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Robotic capsule, RoboCap, designed to tunnel through the mucus barrier for drug delivery of insulin and other large proteins.
RoboCap Guides Drugs to Digestive Tract
Oct 21, 2022
MIT researchers developed a capsule with a robotic cap designed to tunnel through mucus to allow the capsule's contents to penetrate the digestive tract.
silhouette of a person taking a pill to illustrate the concept of a fecal transplant pill
Would You Take a Poop Pill?
May 12, 2022
Fecal transplants have been proven effective at treating C. diff, but current delivery methods are lacking. Is stool encapsulation the answer?
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MediChip Aims to Deliver Localized Cancer Treatment
Apr 09, 2022
The drug-delivery system developed by BioSapien is a 3D-printed biodegradable and biocompatible mesh that releases a chemotherapy drug to a specific tumor, thus eliminating adverse side effects that can happen with systemic chemotherapy procedures.
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