New tablet attaches to the lining of the GI tract, resists being pulled away Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new type of pill that, once swallowed, can... Read more
Not only does this material offer a possible, easy new way to treat cardiovascular disease A new type of “good cholesterol,” made in the lab, could one day deliver drugs to where they are ne... Read more
Nanoparticles programmed to dispatch drugs to specific parts of the body could make surgery a thing of the past Imagine swallowing a pill of tiny molecular robots that can hone in on any inj... Read more
MIT engineers have created a new polymer film that can generate electricity by drawing on a ubiquitous source: water vapor. The new material changes its shape after absorbing tiny amounts of... Read more
Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices. Anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine’s quills knows tha... Read more
HOW do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company? Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how. Since the 1980s, his Langer Lab at the Ma... Read more
Using ultrasound waves, researchers boost skin’s permeability to drugs. Using ultrasound waves, MIT engineers have found a way to enhance the permeability of skin to drugs, making transderma... Read more
“It becomes difficult to determine where the tissue ends and the electronics begin.” Harvard scientists have created a type of “cyborg” tissue for the first time by embedding a three-d... Read more
First clinical trial of an implantable chip-based device Much as anyone with a medical condition wants to get better, it can often be difficult to get patients to stick to their medication r... Read more