Researchers at MIT have developed what they're hoping will be something of a pharmacy on a chip. These are wirelessly controlled and programmable microchips that can be implanted into the human body to deliver medicine, potentially replacing daily drug injections, according to MIT.
"You could literally have a pharmacy on a chip," said MIT professor Robert Langer, who worked on the project with fellow MIT professor Michael Cima. "You can do remote control delivery, you can do pulsatile drug delivery, and you can deliver multiple drugs."
The university reported that the wireless chips were tested delivering on an osteoporosis drug called Teriparatide to seven women between the ages of 65 and 70. The test reportedly showed that the chips delivered dosages comparable to injections with no adverse side effects. The chips were reportedly implanted in the patients in a doctor's office using a local anesthetic and left in the patients for four months.
The university researchers worked with scientists at MicroCHIPS Inc., a medical product company based in Waltham, Mass.
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