Nanotechnology Could Help Ease Soldiers’ Pain
Par Redac • août 21st, 2007 • Catégorie : Biotech vue de Boston, Biotech vue de San Francisco, Les nouvelles scientifiquesTUESDAY, Aug. 14 (HealthDay News) — U.S. researchers are studying ways to use super-small nanoparticles to easily deliver painkillers to injured soldiers.
The team at the University of Michigan say they have received a $1.3 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct the study.
The goal is to develop tiny painkiller-bearing particles that can be injected with a pen-like device that can be used by injured soldiers’ comrades, or even injured soldiers themselves, on the battlefield. Ideally, the devices would provide safe and effective pain relief until a wounded soldier could receive more expert medical help.
« This proposal provides an approach to achieve sustained, safe pain control on the battlefield, » research team leader James R. Baker Jr., director of the Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences, said in a prepared statement.
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