Drug delivery and marine structures

Many materials snch as ceramics, polymers, alginate, and polysaccharides have shown potential advantages as drug delivery systems. However, marine materials such as coral exoskeletons and marine shells show a better promise due to their easy 

After proper characterization, we identified it as a marine structure belonging to the foraminifera family. Foraminifera are abundant and are found in all marine environments, but different species exist with different shapes depending on their environment. Foraminifera are single-celled organisms with shells consisting of multilayer inner chambers commonly divided and added during its growth. 

These observations opened a new thinking in drug dehvery. Natural spheres loaded with drugs can spontaneously degrade and progressively release entrapped biological contents introduced during synthesis. 

Prior to any marine material can be used as a graft or drug delivery material, it must first undergo a rigorous process to test the composition, purity, morphology, and 

Chemical conversion of these shells to calcium phosphate (microspheres) does not change the original structure making it available for adsorption of candidate drug compounds and which can allow new bone cell penetration into the micropores after bone graft implantation. Due to the pore architecture, these microspheres within the 

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