QR Codes you Swallow
April 3, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
QR (for Quick Release) codes are barcodes mainly used for keeping track of things. But researchers at the University of Copenhagen have created ink jet printable QR codes that contain a precise dose of medicine, and are meant to be swallowed. As this piece says: “Chief among those benefits is the tailoring of the dose. If you can literally print medicine, you can put the perfect amount of one or more drugs into a single print, reducing the number of medicines the patient needs to take separately, and without the problem of the dose having to be rounded to the nearest amount that happens to be in production. It should even be possible to customize the rate at which the dose is released once swallowed.” MORE WITH VIDEO
Image Credit: University of Copenhagen