Glacial moraines inspire drug delivery system

3/10/2015

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Glacier Hub (New York, March 10) -- A recent piece of biomedical research has drawn extensively from an unexpected source, glacial moraines. Illinois researchers, led by Min Kyung Lee, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Taking a cue from nature, the researchers have created a new system to deliver micro-therapies with more precision, by controlling both the speed with which a drug is released and the spatial pattern it takes inside the body.


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This story was published March 10, 2015.