image: The self-orienting millimeter-scale applicator (SOMA), inspired by the self-righting nature of the leopard tortoise, localizes to the stomach lining, self-rights, and inserts drug into the tissue wall. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 8, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Alex Abramson at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "An ingestible self-orienting system for oral delivery of macromolecules." view more
Credit: Ania Hupalowska, Alex Abramson, Muhammad Mahdi Karim