{"id":84928,"date":"2018-11-19T16:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T00:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/patch-delivers-medication"},"modified":"2018-11-19T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T00:42:24","slug":"patch-delivers-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/patch-delivers-medication","title":{"rendered":"Patch delivers medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patch-delivers-medication.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve already heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/body-fat-skin-patch\/52767\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cmicroneedle\u201d patches<\/a> that near-painlessly deliver medication through the skin. Well, scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have now taken the same approach to treating eye diseases. They\u2019ve developed a tiny patch laden with even tinier needles, which get poked into the eyeball.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/microneedle-eye-patch\/57305\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/microneedle-eye-patch\/57305\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve already heard about \u201cmicroneedle\u201d patches that near-painlessly deliver medication through the skin. Well, scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have now taken the same approach to treating eye diseases. They\u2019ve developed a tiny patch laden with even tinier needles, which get poked into the eyeball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84928","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}