Drug-delivering micromotors treat their first bacterial infection in the stomach

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 - 12:32 in Health & Medicine

Nanoengineers 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.

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