{"id":17958,"date":"2015-09-29T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T00:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/scientists-pioneer-3-d-printed-drug-delivering-micro-needles"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:09:42","slug":"scientists-pioneer-3-d-printed-drug-delivering-micro-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/scientists-pioneer-3-d-printed-drug-delivering-micro-needles","title":{"rendered":"Scientists pioneer 3-D-printed drug delivering micro-needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-pioneer-3-d-printed-drug-delivering-micro-needles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a new technique to produce a 3D \u2018micro-printed\u2019 array of needles capable of drug delivery. The technique would offer a pain-free drug delivery device that would allow drugs to diffuse within the body as the biomaterial device degrades in the body. This offers treatments for a wide range of diseases, including melanoma cancers.<\/p>\n<p>The results are published today, Wednesday 30th September, in the journal <i> <i>Biofabrication <\/i><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, based at the University of Akron and the University of Texas, report producing a drug-loaded array for transdermal delivery of a <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemotherapeutic+drug\/\" rel=\"tag\" >chemotherapeutic drug<\/a>, fabricated using microstereolithography. The arrays consisted of 25 poly(propylene fumarate) microneedles, each needle having a tip and base diameter of 20 \u00b5m and 200 \u00b5m, respectively, and a height of 1 mm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-09-scientists-d-printed-drug-micro-needles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new technique to produce a 3D \u2018micro-printed\u2019 array of needles capable of drug delivery. The technique would offer a pain-free drug delivery device that would allow drugs to diffuse within the body as the biomaterial device degrades in the body. This offers treatments for a wide range of diseases, including melanoma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51404,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958\/revisions\/51404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}