KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY IMAGE: LEFT: BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS CONTINUED TO DECREASE FROM 15 TO 60 MINUTES AFTER ADMINISTRATION. THIS DECREASE IN BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS PERSISTED UNTIL AT LEAST 120 MINUTES AFTER ADMINISTRATION. RIGHT: A DECREASE IN BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS WAS OBSERVED 15 MINUTES AFTER ORAL ADMINISTRATION, AND THE HYPOGLYCEMIC EFFECT PERSISTED UNTIL 120 MINUTES AFTER ADMINISTRATION....
by Hilde Pracht, Leiden University Micro-needles are a promising tool for the painless administration of vaccines through the skin. But, are these minuscule needles really effective? Ph.D. student Pim Schipper of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research investigated various factors of vaccination via the skin and discovered, among other things, that the injection depth...
Adhesives for biomedical applications can be detached with light HARVARD JOHN A. PAULSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES Pulling off a Band-Aid may soon get a lot less painful. Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Xi’an Jiaotong University in China have developed a new type...
At Leiden University in The Netherlands, research is being done on making vaccinations easier and more effective. Currently, needles are commonly used and no one, particularly children, is happy about that. Microneedles patches have been developed in the past, but while they’re effective in some applications, they suffer from many limitations. At Leiden University one...
