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Medicine
fromHarvard Gazette
5 days ago

Materializing safe, on-demand living therapeutics - Harvard Gazette

Implantable living materials encapsulate engineered E. coli that sense nearby pathogens and release therapeutics while resisting mechanical stress for localized treatment.
Medicine
fromScienceDaily
1 week ago

New "Trojan horse" obesity drug supercharges weight loss in early tests

Researchers developed a hybrid obesity drug using GLP-1/GIP signals as a delivery mechanism to target metabolic enhancers directly into cells, achieving superior weight loss and blood sugar control in mice at lower doses.
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fromNature
6 months ago

Tiny robots swim through blood, deliver drugs - and then dissolve

Remote-controlled, biodegradable microrobots can navigate blood vessels to deliver drugs to targeted sites and then dissolve, reducing systemic toxicity.
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fromNature
6 months ago

How nanobots are accelerating cancer-targeting therapies

Magnetically guided nanorobot swarms can be steered through large animals to accumulate in the liver, enhancing targeted drug-delivery efficiency.
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