Biomaterials for Cell Targeting :

Cell targeting is an interesting prospect for drug delivery because it offers a potential avenue for drug optimization, as well as opening the possibility of the development of new drug therapies. Biomaterials can be a potential prospect because the properties of the compounds inherent to the biomaterials can be harnessed to be directed by the body to the cell of interest. Polymers, from buckminsterfullerenes to nanofibers, can be altered to contain side-chains that will interact with certain cell surface receptors, and metals can be used in conjunction with organic compounds to give interesting properties to otherwise inert compounds, as in the case of metallofullerenes.

Cell targeting is an interesting prospect for drug delivery because it offers a potential avenue for drug optimization, as well as opening the possibility of the development of new drug therapies. Biomaterials can be a potential prospect because the properties of the compounds inherent to the biomaterials can be harnessed to be directed by the body to the cell of interest. Polymers, from buckminsterfullerenes to nanofibers, can be altered to contain side-chains that will interact with certain cell surface receptors, and metals can be used in conjunction with organic compounds to give interesting properties to otherwise inert compounds, as in the case of metallofullerenes.