Swallowable injections: the octopus-inspired pill that delivers drugs with a jet

Drugs need to be delivered to the correct part of the body, and sometimes the best way to do this is using a needle. But research has shown that injestible drugs are often preferred to needles. And so a team of researchers have created a new capsule which can be swallowed, that can then inject a dose of a drug into tissue inside your body, using precisely calibrated jets.

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