Drug-Delivering Micromotors Fueled by Stomach Acid (VIDEO)

University of California - San Diego

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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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Laboratory for Nanobioelectronics at UC San Diego

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