Delivering drugs in inhalable microspheres
September 30, 2003 | Source: KurzweilAI
Medications such as therapeutic DNA, insulin and human growth hormone must enter the body through painful injections, but a Johns Hopkins researcher wamts to deliver them by packing the drugs inside microscopic plastic spheres that can be inhaled painlessly.
Inside the lungs, the particles will dissolve harmlessly, releasing the medicine at a predetermined pace.