Parasite-inspired drug delivery system could be the future of medicine
Nov 26, 2020
4 minutes
PROF DAVID GRACIAS
YOU BASED THE TECHNOLOGY ON PARASITIC HOOKWORMS. WHERE DID THAT IDEA COME FROM?
We’ve been trying to deliver drugs through the gastrointestinal tract, and that is a formidable challenge because the gastrointestinal tract has a mucosa - a mucus layer. It’s kind of like a conveyor belt, it’s constantly moving. It moves and it sheds [cells] in different parts at different rates.
We are used to using a patch for controlled release on the outside of the body, but if you put a similar patch on the inside it won’t be retained. So, we were thinking, well, how
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