permeable to air and water," says Dr. James Runt, professor of polymer science. "We decided to look at two methods for decreasing permeability a chemical method and a nanocomposites ap...Biomolecule studied for medical uses
...emistry Department researchers are creating unique polymers out of naturally occurring building blocks that do... of the American Chemical Society article. Linear polymers already are being used as surgical sutures that can be degraded and absorbed by the body, their arti......pment of supramolecular polymers, a novel class of polymers that are not made in the traditional way by connecting thousands of monomeric species by covalent bonds, but are formed by the strong but reversible interactions of designed monomeric units based on quadruple hydrogen bonds. These novel materials exh...