Ultra-long-term drug delivery

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  • Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
  • Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a new drug capsule that remains in the stomach for up to two weeks after being swallowed, gradually releasing its drug payload. This type of drug delivery could potentially assist in eliminating diseases such as malaria. (Learn more: news.mit.edu/20...)
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Комментарии • 37

  • @YBlvr
    @YBlvr 8 лет назад +11

    2:10 but what about damages to the structure of the capsule? Would that lead to an overdose?

  • @zachb.4429
    @zachb.4429 8 лет назад +3

    It seems to me that the more time you prolong between a dose the higher chance there is of the patient forgetting the next time they need to take it. That is what happens to me with my allergy shots. When I was on three shots a week I had no trouble remembering; whenever I took a shot every six weeks, however, I would often forget to go.

  • @FGDDD7
    @FGDDD7 8 лет назад +5

    OK. But the burning question left unanswered is how do you ensure the capsule doesn't malfunction inducing an overdose.

    • @ionymous6733
      @ionymous6733 8 лет назад

      time release drugs
      www.google.com/#q=how+do+time+release+pills+work

  • @hayoun3
    @hayoun3 8 лет назад

    This is the real idea.

  • @rmb7247
    @rmb7247 7 лет назад

    that's a really cool idea. life happens and sometimes your running late or what have you and its hard to remember to take that antibiotic. This would be great to take one capsule and be done. but what if the pill timing fails? would there be implications for a drug that's potential is overdose? painkillers, high bp? that would scare me

  • @fpspsyduck
    @fpspsyduck 8 лет назад

    This is so cool!

  • @ayushghanghoria1673
    @ayushghanghoria1673 8 лет назад +4

    pls make technology rivew magazine for free for the poor who cannot afford subscription

    • @ongsawbee
      @ongsawbee 8 лет назад

      go download the Futurism app, it constantly uploads new info about technology

  • @umnikos
    @umnikos 8 лет назад

    I think it's better than all the other stuff that are developed for injesting...

    • @umnikos
      @umnikos 8 лет назад

      the question I have with everything they try to make me ingest:
      HOW WILL I POOP IT OUT?!??!

  • @izarscharf7845
    @izarscharf7845 7 лет назад

    what about the varying degrees of ph values from person to person ? would that need to be taken into account in the release of the drug ?

    • @nicolasmelgarejo5068
      @nicolasmelgarejo5068 7 лет назад

      In the stomach there's an average of pH, which allows the use of buffers so it it doesn't have to be a matter of concern

  • @VarjoViulu
    @VarjoViulu 8 лет назад

    What do you do when a patient develops an allergy or has other complications with the drug? How do you remove it then? You can't just puke it out because of the shape. Before you get this on the market you may need to find a quick and easy way of removal. Maybe you could use those origami robots.

    • @KuopassaTv
      @KuopassaTv 8 лет назад

      Maybe the drug capsule could be melted in the stomach with some common non-toxic stuff.

    • @umnikos
      @umnikos 8 лет назад

      Or maybe just try the drug in it's normal form before injesting that star thing. If you melt the star it will releace all of the drug left in it, resulting in an overdose

    • @VarjoViulu
      @VarjoViulu 8 лет назад +1

      +Alex Stefanov (umnikos) But that would mean that people would have to take the medication as prescribed for some time. Which, as we know, happens to be a problem.
      Many complications don't happen within the first few times you take the drug. I developed an allergy against an antibiotic when I had to take the second package. I went by with the first one for over a week without any problems. Just think about giving for example birth control pills for the whole month with this. These pills are known to cause problems, sometimes even after months of taking them. No matter what, there has to be a quick way of removal.

    • @umnikos
      @umnikos 8 лет назад

      Viura Maybe like the center of the star can have a weakpoint or something...

    • @nicolasmelgarejo5068
      @nicolasmelgarejo5068 7 лет назад

      Birth control doses are administered also as an injection, which can not be excreted. The issue here is about the way you can deliver and mantain a treatment over time. Other problems as allergies usually pop out in 2nd stage studies, and are controlled and informed for almost every kind of pharmaceutical form, meaning that such thing is not an issue, unless you are allergic to the very material of which the star-shaped capsule is

  • @xobile.123
    @xobile.123 8 лет назад

    WHERE ARE THE SYNTHS! Haha I really want to go to this institute!

  • @rishabhmahajan6607
    @rishabhmahajan6607 8 лет назад

    that's cool

  • @iknu8490
    @iknu8490 8 лет назад

    any bets on how long it will take for pharm. companies to start loading oxycodone into these

  • @rmb7247
    @rmb7247 8 лет назад

    i need this but with anadrol. all jokes aside, intelligence is more important then almost everything.

  • @njabulonxumalo6532
    @njabulonxumalo6532 8 лет назад

    Wow

  • @Designandrew
    @Designandrew 8 лет назад

    I just subscribe to this channel so I can steal your ideas and make them in china for 1/100th the cost

    • @umnikos
      @umnikos 8 лет назад

      Designandrew I know you are joking, stop

    • @AlienVale
      @AlienVale 4 года назад

      @@umnikos Actually they aren't joking

    • @umnikos
      @umnikos 4 года назад +1

      @@AlienVale Hello! These comments are from 3 years ago and I seem to have been a lot ruder on the internet at that period of time. Please excuse my past self for being both dumb and rude.

    • @AlienVale
      @AlienVale 4 года назад +1

      @@umnikos Oh damn, didn't expect you to respond so quickly AND cleanly. Honestly I was just making a tasteless joke, I have no idea if what I said was true or not. Regardless, I don't think you were rude whatsoever in your comment, if anything you were correct to assume OP was joking considering that their original comment sounds like a joke to the common human. IMHO you were not in the wrong here, Alex. I was in the wrong for making you assume that you were, in fact, being rude. Forgive me, and hopefully we can move past this unfortunate blunder of mine.

  • @X606
    @X606 8 лет назад +2

    cool, also FIRST!