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MIT concocts next-generation, needle-free drug injector
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have concocted a next-generation medical device that delivers drugs using programmed high-pressure jets rather than needles.
D. Medical slashes jobs, spending to boost insulin pump focus
Israel's D. Medical Industries is shedding jobs, cutting salaries and restructuring in order to better focus on marketing its proprietary insulin pumps.
FDA to rule soon on Tekmira-created nanoparticle chemo drug
May 13 is the do-or-die date for Marqibo, a nanoparticle-delivered injectable cancer drug conceived by Canada's Tekmira Pharamceuticals ( $TKMR ).
Bend Research, in nod to Pfizer, eyes biotherapeutics drug delivery
Bend Research plans to expand its drug delivery and manufacturing technology know-how into developing better biotherapeutics and vaccines.
UAB cultivating drug delivery research
Universities are increasingly eyeing drug delivery technology as the next great place on which to focus their research energies. A case in point, as The Birmingham News r eports, is the University of Alabama at Birmingham's College of Arts and Sciences.
Forest Labs to launch inhaled lung infection drug in Germany
Forest Laboratories ($FRX) says it will use Germany to launch the European Union rollout of Colobreathe, its new dry powder inhalation treatment for cystic fibrosis-related lung infections, by...
GSK, Angiochem dream of brain delivery for enzyme disorder drugs
Angiochem will work with GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) on creating new treatments that can cross the blood-brain barrier.
Iranian researchers test gold nanoparticle cancer drug delivery
Nanomedicine researchers at Lorestan University in Iran say they've made progress with a new drug delivery mechanism designed to carry targeted non-chemotherapy cancer treatments. Their design...
Heart muscle-cell gel can treat cardiac damage, maybe carry drugs
Scientists at the University of California-San Diego have concocted a recipe for a powerful and potentially quite versatile substance. Their injectable gel showed promise in pigs and rats as a heart...
Harvard's tiny DNA robots deliver cancer-killing treatment in lab
Drug delivery is becoming seriously sci-fi: Harvard University scientists successfully created a nano-like robot out of DNA that they believe can be a drug delivery stealth bomber, Bloomberg reports....
