These promise to deliver ingredients more effectively into skin via tiny, dissolvable needles. But do they actually work?

Microneedle patches already show a great deal of promise as a painless alternative to hypodermic needles. A new one, however, could find use as a more effective means of treating serious bacterial ...

A Texas A&M team has created a tiny biodegradable microneedle patch that delivers a healing signal directly into damaged ...

About 160 million people worldwide suffer from alopecia areata. It is an autoimmune disease that causes the patient’s immune system to attack the hair follicles — the tubular microscopic organs in the ...

The team from Technion’s Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering has engineered harmless bacteria to produce ...

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Micron Biomedical has begun trialing a microneedle-based measles-rubella vaccine in children. The Atlanta-based drug delivery specialist said the phase 1/2 study is the first time a microneedle ...

An experimental pain-relieving drug delivery method for farm animals using biodegradable microneedle patches was conducted by researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station to alleviate ...