If you’re a gardener – and definitely if you’re a farmer – you want to spend less on fertilizer but while growing more food.

Biomacromolecules are increasingly important for treating major diseases such as tumors, infections, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, ...

Microneedle patches already show a great deal of promise as a painless alternative to hypodermic needles. A new one, however, could find use as a more effective means of treating serious bacterial ...

Scientists at the University of Washington say their approach would be more precise and less painful than the traditional skin test that uses a hypodermic needle. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Elizabeth ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institut have come up with a microneedle that can painlessly measure drugs in a patient’s bloodstream without ...

Micron Biomedical has begun trialing a microneedle-based measles-rubella vaccine in children. The Atlanta-based drug delivery specialist said the phase 1/2 study is the first time a microneedle ...

A McGill University research team has developed a painless, automated way to deliver in vitro fertilization (IVF) hormones ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Peanut-coated microneedles may represent a safe and effective alternative to epicutaneous immunotherapy, ...

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis say they have developed a microneedle patch that can be applied to the skin, capture a biomarker of interest, and ...

Researchers from the lab of Robert Langer, ScD, at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), say they have developed a printer for ...

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough ...