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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]

Magnetic Micro-Robots in Medicine

Microrobots
Collaborating Chinese and British scientists have developed magnetic micro-robots from spirulina algae with a magnetic coating, and delivered them to [MORE]

Smart Hydrogel

Nitric Oxide Ge
Quoting directly: “At the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea, scientists have developed a hydrogel that [MORE]

Bandage Delivers Timed Medications

Prototype of Smart Bandage
Quoting directly: “Imagine if a wound dressing could release fresh doses of medication over time, oreven different [MORE]

DNA Robots

LQian Cargo Sorting DNA Robot
In the 64 years that scientists have known about the structure of DNA, enormous knowledge has [MORE]

Printing Drugs on Delivery Devices

Printing Medications on Skin Patches
University of Michigan engineers have developed a means of printing drugs onto skin patches, ingestible strips [MORE]