Looking retrospectively at the development of humanity, vaccination is an unprecedented
medical landmark that saves lives by harnessing the human immune system. During the …

Amphiphilic self-assembling peptides are widely used in tissue and cell engineering,
antimicrobials, drug-delivery systems and other biomedical fields due to their good …

Chirality is an omnipresent structural feature found in nature. The transfer and amplification
of chirality are widely recognized phenomena. In appropriate solvents, chiral molecules can …

Nanomedicine is a broad field that focuses on the development of nanocarriers to deliver
specific drugs to targeted sites. A synthetic polypeptide is a kind of biomaterial composed of …

Peptide-based subunit vaccines utilise minimal immunogenic components (ie peptides) to
generate highly specific immune responses, without triggering adverse reactions. However …

Colorectal cancer represents 10% of all new cancer cases each year and accounts for
almost 10% of all cancer deaths. According to the WHO, by 2040 there will be a 60 …

The lasting threat of viral pandemics necessitates the development of tailorable first-
response antivirals with specific but adaptive architectures for treatment of novel viral …

Self-assembling peptides and carbon nanomaterials have attracted great interest for their
respective potential to bring innovation in the biomedical field. Combination of these two …

Cancer therapeutic vaccine can induce antigen-specific immune response, which has
shown great potential in cancer immunotherapy. As the key factor of vaccine, antigen plays a …

Synthetic peptides that self-assemble into cross-β fibrils are versatile building blocks for
engineered biomaterials due to their modularity and biocompatibility, but their structural and …