Drug delivery

Roche teams up with Alcyone LifeSciences in Precision Drug Delivery

December 25, 2018

Roche (OTCQX:RHHBY) will collaborate with privately held Alcyone Lifesciences in precision drug delivery aimed at optimizing intrathecal (injected into the spinal canal) therapies and developing antisense oligonucleotide treatments for [more...]

Skin Vaccination with Microneedle Patch

July 23, 2017

Biodegradable micro-needle patch (image credit: Georgia State University) A boosting skin vaccination with a biodegradable microneedle patch and protein constructed from sequences of influenza virus subtypes could improve the effectiveness [more...]

Microflow Sensor, Micropump Combine for Single-use Drug Delivery Module

March 28, 2017

Fraunhofer EMFT’s silicon micropump has been combined with Sensirion’s LD20 single-use liquid flow sensor to develop a smart and cost-efficient miniaturized module for controlled and monitored drug delivery. This highly integrated [more...]

Microneedles: a Painless Way to Monitor Drug Concentrations in the Bloodstream

August 1, 2016

Figure Cross-sectional schematic view (A) and top view design (B) of the devices. A surface-functionalized microneedle is integrated to a PDMS optofluidic device equipped with optical fibers. The mechanism of the optical waveguide equipped [more...]

Custom-sized Nanocontainers Help Drug Delivery

April 17, 2016

In a recently patented NIST method for making precisely sized nanoscale capsules, a stream of fluid (isopropyl alcohol) containing dissolved biomolecules (the building blocks for the capsules) is focused by streams of water on either side. [more...]

Ingestible Sensor Market to Reach $678M by 2022

March 21, 2016

Image Credit: Proteus Digital Health The ingestible sensor market is expected to grow from $198 million in 2015 to $678 million by 2022, at a CAGR of 20.2% between 2016 and 2022, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets. The [more...]

A 3D-printed Organs-on-a-Chip Device Reveals Clues for Diabetes therapy

January 17, 2016

Figure 1. The device that contains three cell types mimics an endocrine and hormone transportation process. (Image Credit: Dr. Chengpeng Chen, Saint Louis University) A recent publication on the back cover of Integrative Biology achieved [more...]

Blood-Brain Barrier Opened Noninvasively with Focused Ultrasound for the First Time

January 1, 2016

Opening the blood-brain barrier in a localized region to deliver chemotherapy to a tumor is a predicate for utilizing focused ultrasound for the delivery of other drugs, DNA-loaded nanoparticles, viral vectors, and antibodies to the brain [more...]

Dime-Sized Electric Chip Removes Nanoparticles from Blood with Ease

November 25, 2015

An artist’s representation of the nanoparticle removal chip developed by researchers in Professor Michael Heller’s lab at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. An oscillating electric field (purple arcs) separates [more...]

Implantable Insulin Pump Now Possible With MEMs Technology

November 15, 2015

MEMS TECHNOLOGY Would you use an implantable insulin Pump? Debiotech is a medical device company, based in Switzerland. The development of innovative medical tech is their main business and, since its inception, the company designed many [more...]

Drug Delivery On The Go: Device Design Considerations

November 3, 2015

Wearable devices are changing the world of drug delivery, emerging as solutions for chronic disease management and offering patients reprieve from the burden associated with frequent injections and bulky ambulatory devices. Diabetes care [more...]

Pharma and Drug Delivery Developments Combine

October 11, 2015

Both micro manufacturing techniques and materials advancements are constantly driving innovation in pharmaceutical devices, combination devices, and drug delivery. The medical device sector is constantly pushing the drive towards [more...]

Advances in Microfluidics & Nanofluidics 2015

August 19, 2015

Advances in Microfluidics & Nanofluidics 2015 (AMN2015) is the sixth conference after successful meetings previously held in Hong Kong (2009), Singapore (2011), Dalian, China (2012), Notre Dame, USA (2013), Taipei, Taiwan (2014). The [more...]

Review: Microfluidics Solution to Future Developments

August 15, 2015

Cell encapsulation with Dolomite microfluidic device. (Image Credit: Dolomite Microfluidics) Interest in microfluidics technology began as far back at 1975, when researchers at Stanford Univ. developed a miniature gas chromatograph [more...]

Mayo Clinic, Partners To Develop NFC-Driven Glucose Monitoring Tech

August 2, 2015

Gentag and NovioSense, developers of diabetes sensors, along with German chip-maker Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (IMS), are forming a joint venture with healthcare institution Mayo Clinic to combine their [more...]

Device Delivers Drugs to Brain Via Remote Control

July 20, 2015

A team of researchers has developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain and activated by remote control to deliver drugs. The technology, demonstrated for the first time in mice, one day may be [more...]

Microchips Biotech Commercializes Implantable Drug-delivery Device

June 29, 2015

A version of Microchip Biotech’s implantable, wirelessly controlled microchip. When an electrical current is delivered to one of the chip’s tiny reservoirs, a single dose of therapeutics is released into the body. (Image [more...]

Nanoparticles: Great Promise Against Cancer

May 27, 2015

The advancement of nanotechnology in the past decade has driven the development of numerous medical applications. None of them is as promising as the use of targeted nanoparticles aimed to improve the treatment of cancer, which has serious [more...]

Elegant Delivery Solution for Reagents in POC Diagnostics

May 22, 2015

IVD device representation with reagent blisters The continuing growth of point-of-care (POC) in vitro diagnostic (IVD) testing is supported by technology improvements and the recognition that rapid test results offer economic and patient [more...]

Ion Pump Implant Gives the Body Its Own Pain Alleviation

May 17, 2015

The device consists of an electronically and ionically conducting polymer electrode inside a fluid reservoir, and an ionically conducting delivery channel leading out to the target region—for example, the spinal cord. The reservoir is [more...]