Polymer Nanoparticles Get Past Snot

New biodegradable and medically-safe nanoparticles get past the lung mucus barrier for drug delivery

It’s springtime, as well as pollen time, so some of us are painfully aware of mucus. It turns out mucus is also the source of grief for scientists who are trying to deliver drugs through the lungs on nanoparticles. The nanoparticles end up trapped in the lung mucus barrier. Now researchers have developed biodegradable, medically [...]