Drug-Delivering Micromotors Treat Their First Bacterial Infection
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego 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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