Hiroshima University Assistant Professor Ji Ha Lee at the laboratory (IMAGE)
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Dr. Lee is part of a research team that successfully controlled the elasticity of a gel system made from chitosan, a natural polysaccharide. They found that the release rate of a drug that used the resulting stretchable gel was at 90%, compared to just 10% in a non-stretchable gel.
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Hiroshima University
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