The application of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in drug delivery has advanced rapidly
over the past decade, showing huge progress in the development of novel systems …

While medicinal inorganic chemistry has been practised for over 5000 years, it was not until
the late 1800s when Alfred Werner published his ground-breaking research on coordination …

Surgical resection of solid tumors is currently the gold standard and preferred therapeutic
strategy for cancer. Chemotherapy drugs also make a significant contribution by inhibiting …

The understanding of nanomaterials for targeted cancer therapy is of great importance as
physical parameters of nanomaterials have been shown to be strong determinants that can …

RNA interference (RNAi) has broad potential as a therapeutic to reversibly silence any gene.
To achieve the clinical potential of RNAi, delivery materials are required to transport short …

Most cancer drugs are designed to interfere with one or more events in cell proliferation or
survival. As healthy cells may also need to proliferate and avoid apoptosis, anticancer …

Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) combine the specificity of antibodies with the potency of
small molecules to create targeted drugs. Despite the simplicity of this concept, generation of …

Polymeric materials have been used in a range of pharmaceutical and biotechnology
products for more than 40 years. These materials have evolved from their earlier use as …

Liposomes are spherical-enclosed membrane vesicles mainly constructed with lipids. Lipid
nanoparticles are loaded with therapeutics and may not contain an enclosed bilayer. The …

The modification of proteins with non‐protein entities is important for a wealth of
applications, and methods for chemically modifying proteins attract considerable attention …