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ncapsula NanoSciences is a specialty company focused on providing research, development and manufacturing expertise in the production of lipid-based nanoparticles, also known as liposomes, to clients and partners in both the academic and industrial sectors. Encapsula routinely provides custom laboratory-scale liposome preparations of drug encapsulated liposomes such as Clodronate liposomes, liposome-encapsulated anti-tumor drugs and liposome-encapsulated genetic materials to clients in universities and industrial research labs.

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A challenge for nanotechnology in this research is to create a device which can carry a drug payload to it’s target, be monitored throughout it’s journey and deliver, without being attacked and destroyed by the body’s natural defences. This calls for something which possesses stealth design characteristics and a plausible device is described here in this movie.

This is one of a selection of intriguing movies which are available for free download from the EPSRC Nanotechnology Image Library at : http://www.nanoscience.dept.shef.ac.uk/images/

You may also be interested in navigating to the “Soft Machines” site belonging to Professor Richard Jones – who features in this movie – for up-to-date discourse on all things nano. Here’s the link : http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/

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