The absorption of drugs taken by mouth can be limited by the physical conditions within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. For example, the intestines are coated in layers of mucus designed to protect ...

In a recent study published in Science Robotics, a team of researchers led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a robotic drug capsule, which they dub “RoboCap”, designed ...

Researchers have developed a robotic pill that drills through mucus to help deliver medicine to the body. Screengrab of media release by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The body is equipped ...

Traditional oral capsule delivery medications cannot pass through the mucus barrier of the GI tract, which is why large protein medications, insulins, and nucleic acids need to be infused in a ...

It is largely known that oral drug delivery for macromolecules is often limited by the degradative environment of the gastrointestinal tract. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

A new drug capsule developed at MIT will be able to replace insulin injections with a robotic capsule that will spin and tunnel through the mucus barrier of the small intestine and deliver the drug ...

A mucus-wicking robotic pill may offer a new way to deliver meds. The multivitamin-sized device houses a motor and a cargo hold for drugs, including ones that are typically given via injections or ...

You probably don’t spend a lot of time wondering just how hard your stomach works to break down your grub. Food goes in, waste goes out, and if everything’s working as it should, you probably don’t ...

The body is equipped with natural defenses, inside and out, to protect us from a whole wide world of microscopic threats. But sometimes those defenses, well-meaning as they may be, can get in the way ...