A peek behind the paper – Oliver Lieleg on building nanoparticle drug carriers unlocked by specific DNA ‘keys’

In this interview, Oliver Lieleg, Professor of Biomechanics at the Technical University of Munich (Germany), discusses recent research from his lab where they developed mucin-based nanoparticle drug carriers that only release their therapeutic load when triggered by specific DNA ‘keys’ inside of target cells. Read the full research article here >>> Please can you introduce yourself and give a short summary of your research career to date? I am a physicist by training, with a specialization in molecular and cellular biophysics; this is also the area in which I conducted my PhD research, studying the relationship between microarchitecture and viscoelastic...