Odd headline from Science magazine:
RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract
The story:
Here, we describe the development of the RoboCap, an orally ingestible robotic drug delivery device that locally clears the mucus layer, enhances mixing, and topically deposits the drug payload to enhance drug absorption (Movie 1). The RoboCap’s rotational and churning movements are generated by surface features designed to interact directly with small intestinal (SI) plicae, villi, and mucus. We hypothesize that drug bioavailability will be significantly greater when delivered with the RoboCap compared with standard oral delivery. We test the efficacy of the RoboCap in delivering two model peptide drugs, vancomycin and insulin, through Franz cell diffusion and in vivo testing in swine.There is a video embedded in the article which I can't copy, but the commentary to it sometimes strikes me as inadvertently funny.
Still drug-dealers delivering their harmful poisons, but in a more high-tech way. Their uselessness is surreal. Symbolic of the West that Putin is dragging over the coals.
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