Tiny crystals deliver drugs

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New drug delivery method promises months-long effects with fewer injections

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MIT engineers develop a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain.

They inject them as a suspension of tiny crystals that self-assemble into a "depot" that could last for months or years .

This approach could be useful for delivering long-lasting contraceptives or other drugs that need to be given for extended periods of time.

It could lend itself to delivering drugs to treat HIV and tuberculosis.

"Now we're considering which indications do we go after: Is it contraception? Is it others? These are some of the things that we're starting to look into as part of the next steps toward translation to humans," Traverso says.

"This is a very simple system in that it's basically a solvent, the drug, and then you can add a little bit of bioresorbable polymer.".

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