Bee Stingers Inspire Superior And Comfortable Continuous Drug Delivery

Bee Stingers Inspire Superior And Comfortable Continuous Drug Delivery

Bee Stingers Inspire Superior And Comfortable Continuous Drug Delivery New wearable microneedle patches mimic bee stings to provide painless, long-lasting drug delivery – credit, Professor Wonku Kang from Chung-Ang University The animal kingdom has long been the source of inspiration for all manner for technologies, and now again in South Korea, where a new drug delivery method has been modeled after the bee sting. Patients who suffer from chronic conditions often require continuous injections of drugs—often quite painful and inconvenient. To address this, researchers from South Korea have developed new wearable microneedles that behave the way a bee’s stinger does. If you remember running to your mother after getting stung in the park, you may recall her pulling out the detached stinger, explaining that it keeps delivering venom even after separating from the bee’s thorax. These electrospun web microneedles (EW-MNs) developed at Chung An University, deliver drugs continuously through the …