Drugs consisting of large proteins, like insulin, can’t be taken in capsule form as they are unable to “pass through the mucus barrier that lines the digestive tract.” Instead, they are injected or administered at a hospital. A breakthrough discovery may change this. A new drug capsule out of MIT “has a robotic cap that spins and tunnels through the mucus barrier when it reaches the small intestine, allowing drugs carried by the capsule to pass into cells lining the intestine.” The researchers have demonstrated that “they could use this approach to deliver insulin as well as vancomycin, an antibiotic peptide that currently has to be injected.”
Breakthrough Robotic Capsules to Deliver Medicine
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