Researchers say they developed a biodegradable brain implant capable of helping to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors. Medscape News reported that the research marks another step toward using ultrasound to combat cancer. According to the team, led by Thanh Nguyen, these drugs can penetrate the blood-brain barrier to reach these brain tumors. Nguyen serves […]
Research & Development
Humacyte, JDRF to develop biovascular pancreas to treat type 1 diabetes
Humacyte (Nasdaq:HUMA) and JDRF announced today that they entered into a collaboration to develop a biovascular pancreas (BVP). The collaboration aims to advance the development of Humacyte’s BVP product candidate for treating type 1 diabetes. Humacyte designed its BVP to deliver insulin-producing islets using its investigational, tissue-engineered blood vessel. The company calls it the Human […]
Researchers develop wearable patch for painless drug delivery through the skin
Researchers at MIT hope to address the difficulties of transdermal drug delivery through a new wearable patch. The MIT team sees the skin as an appealing route for drug delivery. It enables the drugs to travel directly to the necessary site, which offers benefits in wound care, pain relief and more. However, the tough outer […]
Researchers use tiny drug delivery implant to treat tumors
Researchers at Houston Methodist Research Institute developed a tiny drug delivery device for addressing difficult-to-treat cancers. The researchers published their work in a paper in Advanced Science. They used an implantable nanofluidic device they invented to deliver CD40 monoclonal antibodies (mAB). The team calls the device a nanofluidic drug-eluting seed (NDES). With the device — […]
This technology could enable time-released drug delivery
Bioengineers at Rice University developed a new technology for delivering drugs in a time-releasing manner. Kevin McHugh, corresponding author of a study about the technology, believes this could make missing doses of medicines and vaccines a thing of the past. McHugh and the Rice team saw their work published online in Advanced Materials. According to McHugh […]
These ear tubes with liquid infused materials may improve ear infection treatment outcomes
A research collaboration in Boston may have uncovered a design overhaul to improve outcomes for ear tubes known as tympanostomy tubes (TTs). These TTs create an opening between the ear canal and middle ear. Their aim is to ventilate the middle ear, provide a route for fluid to drain out and allow antibiotic drops to […]
This implantable fuel cell generates electricity from glucose
A team of researchers developed an implantable fuel cell that uses excess glucose from tissue to generate electrical energy. By combining the fuel cell with artificial data cells, the team produced insulin with the touch of a button. This effectively lowered blood glucose levels like the natural process in the pancreas. Given that current treatments […]
This implantable drug delivery system is self-powered
Researchers at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University developed technology that uses external light sources to trigger drug delivery. Yamin Zhang and Dr. Colin Franz of Shirley Ryan and John Rogers of Northwestern led the research team. They say their technology represents the first implantable drug delivery system triggered by external light sources. These light […]
How Embecta started strong and what’s ahead for the BD diabetes spinoff
Ten months after spinning off from BD, Embecta CEO Dev Kurdikar lays out what the future holds for the diabetes technology company. When Embecta became a standalone company in April 2022, CFO Jake Elguicze said he felt it was “uniquely positioned.” As a pure-play diabetes technology developer, its beginning phase hardly mirrors a normal startup. […]
The year ahead in diabetes care: what to expect in 2023
After a banner year for diabetes technology in 2022, there’s still plenty to look forward to in 2023. Throughout 2022, we saw a wide range of advancements in diabetes technology. We saw launches for next-generation technologies, exciting clinical trial results, rumored spinouts and acquisitions and more. You can read all about the biggest diabetes stories […]
