Taking prescription medications in the right dose at the right time can directly impact a patient’s health. Conversely, missing medications or not taking them as required can have costly results.

Bioengineers may have the prescription for a $100 billion global problem: An innovative way to make time-released drugs could allow patients to receive months-worth of medicines or vaccines in a ...

HOUSTON – (April 3, 2023) – Missing crucial doses of medicines and vaccines could become a thing of the past thanks to Rice University bioengineers’ next-level technology for making time-released ...

The researchers first described their new microfabrication technique for making these hollow microparticles in a 2017 Science paper. The particles are made from PLGA, a biocompatible polymer that has ...