Custom-made gels suitable for drug delivery
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 14:14
in Health & Medicine
That gels based on proteins from yeasts can be used as drug delivery systems and carriers of antibodies is the most important conclusion from the Helena Teles` doctoral research at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. The custom-made proteins from the yeast Pichia pastoris are an alternative for animal gelatines and collagens used in the medical and pharmaceutical industries.