{"id":84619,"date":"2018-11-09T23:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/new-flexible-transparent-wearable-biopatch-improves-cellular-observation-drug-delivery"},"modified":"2018-11-09T23:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T07:22:22","slug":"new-flexible-transparent-wearable-biopatch-improves-cellular-observation-drug-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/new-flexible-transparent-wearable-biopatch-improves-cellular-observation-drug-delivery","title":{"rendered":"New flexible, transparent, wearable biopatch, improves cellular observation, drug delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-flexible-transparent-wearable-biopatch-improves-cellular-observation-drug-delivery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Purdue University researchers have developed a new flexible and translucent base for silicon nanoneedle patches to deliver exact doses of biomolecules directly into cells and expand observational opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that eight or nine <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silicon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon<\/a> nanoneedles can be injected into a single cell without significantly damaging a cell. So we can use these nanoneedles to deliver biomolecules into cells or even tissues with minimal invasiveness,\u201d said Chi Hwan Lee, an assistant professor in Purdue University\u2019s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and School of Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>A surgeon performs surgery on the back of a hand of a patient who has melanoma. Purdue researchers are developing a new flexible and translucent base for silicon patches to deliver exact doses of biomolecules directly into cells and expand observational opportunities. The researchers say skin cancer could be one of the applications for the patches.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-flexible-transparent-wearable-biopatch-cellular.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-flexible-transparent-weara...lular.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purdue University researchers have developed a new flexible and translucent base for silicon nanoneedle patches to deliver exact doses of biomolecules directly into cells and expand observational opportunities. \u201cThis means that eight or nine silicon nanoneedles can be injected into a single cell without significantly damaging a cell. So we can use these nanoneedles to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84619","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}