UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – RIVERSIDE IMAGE: PET SCAN IMAGES SHOW ORALLY ADMINISTERED EPP6 ACCUMULATED IN THE INTESTINES AND MADE ITS WAY INTO THE BRAIN AND BLADDER THROUGH BLOOD CIRCULATION. CREDIT: MIN XUE/UCR Researchers at UC Riverside are paving the way for diabetes and cancer patients to forget needles and injections, and instead take pills to...
UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA IMAGE: THE ROBOT CAN BE ATTACHED TO THE USER’S HAND CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA Tsukuba, Japan—While most of us are never without our smartphones, robots may also soon become indispensable companions. It certainly seems so based on the recent experiments conducted by researchers in Japan, who developed a hand-held soft robot that...
Microencapsulation in biodegradable polymers allows drugs such as peptide therapeutics to be released over time in the body. Peptides are molecules in the body that are composed of short chains of amino acids, and include messengers, growth factors, and well-known hormones such as insulin. Because of their larger size and structure, peptide drugs are rarely given...
