Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Microneedles Have Potential to Target Therapeutics to the Back of the Eye



Eye doctors may soon have a better way to treat diseases such as macular degeneration that affect tissues in the back of the eye thanks to tiny microneedles. This could be important as the population ages and develops more eye-related illnesses. Pharmaceutical companies also develop new drugs that otherwise could only be administered by injecting into the eye with a hypodermic needle. For the first time, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory ...





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