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Biodegradable Polymers Deliver Pharmaceuticals to Diseased Cells

Posted on August 21, 2008

Scientists from Georgia Tech, Emory University, Rochester University, and Schering-Plough Biopharma have collaborated on creating particles made out of derivatives of the polyketal polymers (hydrophobic microparticles containing biodegradable ketal linkages in their backbone), that have the capacity to deliver drugs to specific diseased tissue in the body. Polyketals have long been thought to be useful drug nanocarriers. The polyketal microparticles we developed are simply a vehicle to get the drugs inside the body to the diseased area as quickly as possible, said Niren Murthy, assistant...

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