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 […]
Drug delivery
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 […]
Here’s what some drug delivery devices look like on a CT scan
If you’ve ever wondered what the inside of some impressive drug delivery technology innovations looks like, look no further. ScanOfTheMonth.com publishes monthly collections of CT scans of exciting products and the month of July has some intriguing scans of drug delivery devices, including inhalers, pens and more. The scans cover life-saving technologies that span the […]
Rani Therapeutics prices $73M IPO for robotic drug-delivery pill tech
Rani Therapeutics Holdings (NSDQ:RANI), developer of a robotic drug-delivery pill system, generated $73.3 million in its underwritten initial public offering (IPO) of Class A common stock. The San Jose, Calif.–based company’s IPO of 6.7 million shares priced at $11 a share, generating gross proceeds of $73.3 million. The company initially targeted an IPO worth approximately […]
The potential to improve therapeutic outcomes with microfluidics
Traditional methods for drug encapsulation are limited in their ability to fabricate consistently sized, monodisperse liposomal formulations. As a result, they can negatively influence the efficacy of therapeutic drug delivery. More efficient manufacturing methods and microfluidic technologies provide an alternative, high throughput and cost-effective approach to producing nanotherapeutics. Researchers at the University of Manchester are […]
Research indicates notable future growth in transdermal patch market
Research published today has highlighted potential growth down the line in the transdermal drug delivery patch space. Kuick Research published an analysis claiming that the U.S. transdermal patch drug market is revolving on account of two powerful “mega-trends.” Those trends — acceleration in the U.S. pharmaceutical market growth and the restructuring of the healthcare sector […]
VC-backed startup Bionaut Labs intends to use tiny robots for drug delivery
Every once in a while, researchers invoke the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage to describe efforts to use nanotechnology to deliver drugs in the body. A submarine crew shrunk to microscopic size work to damage an injured scientist’s brain in the film. Now, the company Bionaut Labs (Los Angeles) has emerged from stealth mode to describe […]
MedCrypt and QuiO partner to protect devices from cyberattacks
MedCrypt and QuiO have announced an integration partnership for a set of cloud-connected injection devices known as the Smartinjector devices to provide safe data transfers of patient prescriptions and injections. OuiO will receive software security with this partnership for its Si One, for specialty drugs, and Si Pen, for diabetes patients. MedCrypt’s software will be able to sync […]
Self-selecting peptides hold promise for drug delivery
Researchers developed self-selecting polymers that form by adapting to their environment, according to a study published yesterday in Nature Nanotechnology. The peptides continually reorganize their sequences to form polymers most suited to their environment, instead of researchers designing polymers to fit their surroundings or relying on chance discovery. “In our quest to find materials based on […]
