Eating one's placenta, or placentophagy, isn’t necessarily a new trend, but it’s one that’s gained more notoriety in recent years. While most people transform their placenta into pill-form, there are ...

The encapsulation of single cells in tunable hydrogels should find use in a variety of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications.

Immunotherapy techniques developed in oncology to combat cancerous cells have great potential for fighting viruses. A research team from the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) and the University of ...

Liposomes are synthetic vesicles composed of a lipid bilayer surrounding an aqueous core in which drugs can be contained. These vesicles therefore provide a valuable mechanism for drug delivery in the ...

A company offering a flexible encapsulation technology that can transport cells without specialist cryopreservation is expanding from animal to human health. Likarda, which was spun out of the ...

In order for encapsulation to yield adaptive behavior, several conditions must be met. These conditions could be construed as the five burdens of encapsulation.