An ingestible self-orienting system for oral delivery of macromolecules
A Science paper on SOMA, a pill-sized device shaped like a leopard tortoise shell so that it rights itself in the stomach and presses drug microposts into the lining.
A Science paper on SOMA, a pill-sized device shaped like a leopard tortoise shell so that it rights itself in the stomach and presses drug microposts into the lining. Using insulin in rats and pigs, it reached blood levels similar to the same microposts placed under the skin.
