POSTS TAGGED AS drug delivery

Patch with Microneedles Delivers Drugs for Eye Diseases

Eye patch with microneedles
Means for delivering drugs to treat glaucoma and macular degeneration—eye drops and needle injections–are limited in several [MORE]

Focused Ultrasound Targets Drug Release in the Brain

Nanoparticle delivers drug through focused ultrasound disruption
Innovations in drug delivery seemingly are reported every day.  This piece describes how Stanford [MORE]

Making Nanoparticles Stick in the Liver

Nanoparticles with hairy polymer shells
Various kinds of nanoparticles are possible drug delivery vehicles in the body.  This report tells of [MORE]

Implantable Device for Breast Cancer Immunotherapy

Nanodevice for drug delivery directly to tumor
“To fulfill the unmet clinical need for sustained local drug delivery and to avoid [MORE]

Wirelessly Controlled “pill”

MIT Wireless pill
For the past two years, researchers at MIT have been improving the design and capabilities of an ingestible [MORE]

Nanoparticles Deliver Drugs for Kidney Disease

Nanoparticles deliver medication to kidney
Kidney tissue naturally filters out foreign substances which is why drug delivery is so problematic.  In [MORE]

A Robot Crawling in the Stomach

Stomach robot
Using a silicone material embedded with magnetic particles, engineers at the City University of Hong Kong have built a [MORE]

Even Smarter Bandages

Smart bandage to monitor chronic wounds
pH is an important factor in wound healing.  Normally healing wounds have pH levels between [MORE]

X-ray, Nanobubble Delivery of Anticancer Chemo

Dr. Wei-Deng researching nanobubbles
“Nanobubbles,” aka liposomes, have shown usefulness in drug delivery before, but their limitation has been in tissue [MORE]

A Gel after Cancer Surgery

Dendritic Cell Revealed
A gel of biodegradable sugar and drugs that activate dendritic cells has been shown in animal studies to [MORE]

Huntington’s RNAs Inhibit Cancer Growth

3D Image of Hungtington Gene
Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that the trinucleotide repeats (TNRs) associated with Huntington’s disease also [MORE]

QR Codes you Swallow

Edible QR Code Medicine
QR (for Quick Release) codes are barcodes mainly used for keeping track of things. But researchers at [MORE]

Brain Delivery of Drugs with Ultrathin Needle

Ultrathin Needle Delivers Medication to Brain
Quoting directly: “Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have devised a miniaturized system that can deliver [MORE]

A Skin Patch against Antibiotic Resistance

Large Scale Model of Antibiotic Microneedle Patch
Oral antibiotics are absorbed through the intestines, and because not all of the drug [MORE]