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An easily swallowed capsule injects drugs straight into the gut

Exposure to digestive fluids triggers the deployment of a needle through which medication flows into the stomach tissue.
Sequential MicroCT images of egg-shaped capsule delivering contrast dye into tissue

A needle that pops out of the bottom of a pill taken by mouth can feed medications and other substances into the stomach tissue. Credit: A. Abramson et al./Nature Biotechnol.

A pill that pricks the stomach wall to administer drugs could be used to deliver medications to people squeamish about injections.

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Nature 597, 306 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02443-4

References

  1. Abramson, A. et al. Nature Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01024-0 (2021).

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