Tiny biological package gets drug right to the 'heart' of transplant rejection
Thursday, September 3, 2020 - 11:01
in Health & Medicine
For patients who receive a heart transplant in the near future, the old adage, 'Good things come in small packages,' may become words to live by. Researchers have demonstrated in mice that they can easily deliver a promising anti-rejection drug directly to the area surrounding a grafted heart by packaging it within a tiny three-dimensional, protein gel cocoon known as a hydrogel.