Your skin is superb at keeping things out, which is great until a medicine needs to get in. A team at Georgia Tech has designed a fix that looks, under a microscope, like a tiny spiky ball, and on November 4, 2026 the university described a new version built to disappear after use.
A cream-friendly alternative to patches
Mark Prausnitz, a Regents' Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has spent years working on ways to move drugs through the skin's oute...
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Eye drops with new chemical could clear up cataracts
Scientists have discovered a new chemical that could reverse cataracts, one of the leading causes of blindness. This new substance could be used in eye drops, greatly simplifying the treatment and making it accessible to the general population at a low price and without intrusive procedures. A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision. It can affect one or both eyes, generally evolves slowly, and causes about 50% of all the blindness cases in the world. Catara...
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Contact Lenses Deliver Medicine to Treat Eyes
Scientists at Harvard Medical School have developed soft contact lenses which can ‘dispense' prescription drugs over a period of weeks to the exact spot they are needed.
Eye drops are used to dispense most eye medications but they are inefficient in several ways. Only about 1 to 7 percent of eye drop medications are absorbed into the eye because most of it drips out; drugs applied to the eyes in this manner may be washed out after only thirty minutes or so. To add, patients find eye drops cum...
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