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AI helps researchers design microneedle patches that restore hair in balding mice
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AI helps researchers design microneedle patches that restore hair in balding mice

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY IMAGE: HAIR REGREW THICKER IN MICE TREATED WITH A MANGANESE-NANOZYME MICRONEEDLE PATCH (RIGHT-SIDE IMAGE, LABELED MNMNP) COMPARED TO THOSE TREATED WITH TESTOSTERONE AS A CONTROL (LEFT-SIDE IMAGE). CREDIT: ADAPTED FROM NANO LETTERS 2022, DOI: 10.1021/ACS.NANOLETT.2C03119 Hair loss is undesirable for many men — and women — because one’s hairstyle is often closely...

Rethinking how drugs are administered: A breakthrough in microneedle patches
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Rethinking how drugs are administered: A breakthrough in microneedle patches

by Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology  (Left) Schematic illustration depicting the developed microneedles, which absorb the interstitial fluid beneath the skin and release the pre-loaded drug. (Right) Side-view image of a microneedle loaded with rhodamine B (pink dye), which diffuses after piercing a porcine skin sample; the yellow dot lines indicate where the...