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Got milk? Startup develops milk-based targeted drug-delivery technology


A couple of University of Nebraska professors have launched a startup company with the goal of bringing to market an innovative method for delivering drugs and other therapeutics to targeted locations in the human body. The key ingredient? Milk.

A couple of University of Nebraska professors have launched a startup company with the goal of bringing to market an innovative method for delivering drugs and other therapeutics to targeted locations in the human body. Now, Janos Zempleni and Jiantao Guo, two researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, have launched a startup company, Minovacca, intending to bring to market an innovative targeted drug delivery system that uses – you guessed it – milk. The technology relies on universal milk exosomes, nano-sized bubble-like structures released by cells that act like little messengers, carrying important materials such as proteins, fats, and genetic information.

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