Therapeutics articles within Nature Materials

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• Editorial | 24 April 2020

  Challenging paradigms in tumour drug delivery

  A collective effort from materials scientists, life scientists and clinicians is required to systematically address fundamental questions in the mechanisms of nanoparticle delivery in order to overcome the hurdles in translating nanomedicines for tumour therapy.

• News & Views | 18 May 2015

  Larger is stealthier

  Implanted spheres with a diameter larger than 1.5 mm escape fibrotic responses, thereby extending the survival time of the encapsulated therapeutic cells.

  • Ruud A. Bank

• Commentary | 23 October 2013

  Translating materials design to the clinic

  Many materials-based therapeutic systems have reached the clinic or are in clinical trials. Here we describe materials design principles and the construction of delivery vehicles, as well as their adaptation and evaluation for human use.

  • Jeffrey A. Hubbell
  •  & Robert Langer

• Article | 06 March 2011

  Materials for multifunctional balloon catheters with capabilities in cardiac electrophysiological mapping and ablation therapy

  Inflatable balloon catheters are widely used in many surgical and diagnostic procedures. Such catheters have now been used as a platform for a collection of components including semiconductor devices, sensors and actuators, and these multifunctional catheters probed for their use in cardiac-related applications.

  • Dae-Hyeong Kim
  • , Nanshu Lu
  •  & John A. Rogers