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Combining ion pumps and click chemistry enables precise drug release in the body

  • April 13, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Combining ion pumps and click chemistry enables precise drug release in the body
How can a drug be released or activated exactly where and when it is needed in the body? For many treatments, particularly in cancer therapy, the active compound should ideally act only at a specific site. Yet in practice, drugs are distributed throughout the entire body: the disease is local, but the therapy is systemic, with little spatial or temporal control.

Originally published at Phys.org

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