by Marcene Robinson, University at Buffalo Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When prescribing medicine to children, doctors often rely on guidelines that simply scale down the dosage that adults receive. This imprecise and common practice fails to capture the nuances of childhood, which include rapid growth spurts. To improve upon this method, a University at Buffalo-led team...
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Accurate drug dosages with proton traps
Researchers at Linköping University have developed a proton trap that makes organic electronic ion pumps more precise when delivering drugs. The new technique may reduce drug side effects, and in the long term, ion pumps may help patients with symptoms of neurological diseases for which effective treatments are not available. The results have been published in...