{"id":239904,"date":"2026-06-29T03:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/mathematical-modeling-helps-advance-use-of-magnetic-particles-in-targeted-drug-delivery-systems"},"modified":"2026-06-29T03:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:07:54","slug":"mathematical-modeling-helps-advance-use-of-magnetic-particles-in-targeted-drug-delivery-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/mathematical-modeling-helps-advance-use-of-magnetic-particles-in-targeted-drug-delivery-systems","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical modeling helps advance use of magnetic particles in targeted drug-delivery systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematical-modeling-helps-advance-use-of-magnetic-particles-in-targeted-drug-delivery-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Florida State University computational scientist is paving the way for future medical breakthroughs by developing mathematical models and simulations to predict the behavior of a unique drug-delivery method, which aims to deploy treatments directly to targeted sites in the body.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State University Associate Professor of Scientific Computing Bryan Quaife is part of a multi-institutional team of engineers, mathematicians and computational scientists conducting foundational research essential to the design of a drug-delivery system that could reduce medication side effects while increasing treatment efficacy. Their research expands on work proposing the use of magnetic particles to guide cell-like drug carriers toward a specific target, like a tumor.<\/p>\n<p>This work, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/1jsk-9q7w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, reveals how tiny particles moving inside microscopic drug carriers can gradually stress and eventually rupture the enclosing membrane. These findings could help engineers design smarter drug-delivery systems to protect therapeutic cargo during transport and release it on demand at the desired location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida State University computational scientist is paving the way for future medical breakthroughs by developing mathematical models and simulations to predict the behavior of a unique drug-delivery method, which aims to deploy treatments directly to targeted sites in the body. Florida State University Associate Professor of Scientific Computing Bryan Quaife is part of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}