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Purdue U.: New Pump Created for Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patch

{Electrical and Computer Engineering/ Prof. B. Ziaie }
(Sept 2010)
Purdue University researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of "microneedles" to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible with conventional patches. [4, U. Purdue News 5]

MicroChips: Delivering Drugs with MEMS

{MicroChips/ Dr. John Santini, CEO }
The first product, a device for delivering an anti-osteoporosis drug automatically, could allow patients to replace 500 daily injections with a single outpatient implant procedure. The glucose sensor, by continuously monitoring glucose levels, could reveal spikes in blood-sugar levels that go undetected using conventional sensors. Such spikes, if not treated, can contribute to organ damage, including blindness. [1]

Queen Mary University : Light-Switched Drug Delivery Drugs could be slipped into living cells using a light-sensitive capsule

{Queen Mary University - Center of Materials Research / Prof. Gleb Sukhorukov}
Now researchers in England and Germany have created gold-studded polymer microcapsules that release compounds into cells by rupturing when exposed to ultraviolet light. The capsules could be useful for researchers studying the effects of drugs on cells, and eventually they could perhaps serve as a clinical tool for administering medication.
"You can keep the capsules in the body for a while, and then you switch [on] the light to release them," says Gleb Sukhorukov, professor of biomaterials at Queen Mary University of London and a researcher on the project. [2]

ETHZ: Propellers for Microrobots, Copying Bacterial Propellers Could Give Biomedical Robots a Boost.

{ETHZ - Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems / Prof. Bradley Nelson}
Researchers have developed a novel form of propulsion for microrobots that mimics the way bacteria zip about using corkscrew-like appendages called flagella. Such propulsion could be used as part of smart drug delivery systems, which are steered through the bloodstream directly to their target, says Bradley Nelson... [3]
Prof Nelson is also involved in Nano-Tera.ch Projects: CabTures and SelSys

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