Drug-Delivering Micromotors Treat Their First Bacterial Infection in the Stomach
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 - 04:32
in Health & Medicine
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated for the first time using micromotors to treat a bacterial infection in the stomach. These tiny vehicles, each about half the width of a human hair, swim rapidly throughout the stomach while neutralizing gastric acid and then release their cargo of antibiotics at the desired pH.