Abstract
Considering “drug” as “a substance to show a certain activity”, drug delivery system (DDS) can be applied for various fields, such as living environment, health care, and bio-medical research other than medicine and pharmaceutical science. The objective of bio-medical research is to elucidate the complicated and detailed mechanism underlying the life phenomena and therapeutic effect. The bio-medical research will be further developed by making use of DDS technologies for key substances which control and detect the cellular biological functions and dynamics. This review overviews DDS technologies which can apply to the biomedical research in terms of the artificial manipulation of substances. In addition, DDS technologies for new technology fields which are expected to further develop the bio-medical research in future, are introduced.
