Plastics have enormous impacts to every aspect of daily life including technology, medicine
and treatments, and domestic appliances. Most of the used plastics are thrown away by …

On account of environmental concerns, the fate and adverse effects of plastics have
attracted considerable interest in the past few years. Recent studies have indicated the …

Gene-based therapy is the intentional modulation of gene expression in specific cells to treat
pathological conditions. This modulation is accomplished by introducing exogenous nucleic …

Theranostics is a concept of integrating imaging and therapy into a single platform for use in
the next generation of personalized medicine to meet the challenges in modern health …

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 …

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) conjugation is a rapidly evolving strategy to solve hurdles in
therapeutic delivery and is being used as an add-on tool to the traditional drug delivery …

Nanoparticles are an essential component in the emerging field of nanomedical imaging
and therapy. When deployed in vivo, these materials are typically protected from the immune …

Nanoparticles (NPs) offer diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities not available with small
molecules or microscale tools. As the field of molecular imaging has emerged from the …

Despite being engineered to avoid renal clearance, many cationic polymer (polycation)-
based siRNA nanoparticles that are used for systemic delivery are rapidly eliminated from …

Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are among the most promising therapeutic platforms in
many life-threatening diseases. Owing to the significant advances in siRNA design, many …