Healthcare

This issue profiles development of a triboelectric nanogenerator, biomechanical energy harvesting with piezoelectric nanogenerators, and chemotherapy enabled by nanoparticles treats cancer stem-like cells.

This issue profiles a high-priced hepatitis c drug that results in development of generic products, a rapid antigen test for Ebola, and focused antiviral clinical programs for infectious diseases.

This issue profiles an imaging app for ultrasound, a compatible leads for MRI systems, and innovative contrast agents for preclinical imaging.

This issue profiles a drug for oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy treatment that receives orphan drug designation; non-viral CFTR-based gene therapy for cystic fibrosis patients, a breast cancer diagnostic test in Europe.

This issue profiles a novel microchip-enabled drug-delivery system, a technology for reducing diesel engine emissions, and head-up displays that get transformed into consumer wearables.

This issue profiles miotoxicity and drug screening assays through micropatterning techniques, leveraging glycobioengineering for cancer research, and pharmacological chaperones to enhance enzyme replacement therapies.

This issue profiles a biomarker for detection of mental disorders in women, a novel gene-control molecule that targets chronic wounds, and gene therapy for treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

This issue profiles a novel genetic approach to target pancreatic cancer tumor and regrowth, a study to identity genetic receptor changes related to HIV treatment, a study to identity gene types responsible for varying sleep patterns.

With the growing need for better therapeutics, and the current patent cliff that is underway, therapies such as monoclonal antibodies, recombinant protein therapeutics and even vaccines for a whole host of indications are in high demand. Conventionally expression systems were utilized to aid in the development and production of these therapeutics...