When an open theragripper, left, is exposed to internal body temperatures, it closes on the intestinal wall. In the gripper’s center is a space for a small dose of a drug. Credit: Johns Hopkins University
Inspired by a parasitic worm, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Engineering team up to design “theragrippers” to deliver medicine to GI tract.
Problem: extended-release drugs pass too quickly thru GI tract. Solution: Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Engineering design dust-sized machines that snap to colonic walls and release medicine gradually.
Once attached, do the theragrippers ever let go?
Source:
- November 3, 2020. “Johns Hopkins Researchers Engineer Tiny, Shape-Changing Machines That Deliver Medicine Efficiently to the GI Tract.” Johns Hopkins Medicine Newsroom.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/johns-hopkins-researchers-engineer-tiny-shape-changing-machines-that-deliver-medicine-efficiently-to-the-gi-tract.
Organization. - October 28, 2020. Arijit Ghosh, Ling Li, Liyi Xu, Ranjeet P. Dashneha Gupta, Jenny Lam, Qianru Jin, Venkata Akshintala, Gayatri Pahapale, Wangqu Liu, Anjishnu Sarkar, Rana Rais, David H. Gracias, and Florin M. Selaru. “Gastrointestinal-Resident, Shape-Changing Microdevices Extend Drug Release in Vivo.” Science Advances 6 (44): eabb4133.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb4133.
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