laboratoryequipment: Material May Be Key to Super-long-acting PillsMedical devices designed to resid
laboratoryequipment: Material May Be Key to Super-long-acting PillsMedical devices designed to reside in the stomach have a variety of applications, including prolonged drug delivery, electronic monitoring and weight-loss intervention. However, these devices, often created with nondegradable elastic polymers, bear an inherent risk of intestinal obstruction as a result of accidental fracture or migration. As such, they are usually designed to remain in the stomach for a limited time.Now, researchers at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have created a polymer gel that overcomes this safety concern and could allow for the development of long-acting devices that reside in the stomach, including orally delivered capsules that can release drugs over a number of days, weeks or, potentially, months following a single administration.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2015/07/material-may-be-key-super-long-acting-pills -- source link
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