February 4 - This Microchip Will Deliver Drugs in Your Body by Remote Control
Article: Misc.
Biomedical engineer Robert Langer has pioneered controlled release drug delivery methods and basically invented tissue engineering (making body parts in the lab). His next trick: an implantable microchip that can deliver drugs by wireless signal.
The chips Langer and his team are working on are around two centimetres squared and contain up to 1,000 tiny “wells” you can put different drugs in, each with a little cover. As the covers are removed, the drug is released. You could put 1,000 doses of the same drug in to be released over time, or different ones. “You can also literally have a pharmacy on a chip if the drugs are potent enough,” he told me in a phone interview.
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