Biomedical technology

Wearable patch can painlessly deliver drugs through the skin

The skin is an appealing route for drug delivery because it allows drugs to go directly to the site where they're needed, which could be useful for wound healing, pain relief, or other medical and cosmetic applications. However, ...

Oncology & Cancer

How tumors transform blood vessels

Increasingly dense cell clusters in growing tumors convert blood vessels into fiber-filled channels. This makes immune cells less effective, as findings by researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Strasbourg suggest. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Enhancing at-home COVID tests with glow-in-the dark materials

Researchers at the University of Houston are using glow-in-the-dark materials to enhance and improve rapid COVID-19 home tests. If you've taken an at-home COVID-19 or pregnancy test, then you've taken what is scientifically ...

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