microneedles
New pump created for microneedle drug-delivery patch
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of “microneedles” to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible with conventional patches.
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Microneedle, quantum dot study opens door to new clinical cancer tools
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed extremely small microneedles that can be used to deliver medically-relevant nanoscale dyes called quantum dots into skin — an advance that opens the door to new techniques for d…