Implantable Microchip Delivers Osteoporosis Medicine (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Implantable Microchip Delivers Osteoporosis Medicine (3 of 4)

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This is a visual of the microchip and the steps by which drug is released. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 15, 2012 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Robert Farra of MicroCHIPS, Inc. in Waltham, Ma., and colleagues, was titled, “First-in-Human Testing of a Wirelessly Controlled Drug Delivery Microchip.”

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Courtesy of MicroCHIPS, Inc., Massachusetts

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