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New tech could deliver time-released drugs, vaccines for months

NIBIB in the News
April 7, 2023

Bioengineers may have the prescription for a $100 billion global problem: An innovative way to make time-released drugs could allow patients to receive months-worth of medicines or vaccines in a single shot.

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Missing crucial doses of medicines and vaccines could become a thing of the past thanks to Rice University bioengineers' next-level technology for making time-released drugs. Source: Rice University/Science Daily